INDO-Aryan Controversy: Evidence and Inference in Indian History Book

	Introduction	1
Pt. I	Archaeology	19
1	Culture change during the Late Harappan period at Harappa : new insights on Vedic Aryan issues	21
2	Aryan invasion of India : perpetuation of a myth	50
3	South Asian archaeology and the myth of Indo-Aryan invasions	75
Pt. II	Archaeology and linguistics	105
4	The cultural counterparts to Proto-Indo-European, Proto-Uralic and Proto-Aryan : matching the dispersal and contact patterns in the linguistic and archaeological record	107
5	Archaeology and language : the case of the Bronze Age Indo-Iranians	142
Pt. III	Philology and linguistics	179
6	The date of the Rigveda and the Aryan migration : fresh linguistic evidence	181
7	Linguistic aspects of the Aryan non-invasion theory	234
8	Philology and the historical interpretation of the Vedic texts	282
9	Vedic astronomy and early Indian chronology	309
10	The textual evidence : the Rigveda as a source of Indo-European history	332
11	Indocentrism : autochthonous visions of ancient India	341
Pt. IV	Historiography	405
12	Aryan origins : arguments from the nineteenth-century Maharashtra	407
13	Aryan past and post-colonial present : the polemics and politics of indigenous Aryanism	434
14	Concluding remarks	468