THIRD WAVE WEST 2: FROM LANGUAGE TO THOUGHT
The third wave 5000 years ago carried mathematics, horse training skills as well as names of deities, sacred symbols like svasti, and practices like yoga and meditation, to West Asia and Europe. This was accompanied More...
INDO-EUROPEANS 3: NOAH’S ANIMALS MARCH
Favorable climate and abundant water made India and Southeast Asia a hothouse for the domestication of plants and animals. The second wave of Indo-Europeans carried these into Eurasia and Europe. The controversy More...
The collapse of the Aryan Invasion Theory
There is widespread misconception in India that all Western scholars support the Aryan invasion theory. Actually, it is minority view while the few still interested in ancient India have given up the AIT. Here is More...
Beyond the Aryan Invasion – Look East and South
Column by NS Rajaram India’s ties with East and Southeast Asia have been much closer than with Central Asia or Eurasia. Recent findings suggest the exact opposite of AI — South and Southeast Asia made a major More...
Romila Thapar and the Study of Ancient India 2: History as propaganda
Column by Dilip K Chakrabarti (Edited with comments by N.S. Rajaram, Contributing Editor. This continues Professor Dilip Chakrabarti’s analysis of the motives and methodology of Romila Thapar and her colleagues.) Diluting More...
Vedic Sanskrit on Harappan seals
"The Deciphered Indus Script" by N Jha and N S Rajaram Ever since its discovery in 1921 the Harappan civilisation (also called Indus Valley civilisation) has been studied extensively by archaeologists, More...
Looking beyond the Indus Script: Story of Vedic Harappans
A decade since Jha and Rajaram presented their findings, there have been significant developments that show that the script was one piece of a larger picture that connects Harappan archaeology to the Vedic literature, More...
Determining the Age of Saraswat Community
Who are Saraswats? In India, there are at least five Brahmin communities who claim themselves as ‘Saraswat Brahmins’, including: Gaud Saraswat Brahmins, Chitrapur Saraswats, Rajapur/Bhalavalikar Saraswat Brahmins, More...
Discovering the Real India
How Deep are the Roots of Indian Civilization? Archaeology Answers | Author: BB Lal | Publisher: Aryan Books International | Price: Rs 390 By Sandhya Jain Barely seven years after Prof BB Lal penned The Sarasvati More...
Harappan civilization IS Vedic civilization
Majority of sites belonging to Indus Valley civilization, which can be better known as Indus-Sarasvati civilization, are concentrated along the course of the now dry Sarasvati River, situated east of the River Indus. More...
