Re: [tied] Vedic literature and the Gulf of Cambay discovery

From: P&G
Message: 13883
Date: 2002-06-18

>Vedic literature and the recent find of a submerged city in the Gulf of
Cambay,

Unfortunately the evidence for this "city" comes only from Indian scholars
with a reputation for - and interest in - these fairly extreme "India first"
ideas. They may be right, or they be wrong, but it is no surprise that
other scholars are a little sceptical, because of the source. If it had
been scholars who were against these early-India origins who published this
claim, then it might be listened to more closely.

We ordinary folk just wait for further evidence. The extraordinary
improbability of such a city, and the bias of its "founders", along with
other extreme claims by some of them, makes us understandably cautious.

Peter