Kelkar:
> I want to study the history of my own culture and
> civilization which i very subjectively believe is the
> greatest thing on earth.
Wow! I need to interject at this point.
It's disconcerting when subjective feelings are combined
with a desire to learn objective facts. The two just
don't go together on any scientific forum.
If you love your culture, that's wonderful and
commendable. But to love one's culture so much as to
ignore facts is doing a disservice to your culture.
Plus, you seem to mistake the fact that many Indian languages
(not all by any means) are classified as Indo-European
with the belief that this somehow belittles the greatness
of your culture. As if somehow, by having any sort of
European component in India makes your culture less than
it is.
Luckily there are many others who don't have this racist
view and recognize Indian culture for the entirety that
it is, a woven _masala_ of cultures that owes its greatness
to contributions not just natively but also from West,
East, North and South. In fact, it turns out that we
can say this about every culture on the planet!
No culture develops in a bubble nor does that self-evident
fact make a culture less than it is. Your subjective
feelings about your culture might be relevant to you
but are logically irrelevant in a debate on this forum
about archaeological or linguistic facts.
> Therefore why i am here?
Only you can answer that. If it is to convince all of us
that Indian culture and language developped in a bubble,
your time would be well-suited elsewhere.
= gLeN