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100 Years of the Discovery of the Indus Valley Civilization: How It Shaped Indian Politics
As of then, Indian civilization’s antiquity had been traced up to the 3rd century BCE – in Mauryan Buddhist Emperor Asoka’s ...
Nilakanta Sastri’s take on Dravidian-Aryan divide and the claims on the Indus Valley Civilisation
Historian K.A. Nilakanta Sastri discusses the Dravidian-Aryan division in India, emphasizing cultural contacts and historical ...
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People who use food to show off imagined moral superiority aren’t just wrong but also idiots
The Vedic Aryans, from whom today’s Hindus draw some of their heritage, were not vegetarians. In the South, it is sometimes claimed that the term ‘pulao’ may have originated from an ancient ...
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How ancient DNA may rewrite prehistory in India
However, Hindu right-wingers believe the Harappan civilisation was also an Aryan or Vedic civilisation. Tensions between the two groups backing these opposing theories have only increased in the ...
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Aryans got the ‘nakshatra’ system from Harappans in 3000 BC
In Vedic texts, the Big Dipper is called ‘SaptaRishi ... This indicates that the Harappans introduced the immigrant Aryans to ...
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Vedic period
Harappa has proved to be a hurdle before Hindu nationalists’ Vedic Aryan superiority theory.