Re: Fwd: Aryans - Summarizing Asko Parpola's views

From: markodegard@...
Message: 11014
Date: 2001-11-05

--- In cybalist@..., vishalagarwal@... wrote:
> --- In IndianCivilization@..., vishalagarwal@... wrote:
> Below, I append a summary of Parpola's views on AIT. The summary is
> present in his own work (see reference) and as the listmembers will
> note (even those who have an indepth knowledge of his writings),
they
> are a combination of a multiple invasions, fantasy, conspiracy
> theories and plain leaps of faith.
>
> Vishal

Unless I've misread this, this is an extreme (even absurd) statement.
Nothing of what I've read says he holds anything other than a pretty
conventional view of how Indic got to India, i.e., from Central Asia
via Afganistan.

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