Since the anonymous mkelkar cross-posted his claim, I take the liberty of
cross-posting my reply.
I agree that Indian scholars seem under-represented. Perhaps their
interests are elsewhere? But I cannot agree with this:
> and given the fact the Vedic tradition is the oldest surviving IE
> tradition,
The evidence seems to me and many others that Hittite is earlier, and
Mycenaean Greek is earlier. Even Latin is earlier than the written texts.
A scholar of any ethnic origin who asserts something different from the
consensus view, and cannot support it with credible arguments, is unlikely
to be published. The arguments for very early dates for Vedic have been
rehearsed again and again, and rejected again and again. So it is possible
that there is nothing racist in this at all, merely a refusal to publish
(yet again!) unsubstantiated claims.
Peter