Aryan and non-Aryan in South Asia : evidence, interpretation, and ideology

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Aryan and non-Aryan in South Asia : evidence, interpretation, and ideology

edited by Johannes Bronkhorst, Madhav M. Deshpande

Manohar, 2012

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First published Opera Minora by Harvard Oriental series, 1999 -- T.p.verso

Published 2012 in India by arrangement with and permission of Harvard Oriental series

Includes bibliographical references

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The volume deals with the history of the concept of Arya and Aryans in East and West, with the linguistic, textual and archaeological evidence in South Asia and beyond. The terms Aryan and Non-Aryan, corresponding to Sanskrit arya and anarya, can readily be shown that among the literary traditions indigenous to South Asia have always evoked strong responses, both positive and negative, as they continue to do even today; but it can also be shown that while they designate a boundary that is in some sense an ethnic one in the Veda, in other literatures the distinction has a religious or moral character. There have been reconsiderations and reinterpretations of the terms within and outside of the academy. There is on the one hand the established view of a migration of Aryans into South Asia; on the other hand there are new voices calling the whole endeavour fanciful, motivated by colonialism, "Orientalism", nationalism, or something else. What is startling is that the criticism of the status quo comes from completely different directions.

Table of Contents

  • Preface (by Johannes Bronkhorst & Madhav Desphande)
  • Out of India? The linguistic evidence by Hans Heinrich Hock
  • Hinduism as Indo-European: Cultural comparativism and political sensitivities by Nicholas J. Allen
  • Is there an inner conflict of tradition? by Johannes Bronkhorst
  • Linguistic substrata and the indigenous Aryan debate by Edwin F. Bryant
  • Whose goddess? Kali as cultural champion in Kerala by Sarah L. Caldwell
  • What to do with the Anaryas?
  • Dharmic discourses of inclusion and exclusion by Madhav M. Deshpande
  • Noble lineage and august demeanor: Religious and social meanings of Aryan virtue by Luis Gomez
  • Through a glass darkly: Modern racial interpretations vs. textual and general prehistoric evidence on arya and dasa/dasyu in Vedic society by Hans Heinrich Hock
  • The iconography and cult of Kutticcattan by Asko Parpola
  • Does archaeology hold the answers? by Shereen F. Ratnagar
  • Migration, philology and South Asian archaeology by Jim G. Schaffer & Diane A. Lichtenstein
  • Revisiting the Arya-Samaj movement by Pashaura Singh
  • Constructing the racial theory of Indian civilization by Thomas R. Trautmann
  • A note on Aryamans social and cosmic setting by Gernot L. Windfuhr
  • Aryan and non-Aryan names in Vedic India: Data for the linguistic situation, c. 1900-500 BC. ny Michael Witzel
  • Participants and their addresses

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