Almost NO Indian or Iranian scholars active in IE linguistics
Inspite of the follwing pronuncement by Sir William Jones, considered
to be one of the pillars of IE linguistics
"The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful
structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin,
and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them
a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of
grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong
indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without
believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps,
no longer exists: there is a similar reason, though not quite so
forcible, for supposing that both the Gothic and the Celtic, though
blended with a very different idiom, had the same origin with the
Sanskrit; and the old Persian might be added to the same family, if
this were the place for discussing any question concerning the
antiquities of Persia."
and given the fact the Vedic tradition is the oldest surviving IE
tradition, with the Iranians not far behind, there are NO Indian or
Iranian scholars listed on the IE linguistic webpage maintained by
Univ Texas Austin.
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Over last thirty years only ONE Indian author (G. D. Kumar) and NO
Iranian authors, that I could recognize, have contributed to the
Journal of Indo European Studies!