Rig Veda
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The Unravelling of the AMT
The author argues that the textual evidence of the Rigveda, centred on Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh, gives no support to an extra-Indian Aryan homeland. He challenges Vagheesh Narasimhan’s…
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Memory outlives flesh
Answering why Indo-Aryans dominate debate despite contributing perhaps 10 to 30 per cent of northern South Asian ancestry, the author argues through St Perpetua and Polish Catholics that language and…
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The Vedic People: Their History and Geography
A recommendation of Rajesh Kochhar’s The Vedic People: Their History and Geography, called short, dense and impressive in command of scholarship, though not to be taken as gospel.
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Afghanistan’s History
The author gathers proposed etymologies for Afghanistan’s name, from ‘Upa-Gana-stan’ to Panini’s Ashvakana, and repeats a linked article’s claims that Pashtuns descend from Vedic tribes and that Hindu rulers and…
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Book Review: The RigVeda
Reviews Ralph Griffith’s translation of the Rig Veda, read through selected hymns from all ten books as a window onto the Indo-European ‘heroic age’ rather than as scripture, noting the…
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Aryan Migration and its Discontents
Recapping new genetic findings that Indo-European herders migrated into the subcontinent about 4,000 years ago, the author focuses on the politics, arguing that the Hindutva reaction to political uses of…
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A Glance at the AIT, OIT, Rig Veda..
Not a Vedic scholar, the author shares first impressions from reading selected Rig Veda hymns in Ralph Griffith’s translation as a window onto the Indo-European world, and invites readers to…
