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- A number of scholars also have
come to reject the Aryan invasion/migration theory and also to
question the Aryan-Dravidian divide. Some of them have put back
the date of the Rig Veda to the tenth millennium B.C. instead of
the standard second. In this context, the well-known
archaeologist, Dr.S.R.Rao, has established fairly conclusively
that the so- called Indus Valley civilization was Vedic and not
pre-Vedic and that it covered at least 1.5 million sq. km of
territory. This new turn of events has an important
bearing on our understanding of the history of Iran as well and,
consequently, of Indian Islam, because Islam as a civilization
came to us via Iran and through the medium of the Persian
language and Persian or Persianized poets, Sufis and others.
Stuart H. Blackburn and A.K.
Ramanujan (eds.), Another Harmony: New Essays on the Folklore of
India, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1986, p. 14.
Anncharlott Eschmann, Hermann
Kulke and Gaya Charan Tripathi (eds)., The Cult of Jagannath and
the Regional Tradition of Orissa, Manohar Books, New Delhi,
1986, p. xv.
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