| How I Became A Hindu My Discover Of Vedic Dharma |
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| Books By David Frawley |
| Ancient India: Myth Of The Aryan Invasion | |
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World Association for Vedic Scholars (WAVES) An alliance of scholars arose in America seeking to promote the new view of ancient India. It gave rise to the World Association of Vedic Studies (WAVES), which held its first conference in Atlanta in Oct. 1996. James Schaffer of Case Western University, one of the first major Western archaeologists to reject the Aryan Invasion theory, came and spoke. B.B. Lal, one of India’s leading archaeologists was there as well, along with many of the important speakers and authorities in the field. A second conference was held in 1998 summer in Los Angeles that continued these activities, which B.B. Lal also attended. There I had an opportunity to get to know Lal better. The leftists had recently targeted Lal as a scholar with a Hindu bias, whose work should therefore be rejected on principle. Lal, however, was a true scholar and archaeologist, relying on objective evidence and years of experience. He was a warm and friendly person with genuine spiritual interests as well as academic objectivity. He was another case of people maligned simply because they were in the way of leftist political interests. However, the leftists were not able to really challenge him on an historical and archaeological basis because his work was solid and rational in its approach.
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