Indo-Aryan controversy evidence and inference in Indian history

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Culture change during the late Harappan period at Harappa : new insights on Vedic Aryan issues / Jonathan Mark Kenoyer -- Aryan invasion of India : perpetuation of a myth / B.B. Lal -- South Asian archaeology and the myth of Indo-Aryan invasions / Jim G. Schaffer and Diane A. Lichtenstein -- The cultural counterparts to Proto-Indo-European, Proto-Uralic and Proto-Aryan : matching the dispersal and contact patterns in the linguistic and archaeological record / Asko Parpola and Christian Carpelan -- Archaeology and language : the case of the Bronze Age Indo-Iranians / C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky -- The date of the Rigveda and the Aryan migration (fresh linguistic evidence) / Satya Swarup Misra -- Linguistic aspects of the Aryan non-invasion theory / Koenraad Elst -- Philology and the historical interpretation of the Vedic texts / Hans Henrich Hock -- Vedic astronomy and early Indian chronology / Subash Kak -- The textual evidence : the Rigveda as a source of Indo-European history / Shrikant Talageri -- Indocentrism : autochthonous visions of ancient India / Michael Witzel -- Aryan origins : arguments from 19th century Maharashtra / Madhav M. Deshpande -- Aryan past and post-colonial present : the polemics and politics of indigenous Aryanism / Lars Martin Fosse.