This new book has been recently published, with papers by distinguished scholars and archaeologists, and also by one who is not so distinguished, the author of this blog. It includes some famous Indian archaeologists like R.S. Bisht and the late S.R. Rao (it is dedicated to his memory), American archaeologists like Kenoyer, Shaffer and Lichtenstein, and some scholars of various origins particularly engaged in the debate about the Aryan presence in India: Kazanas, Robin Bradley Kar, Michel Danino and Talageri. My article builds a chronology of Epic-Puranic genealogies of kings according to Pargiter's lists and compares the result with the Vedic and Epic sources and the archaeological data. I had already developed some ideas, but the final result has surprised me for the consistency and richness of the comparison... the only regret is that I could not modify the part about the climatic change and the Sarasvatī river because it was already too late for the editing when I realized that the tectonic theory of the Sutlej is discarded and the change in the rainfall is promoted... I hope that I can do some changes in a future edition!
You can find the book with contents at this link: http://www.dkprintworld.com/product-detail.php?pid=1280857371.
Yes A book to read Must! BTW You may know this what is Bryants main View on The presence of Aryans in SC Asia Currently?
ReplyDelete'' the only regret is that I could not modify the part about the climatic change and the Sarasvatī river because it was already too late for the editing when I realized that the tectonic theory of the Sutlej is discarded and the change in the rainfall is promoted... I hope that I can do some changes in a future edition!''
Does the Time frame gets changed of the weakening of Sarasvati?
Thank you Nirjhar, I don't know which is the present view of Bryant, his last main work is a translation of the Yoga Sutras, see his website: http://www.edwinbryant.org/
ReplyDeleteThe weakening of Sarasvati in the new frame has two phases: one with the loss of a Himalayan river more than 10000 years ago, and one with the diminishing of rains around 2000 BC... see my post of 2012 on the Paris conference...