![]() It began in 1786 when William Jones, using historical linguistics, proved that Sanskrit, Persian, Greek, Celtic and Latin had descended from a common Indo-European language. Various experts from comparative philology, archaeology and history have contributed to the Aryan debate. ![]() ![]() Trautmann has collected 18 articles which show the evolution of this debate in the last two and a half centuries. In this volume, part of the OUP series ‘Debates in Indian History and Society’, Thomas R. While the Marxists go for the former view, the proponents of Hindutva prefer the second. The controversy about whether the Aryans were foreigners who destroyed the Dravidian Indus Valley Civilization or whether they were indigenous inhabitants of India, who were the founding fathers of both the Indus and the subsequent Vedic civilizations, has become a highly politicized issue. ![]()
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