Re: India first (Was: Etruscans)

 ***GK: This is really the point. Cybalist is not a
forum for the discussion of substantive religious
issues as such, and certainly not in religious terms.
"India first" is religion not science. There is a huge
amount of proper discussion about the scientific
issues involved as to the origin of PIE in the
cybalist archives, and the insuperable defects of
Indo-centrism in this regard. Kishore Patnaik would be
well advised to spend some time foraging there instead
of wasting our time with his dogmas.****


I may clarify that I do not subscribe to India first- every thing does not come out of India.

I only try to explain the known archeological and other evidence on the basis of Puranas, which are not taken into  account at all by most of the scholars. 
That I am a Hindu has got nothing to do with since most of the names and places are secular and have no religious significance- for eg., what religious significance do the Mayans have? Not much. That they originated in India or East Africa will have no bearing on the religious dogma.  Or that they are depicted as bad people in religion  also have no meaning to  the  efforts to locate them .    These are  two mutually exclusive things.

Fitting things into Biblical chronology is not the same as reading Biblical genealogies.  Same way, I am reading the Puranic genealogies and do not take the longish years described to the number of years of reign   this king or  life span o that sage into consideration. Those years have a different significance and unless we have the key to convert them into the real figures of years, they are of no use to the serious scholarly study of scriptural genealogies.

kishore patnaik