You already know what you are ready to believe and to dismiss.
That's your problem.
This is a stick the scholars were beating the chauvinistic nationalists for long, accusing them to be prejudiced, trying to thrust pre conceived notions as scientific theories. You certainly can't accuse me of this, my biases are clear - . I am not steadfast about even the homeland of Aryans. But I am 'preconceived" about the Indian chronology. But this is with reason
For eg., if you consider the 3102 bce dating of MBh, it is not something that is canvassed by liturgical sources but by living tradition, which is uniform all over India and a scientist like Aryabhat has attested this date in his celebrated work ' Aryabhattiya maha samhita' Do you and I know more than an astrogrpher?
Indology started in 1583 with Thomas Stephen.
I believe it's hard to defend the thesis that 425 years of linguistic work
on Sanscrit can be wiped aside.
Any approach that starts with the premiss previous studies about Indic have
to be thrown away is anti-science.
Even if you do not like previous studies, you will never escape the issue of
explaining what is not satisfactory and you won't escape being compared with
the bulk of existing works that are considered well-establised references.
I think the current root theory of PIE is inadequate.
I'm saying a more seriously radical study is necessary.
I know where to emend the whole thing and how to use Pokorny or LIV.
Arnaud
Yes, this is my problem. - I am not a professional. Even if I catch something as wrong in lings,. I am not good nor have the formal training ot present the same, to the applause of the scholars. Yet, thanks to all, I am still heard. And in time, I know my voice will be considered as sensible and scientific.
Why ?
I would n;t know. Ask Kosambi. But I am sure I have a point there.
This is a very prejudiced way of looking at Telugu.
Sanscrit is in the strong powerful diglottic position.
This has nothing to do with primitive or not.
I did not understand that. I am stating a factual position of the language. what is prejudiced in that? More over, what is this bilingual position of skt?
As a Telugu, don't you have an atavistic urging to
drive those pesky Indo-Europeans back over the Khyber
Pass?
You have mistaken me for a Dravidian nationalist, right? well, I am not one :P
Kishore patnaik
Kishore patnaik