Pattanaik’s Vedic People
In Swarajya, Devdutt Pattanaik writes These Aryans entered the Indian subcontinent around 4,000 years ago, a period when the cities of the Indus-Saraswati vall...
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Indus-Saraswati Civilization: The weakened monsoon theory
What caused the end of the Indus-Saraswati civilization? There are many theories regarding this In The Wonder That Was India, A L Basham presented a dramatic pi...
Out of India, to Australia
Australia was populated by modern humans around 47,000 years ago. Then, 4000 years back, the dingo reached Australia suggesting another movement of people which...
The Culprits who found Vedic Sarasvati
In an article about the appointment of Yellapragada Sudarshan Rao, as head of the Indian Council of Historical Research, Mihir S Sharma writes the following in ...
In Pragati: Evidence for the continuity between Harappan Signs and Brahmi letters
(Original published link) Instead of a complete termination of one civilisation and the beginning of a radically new one, there was a period of both continuity ...
In Pragati: Book Review of Riddle of the Labyrinth by Margalit Fox
Margalit Fox reveals the life and struggles of the people behind the decipherment of Linear B, an unknown language in an unknown script, similar to Indus-Sarasw...
In Pragati: An earlier date for Indo-Europeans in Northwest India
Between 4500 BCE and 2500 BCE, in the steppes north of Black and Caspian seas, in what is Southern Ukraine and Russia, there lived a group of people who spoke a...
Indo-European Speakers in North-West India by 4000 BCE?
The dates and method of arrival of Indo-European speakers in North-West India is a contentious issue. Once held sacred, the Aryan Invasion Theory is no longer c...
The Peaceful Harappans (2)
There is a theory that the people of Indus-Saraswati civilization were quite peaceful and this makes them quite different from other Bronze age civilizations li...
In Pragati: What caused the decline of Harappa?
(This was originally published in Pragati) In The Wonder That Was India, A L Basham presented a dramatic picture of the decline of the Harappan civilisation. Ac...