| The Myth Of Aryan Invasion Of India |
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| Books By David Frawley |
| INDIAN CIVILIZATION, AN INDEGENOUS DEVELOPMENT | |
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| Despite Wheeler's comments, it is
difficult to see what is particularly non-Aryan about the Indus Valley
civilization.(*48) Renfrew suggests that the Indus Valley civilization was in fact Indo-Aryan: This hypothesis that early Indo-European languages were spoken in north India with Pakistan and on the Iranian plateau at the sixth millennium BC has the merit of harmonizing symmetrically with the theory for the origin of the Indo-European languages in Europe. It also emphasizes the continuity in the Indus Valley and adjacent areas from the early Neolithic through to the floret of the Indus Valley civilization.(*49) In addition, it does not mean that the Rig Veda dates from the Harappan era. Harappan culture resembles that of the Yajur Veda and the Brahmanas, or the later Vedic era. If anything the Rig Veda appears to reflect the pre-Indus period in India, when the Sarasvati river was more prominent. 46, 47, 48, 49. C. Renfrew, ARCHAEOLOGY AND LANGUAGE (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987), pp. 182, 188, 190, 196.
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