The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture by Edwin Bryant

Professor of Hinduism Edwin Bryant
Oxford University Press, USA
 9780195169478
0-19-516947-6

Western scholars have argued that Indian civilization was the joint product of an invading Indo-European people--the "Indo-Aryans"--and indigenous non-Indo European peoples. Although Indian scholars reject.

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this European reconstruction of their country's history, Western scholarship gives little heed to their argument. In this book, Edwin Bryant explores the nature and origins of this fascinating debate.