"As data accumulate to support cultural continuity in south Asian prehistoric and historic periods, a considerable restructuring of existing interpretive paradigms must take place. We reject most strongly the simplistic historical interpretations, which date back to the eighteenth century, that continue to be imposed on South Asian culture history. Surely, as South Asian studies approaches the twenty-first century, it is time to describe emerging data objectively rather than perpetuate interpretations without regard to the data archaeologists have worked so hard to reveal."

Migration, Philology and South Asian Archaeology in Aryan and Non-Aryan in South Asia I learned that the academic realm is not so much a place of objective study as a forum for various vested interests. Academic generally have little respect for spiritual traditions. They assume authority for spiritual  subjects beyond their intellectual capacity. They use their positions to further their own political and cultural agendas, often unaware of  what they themselves are doing! In American schools, religions like  Hinduism, if they are examined at all, are dissected from a social, political or economic angle as mere cultural phenomena. There is little direct study, much less experience of the yogic and Vedantic teachings behind the tradition. Such is our modern preoccupation with the  outer aspect of life that it reduces spirituality to a purely external affair. No wonder we don't give much credit to a spiritual culture like India.

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