Genetics and the Aryan debate: "Early Indians" Tony Joseph's latest assault, preface by Koenraad Elst

Language: English
Pages: 220

About The Book
Since the early nineties, there has been intense and furious debate regarding the AIT or "Aryan Invasion Theory", which claims that a group of people speaking Indo-European ("Aryan") languages entered India sometime in the second millennium BCE and established their language, religion and culture all over North India. Throughout its history, the debate was based on three academic disciplines: Linguistics, Archaeology and Textual/ Inscriptional Data. However, the weight of the evidence in these three fields now increasingly confirms the rival theory, the OIT or "Out-of-India Theory" which sees India as the Original Homeland of these languages. So the proponents of the AIT have recently abandoned these three fields and have started falling back on a totally new field of study: Genetics.
The spokesperson for the AIT since the last few years is one Tony Joseph, through his articles in The Hindu. Tony Joseph has now written a full-fledged volume titled "Early Indians" (262 pp), published by Juggernaut books, New Delhi, 2018. Since the book is the subject of a full-fledged systematic and intense media campaign, this present work analyses the whole "genetic" case for the AIT as per this book by Tony Joseph, and demonstrates how Genetics is irrelevant to the problem of the ancient history of the Indo-European languages.

About The Author
The writer, Shrikant G. Talageri, is the foremost proponent of the OIT or "Out-of-India Theory" through his many articles and blogs on the subject, and primarily his three published books on the subject: The Aryan Invasion Theory and Indian Nationalism (1993), The Rigveda - A Historical Analysis (2000), and The Rigveda and the Avesta - The Final Evidence (2008).

Preface

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