Comprehensive study of the ôRgveda, Hindu canonical work.

The Rigveda: A historical analysis

Shrikant G. Talageri

Religion & Spirituality

Aditya Prakashan

By analyzing the ancient texts in full detail, this book establishes the relative chronology of the Rigveda vis-à-vis the Avesta and the Mitanni inscriptions; the geography of the Rigveda; the internal chronology of the (different parts of) the Rigveda; and, finally, the first steps in the establishment of the absolute chronology of the Rigveda, i.e. the actual point of time BCE when the hymns of the text were composed. Moroever, it presents linguistic evidence for the Indian Homeland hypothesis as the only one that explains all the linguistic problems arising in the course of the quest for the Original Homeland. While the beginnings of the history of the Egyptian and the Mesopotamian Civilizations are known to lie at least as far back as the fourth millennium BCE on the basis of detailed decipherable and deciphered records, the beginnings of Indian Civilization as we know it could not really be traced far earlier than the Ashokan inscriptions of the third century BCE. The earlier rec

Rigveda and the Avesta: The Final Evidence

Aditya Prakashan,India

Language: English 
Pages: 544\nAbout the Book\nShrikant Talageri is one of those scholars who have come forward in recent years to challenge the colonial-missionary model imposed on world history during the era of Western-Christian imperialism. In his earlier book, The AryanInvasion Theory: A Reappraisal, he had conclusively established that India was the original homeland of the Indo-European family of languages. In the present volume, he has confirmed equally emphatically that India was also the original homeland not only of the lndo-Aryans but also of the Indo-Iranians and the Indo- Europeans.\nThe Rigveda is the oldest and most important source of material for Indian, Indo-Aryan, and even Indo-European history. It is a text which has been part of a hoary and widespread living tradition thousands of years old. Naturally, a text which has remained alive, as part of a living tradition, for so long cannot and should not be analysed without reference to what that tradition has to say about it.\nBut modern scholars have chosen to interpret the Rigveda in its historical context, solely on the basis of an extraneous linguistic theory, bolstered by stray sentences hunted out of the Rigveda and interpreted out of context, and totally without reference to certain indispensable and unassailable traditional information contained in certain basic texts. Tills is how the theory of an Aryan invasion of India in the early second millennium BC has been propounded and continues to be propped up, even though it finds no support whatsoever either in archaeology, or in literature, or in the racial-ethnical composition of India.\nShrikant

The Rigveda: A Historical Analysis

Language: English Pages: 220 About The Book Since the early nineties, there has been intense and furious debate regarding the AIT or "Aryan Invasion Theory", which claims that a group of people speaking Indo-European ("Aryan") languages entered India sometime in the second millennium BCE and established their language, religion and culture all over North India. Throughout its history, the debate was based on three academic disciplines: Linguistics, Archaeology and Textual/ Inscriptional Data. However, the weight of the evidence in these three fields now increasingly confirms the rival theory, the OIT or "Out-of-India Theory" which sees India as the Original Homeland of these languages. So the proponents of the AIT have recently abandoned these three fields and have started falling back on a totally new field of study: Genetics. The spokesperson for the AIT since the last few years is one Tony Joseph, through his articles in The Hindu. Tony Joseph has now written a full-fledged volume titled "Early Indians" (262 pp), published by Juggernaut books, New Delhi, 2018. Since the book is the subject of a full-fledged systematic and intense media campaign, this present work analyses the whole "genetic" case for the AIT as per this book by Tony Joseph, and demonstrates how Genetics is irrelevant to the problem of the ancient history of the Indo-European languages. About The Author The writer, Shrikant G. Talageri, is the foremost proponent of the OIT or "Out-of-India Theory" through his many articles and blogs on the subject, and primarily his three published books on the subject: The Aryan Invasion Theory and Indian Nationalism (1993), The Rigveda - A Historical Analysis (2000), and The Rigveda and the Avesta - The Final Evidence (2008). Preface The unique

Genetics and the Aryan debate: "Early Indians" Tony Joseph's latest assault, preface by Koenraad Elst

Voice of India, New Delhi

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The Rigveda: A historical analysis

Rigveda and the Avesta: The Final Evidence

The Rigveda: A Historical Analysis

Genetics and the Aryan debate: "Early Indians" Tony Joseph's latest assault, preface by Koenraad Elst