Indic Language Families and Indo-European – 2
[contextly_sidebar id=”Bbhqaghf0GR3eKTNY7wybwC50tDymL5z”] Aryan and Dravidian It was Bishop Caldwell (1875) who suggested that the South Indian languages of Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, and Telugu formed More...
Indic Language Families and Indo-European – 1
As the science of language, historical linguistics in the early 19th century saw itself as providing a framework for studying the history and relationships of languages in the same manner as biology describes the More...
Indian History in Perspective – 3 : How India Culturalized the World
[contextly_sidebar id=”hMH0TYXI2vzoZgmgYKpOcumlFEl9LJ7s”] In the previous part, we had discussed how Indians had civilized the world. We had talked about how the R1a1a haplogroup (a genetic marker), More...
Indian History in Perspective – 2 : How India Civilized the World
[contextly_sidebar id=”EY9v9asfL16rGvMD95vXlfvw0QQiRTEU”] In the previous part we had discussed how Indians had peopled and colonized the world. We had started out by pointing out the flaws of teaching More...
Propagandizing the Aryan Invasion Debate: A Rebuttal to Tony Joseph
On 16 June 2017, an article appeared on the Hindu titled “How genetics is settling the Aryan migration debate” by Tony Joseph. This article claims that the question of the origin of the Indo-Aryan people has More...
Indian History in Perspective- 1: How India Colonized the World
India is an ancient land. Yet most of our history books do not do any justice to the antiquity of our motherland and focus merely on the political history, especially of the last 1,000 years. Pre-history is considered More...
Aryan debate keeps on attracting silly politicos: A response to Shoaib Daniyal
In June 2015, Scroll.in published an article by Shoaib Daniyal on the Aryan debate, wherein he ridiculed the Out of India theory by comparing it with Intelligent Design or a Flat Earth Hypothesis. Here is a brief More...
Nothing to celebrate about Periyar
Today is the 135th birth anniversary of Erode Venkata Ramaswamy Naicker, or as he is affectionately called Periyar (the Great Man). In the birth anniversaries of great men who are no longer with us, it is the More...