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The main impetus behind Talageri's analysis of the Rgveda was to dispute Witzel's west to east movement of the early Indo-Aryans. As per Talageri's arrangement of the mandalas, the Indo-Aryans of the earliest mandalas were based in Punjab/Haryana region and then gradually moved westward in the...

Talageri's analysis of the Rg veda mandalas and their relative chronology depends on whether you accept his rearrangement of the 10 mandalas. Of course his argument is correct that the traditional arrangement of the mandalas(1-10) was not based on any chronology and probably he is the first...

I was merely referring to references in literary texts that talk about battles fought in the western region. Of course we'll never see a clinchinsg evidence for the existence of river Saraswathi. However we have hydrological surveys dating to mid nineteen century, which shows existence a very...

It would be premature to draw any conclusions until ASI publishes it's full report on excavation going on in Sanauli. Remember Sanauli was first excavated in mid 2000 and going by ASI's previous track record, it's still early days for a full report (field reports for excavations conducted in the...

Standard scholarship is of the opinion, though now much contested, that Vedic society, along with the attendant culture, emerged much later than IVC and hence the latter could not have influenced the former by a great degree. Since old Avestan was closely connected to the Vedic, so unlikely to...

The indo-gangetic region was ideal ground for swift horse driven Chariots and such elite weapon, such as a war Chariot, requires existence of well organized political states which emerged in the western UP and Doab region in the post Vedic period... However early Vedic texts do carry references...

The IVC practiced different ways to dispose their dead. Burial and cremation were both in vogue and the same can be seen from the archeological record. The society may have consisted of different groups which mutually exclusive cultural traits, Including burial customs. However cremation may...

ASI hardly gets enough funding to reasonably maintain the top ten heritage sites in the country and this is a country teeming with thousands of ancient,but rapidly fading,ancient heritage sites.Dwaraka and Poompuhar are probably ancient India's two greatest cities,and archaeologically speaking...

5th century artefacts discovered in West Bengal