Originally Posted by
Araloka
Its ironic people get so upset about the "Aryan Invasion Theory" when it actually comes from the Vedas themselves. Then people call those who accept it 'racist' and accuse them of trying to claim Vedic heritage belongs to someone else, then they go around and do the exact thing they are claiming: They will say India is the font of all civilization, culture, knowledge and Indo-European languages all came from India (which is simply balderdash) to make themselves feel superior.
Random!
Originally Posted by
Araloka
And no one can accuse me of being 'racist' for accepting the AIT because I am both white and Indian, I have ancestry in almost EVERY Indo-European ethnic group from Iceland to India...
Talk about more random!
Originally Posted by
Twilightdance
Of all the jubilant voices celebrating Wendy's book being recycled back to pulp, how many have actually taken the pain to read it and form an independent opinion (if that is actually possible)? Let me take a guess - Zero? No one?
It's an okay book. It's definitely not as good as her Implied Spider, which was much shorter and more pronounced. As far as I know, Jaskaran and I are probably the only ones on here that have read The Hindus.
Instead, I would recommend --
"Hinduism: Past and Present" by Axel Michaels, "Indian Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction" by Sue Hamilton, "Aryans and British India" by Thomas R. Trautmann, "India: Brief History of a Civilization" by Thomas R. Trautmann, "Invading the Sacred: An Analysis of Hinduism Studies in America" by Antonio de Nicolas and Krishnan Ramaswamy, and "Aryan Idols: Indo-European Mythology as Ideology and Science" by Stefan Arvidsson.
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