Truth and method in Indology, II

[Jan E.M. Houben]

On Thu, 28 May 1998 "Paul K. Manansala" <kabalen at MAIL.JPS.NET>
wrote:

>As far as I'm concerned the RV could have been written around ~500 BCE rather
>than ~1500 BCE.

. . . RV . . . written around ~500 BCE . . .

Dear Sir, whatever your fields of learning, apparently they do not include
either Vedic philology or archeology of South Asia.
Indeed, a few months ago, when suggestions were being made for articles/books
to be read before participating in an email-discussion related to Indo-Aryan im-
/e-migration in May, a primer like Basham's The Wonder that was India was
unfortunately not mentioned.