From: naga_ganesan@...
Message: 8977
Date: 2001-09-03
> Piotr:
> ---
> [...] there are a number of eminent Indian historians
> who reject Aryan indigenism -- not because it is the
> cornerstone of the fundamentalist interpretation of
> Indian history but because they find it untenable by
> scholarly standards.
> ---
--- In INDOLOGY@..., Michael Witzel <witzel@...> wrote:
I am glad to announce a new issue of the
ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF VEDIC STUDIES (EJVS)
Vol. 7 (2001), issue 3 (May 25)
ARTICLE :
Michael Witzel
Autochthonous Aryans?
The Evidence from Old Indian and Iranian Texts.
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/EJVS-7-3.htm
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INTRODUCTION
§1. Terminology
§ 2. Texts
§ 3. Dates
§4. Indo-Aryans in the RV
§5. Irano-Aryans in the Avesta
§6. The Indo-Iranians
§7. An ''Aryan'' Race?
§8. Immigration
§9. Remembrance of immigration
§10. Linguistic and cultural acculturation
THE AUTOCHTHONOUS ARYAN THEORY
§ 11. The ''Aryan Invasion'' and the "Out of India" theories
LANGUAGE
§12. Vedic, Iranian and Indo-European
§13. Absence of Indian influences in Indo-Iranian
§14. Date of Indo-Aryan innovations
§15. Absence of retroflexes in Iranian
§16. Absence of 'Indian' words in Iranian
§17. Indo-European words in Indo-Iranian; Indo-European archaisms vs.
Indian innovations
§18. Absence of Indian influence in Mitanni Indo-Aryan
Summary: Linguistics
CHRONOLOGY
§19. Lack of agreement of autochthonous data with the rest of the
historical evidence: dating of kings & teachers
ARCHAEOLOGY
§20. Archaeology and texts
§21. RV and the Indus civilization: horses and chariots
§22. Absence of towns in the RV
§23. Absence wheat and rice in the RV
§24. RV class society and the Indus civilization
§25. The SarasvatI and dating of the RV and the brAhmaNas
§26. Harappan fire rituals?
§27. Cultural continuity: pottery and the Indus script
VEDIC TEXTS AND SCIENCE
§28. The ''astronomical code of the RV''
§29. Astronomy: the equinoxes in ZB
§30. Astronomy: jyotiSa vedAGga and the solstices
§31. Geometry: zulba sUtras
SUMMARY
§32. The autochthonous theory
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The preliminary (email) version is now also available at my website
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/EJVS-7-3.htm
It will be put on the EJVS website in the next few days
http://nautilus.shore.net/~india/ejvs/
In the next few weeks a version with proper diacritics (pdf etc.)
will follow.
Cheers, MW
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Michael Witzel
Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies, Harvard University
2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge MA 02138, USA
ph. 1- 617-496 2990 (also messages)
home page: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/mwpage.htm
Elect. Journ. of Vedic Studies: http://nautilus.shore.net/~india/ejvs/
--- End forwarded message ---
The above mentioned article is also available as a .pdf file:
http://nautilus.shore.net/~india/ejvs/ejvs0703/ejvs0703article.pdf
and
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/EJVS-7-3.pdf
Regards,
N. Ganesan