> http://bharatkalyan97.blogspot.in/2012/07/indo-aryan-no-indian-langua...

> The recent discussion article of Nicholas Kazanas
> http://bharatkalyan97.blogspot.in/2012/07/semantics-of-indo-aryan-con... Semantics of Indo-Aryan Controversy -- Dr. Nicholas Kazanas' Article,
> comments and response (July 2012) -- takes us back to the discussions
> sought to be promoted by Edwin Bryant and Laurie Patton who edited a
> 535-page book titled 'Indo-Aryan Controversy - Evidence and inference in
> Indian History' (2005, Routledge). The views of Bryant and Patton can be
> summarised from the following two quotes:

> Quote 1: "To conclude the discussion of the data, then, while the horse
> and chariotevidence cannot be simply brushed aside, it will only be the
> decipherment of thescript that will prove decisive in this whole issue to
> the satisfaction of most scholars,since the recent discovery suggests that
> the script could go back to 3500 BCE (providing, of course, that it
> encapsulates the same language throughout). If itturns out to be a language
> other than Indo-Aryan, then obviously the Indigenist position need no
> longer detain the consideration of Indologists or serious scholarsof
> ancient history. In my opinion, this eventuality will be the only
> development that will convince a large number of scholars that the Aryans
> were, indeed, immigrants into India. On the other hand, an Indo-Aryan
> decipherment will radicallyalter the entire Indo-European homeland-locating
> landscape, not just the proto-history of the subcontinent. If it is
> Indo-Aryan, everything  will need to be recon-sidered   –  Indo-Aryans,
> Indo-Iranians, and Indo-Europeans. We can note thatVentris, the decipherer
> of Linear B script from Crete, was amazed to see Greek emerge from Linear B
> –  he was expecting to see a pre-Indo-European language,the consensus
> gentium of his day. The answer, after all is said and done, is writtenon
> the seals. If it is not Indo-Aryan, then the standard Migrationist scenario
> willlikely remain an excellent rendition of events which can always be
> updated and improved as new evidence surfaces." (Edwin Bryant, Page 511)

> Quote 2: Barring any new discoveries, neither internal evidence from the
> Veda, nor archaeological evidence, nor linguistic substrata alone can make
> the turning point in any given hypothesis. This situation should be the
> most persuasive case of all for schol-ars to allow the questions to unite
> them in interdependence, rather than suspicions todivide them in monistic
> theory-making. It is far too early for scholars to begin taking positions
> and constructing scenarios as if they were truths. Rather, it is time for
> scholars to rewrite and then share a set of common questions, such as the
> ones artic-ulated earlier. Then, a lack of conclusive evidence can be a
> spur for further research,rather than a political bludgeon which wastes
> precious intellectual resources. (Laurie Patton, Page 30). Source:
> http://www.scribd.com/doc/54128303/Bryant-Edwin-and-Laurie-Patton-Ed-...

> A new discovery? A decipherment of Indus script?

> In my view, a melting of the glaciers that separate the 'invasionists' and
> 'indigenists' can occur if an agreement can be reached on the nature of the
> Indian language union (sprachbund) ca. 3500 BCE. The links provided at the
> above-mentioned blogpost do NOT include discussions on the Indian
> sprachbund.

> I suggest that the discussions may start with this topic of Indian
> sprachbund articulated in: Emeneau, 1956; Kuiper, 1948; Masica, 1971;
> Przyludski, 1929; Southworth, 2005).

> Emeneau, MB, 1956, India as a linguistic area, Language 32, 1956, 3-16.
> Kuiper, FBJ, 1948, Proto-Munda words in Sanskrit, Amsterdam, 1948; 1967,
> The genesis of a linguistic area, IIJ 10, 1967, 81-102
> Masica, CP, 1971, Defining a Linguistic area. South Asia. Chicago: The
> University of Chicago Press.
> Przyludski, J., 1929, Further notes on non-aryan loans in Indo-Aryan in:
> Bagchi, P. C. (ed.), Pre-Aryan and Pre-Dravidian in Sanskrit. Calcutta :
> University of Calcutta: 145-149
> Southworth, F., 2005, Linguistic archaeology of South Asia, London,
> Routledge-Curzon.

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