"invasion"?

[Swaminathan Madhuresan]

The field has progressed since Minkowski wrote, at that time M. has not
seen Parpola's book. In his book and papers written after that,
P. does a synthesis of all available data from different foelds like
archaeology, linguistics and philology. For a short list:
http://www.acusd.edu/theo/risa-l/archive/msg04214.html

Even in a paper just very recently published in Japan, Prof. Parpola talks of
the number RV Aryans to be very small. Hence, my surprise at your
assertion that Vedic Aryans are the "genetic imprint" of Indians.
"race", "genes of Aryans", are out-of-date.

Consider this: why retroflexion, a prominent feature in Tamil,
is widespread all over India? Dravidologists consider this a major
element in the substratum at an all India level.

Regards,
SM

--- Vanbakkam Vijayaraghavan <vijay at VOSSNET.CO.UK> wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Apr 2001 08:07:04 -0700, Swaminathan Madhuresan
> <smadhuresan at YAHOO.COM> wrote:
>
> Indologists,
> >Anthropologists, claim that Indians in the North changed to Aryan languages
> >when their elites imposed  by force, co-options (cf. chariots and archery).
>
>
> Please refer to
>  http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-shl/WA.EXE?A2=ind9409&L=indology&P=R1090
> where the poster says
> ".  Whether the languages and cultures current in Northern South Asia
> when the "Aryans" arrived were "Dravidian" is a theory that has been
> suggested, but not proved, I do not think.
>
> But I would be glad to be corrected,
> Yours,
> C. Minkowski, Cornell U."


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