Richard Foltz
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As India Saffronises, 9 Questions on her Za’faran sister (IranZamin) with Professor Foltz-
Starting from the etymology of saffron, the author laments the loss of India’s Islamicate and Persianate heritage as the country saffronises, with Urdu left to the Hindu majority’s mercy. He…
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Questions for Professor Foltz
A call for reader questions to put in writing to Professor Richard Foltz, an Iranic studies specialist, after the author’s live blog of his talk, with early Aryans as the…
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From Sintashta to Samarkand
Live notes from Professor Richard Foltz’s Cambridge lecture on Sintashta and Samarkand. They record his claims that Sintashta remains underlie Vedic ritual, that Indo-Iranians called themselves Arya, and that Bactria-Margiana…
