Re: For MKelkar, Kishore and all those other anti-linguists

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mkelkar2003" <swatimkelkar@...> wrote:

>
> Forget Miller. No one has asked an Ostler to resign even after
> writing this in 2005 CE and not 1805 CE
>
> "There is also some cultural evidence in the Rig Veda which
> suggests how the invading Aryans felt they differed from the
> peoples, the dasa and dasyu, their language came to dominate,
> for they same has having darker skins, `black of origin,
> krsnayonih (Rig Veda, ii.20.7). This fits with the Sanskrit
> word used traditionally for the four-fold division into social
> castes, Brahman~Kshatriya~Vasiya~Sudra, namely varna, `colour'
> (Ostler 2005, p. 197, 564)."

Why in the world would that call for Ostler's resignation?

The mere claim, even if mistaken, that the ancient Aryans were
light complexioned and bigoted against darker people whom they
encountered, does not by itself indicate that the claimant is
a proponent of white racism himself.

David