before reading this I was pretty convinced that there was no way that an out of India theory, or a native aryan theory was untenable.
/of the way through the book I became convinced that there was actually substantial good evidence for the position, Then by the time I finished it I thought that the evidence was again fairly shaky, though not as weak as I had thought before reading it.
Basically, the evidence used in the first third of the book is just much stronger, It relies on the presence or absence of words in certain texts, the occurrence of astronomical events, and archeological evidence, the culmination of which places the writing of the Vedas much earlier than is commonly thought, and implies that those who constructed the Indus Valley civilization arose after the Aryans had entered India and so, even in the native aryan theory, of course the Aryans have to enter India at some point, as they aren't aboriginal austronesians.
Fine. So, there are some good reasons to deny the migration of Aryans from central asia at aroundBC, and place the migration much earlier at likeBC.
Interesting. I should note though, that even in this section it seemed like he had his conclusion established before he makes the argument.
The second set of evidence is a bit weaker, but still fairly strong, This consists of reference to a trading state called Meluha by the Sumerians, and which the author posits represent the Mlecchas in Sanskrit literature.
This is supposed to be the Indus Valley civilization, which is allegedly a western Prakrit speaking culture with an Aryan substratum but substantial Iranian, Semitic, and other influences, much like later Gandharan civilization and to a lesser degree modern Pakistani and Afghan civilizations.
Then the last section is just weak evidence, Its looking for words in various languages which sound similar to words in other languages, He could be right about it, but without a lot of textual evidence documenting the entire transformation process, it is weak evidence.
I wish he hadnt included it, because it makes the whole book much weaker, but he had to include it because transmission of these words is the
main centerpiece of his argument and the title of his book.
After reading it, I still think that the fact that Aryans migrated out of central asia at some point is the most likely option.
Even the author doesnt deny that, he just places it much earlier, But now I genuinely don't know which is the more likely that the Indus Valley Civilization was Aryan, or nonAryan, More research is required on my part, Kaikhosru Dadhaboy K. D. Sethna was an Indian poet, scholar, writer, philosopher, and cultural critic, He published thanbooks. He is also known as Amal Kiran, Sethna studied at Bombay University and was one of Sri Aurobindos earliest disciples, arriving at the Sri Aurobindos ashram in, at age, to take up the path of Integral Yoga under Sri Aurobindo and Mirra Alfassa.
He was given the name Amal Kiran, or Clear Ray, by Sri Aurobindo in, His book of poems Inmost Beauty was published at, Inhe was a founding editor of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram journal Mother India, which he edited for almostyears, He retired in, after a career spanningyears, Sethna was born a Parsi Zoroastrian, but discontinued its Kaikhosru Dadhaboy K, D. Sethna was an Indian poet, scholar, writer, philosopher, and cultural critic, He published thanbooks. He is also known as Amal Kiran, Sethna studied at Bombay University and was one of Sri Aurobindo's earliest disciples, arriving at the Sri Aurobindo's ashram in, at age, to take up the path of Integral Yoga under Sri Aurobindo and Mirra Alfassa.
He was given the name Amal Kiran, or "Clear Ray," by Sri Aurobindo in, His book of poems Inmost Beauty was published at, Inhe was a founding editor of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram journal Mother India, which he edited for almostyears, He retired in, after a career spanningyears, Sethna was born a Parsi Zoroastrian, but discontinued its practice after becoming a disciple of Sri Aurobindo, He celebrated histh birthday in, At the time of his death, at the age of, he was one of the world's oldest living authors, sitelink.