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My other blog, Bharata Samskriti focuses on Hinduism from a religious perspective, where I assume the Vedas are divine texts and that the gods are real and stuff. Pretty much it is a religious blog. This blog however is my secular blog where I talk about Indology with a more secular view. So here I will treat the Vedas as historical texts and talk about the various cultures that went into shaping Vedic beliefs, and beliefs of later Hinduism. 


I will talk about topics like the origin of certain deities, histories of certain dynasties, religion (from a theological view) of various peoples in India, again with an indological perspective. The dates I will use are relative as I believe in the antiquity of the Vedas and Mahabharata being ~3000 BCE, but occasionally I will use the western scholar dates out of convenience. For those of you who believe in the Puranic Chronology, I refer you to the works of Vedveer Arya. If I give a western date of a king in terms of AD or BC, just know that the Vedveer Arya would place that king 660 years earlier or 1300 years earlier depending on how the western date was arrived at.


Another thing is that I will assume the Indo Aryan migration theory to appeal to western scholarship. The idea is that if I can make my point on the assumption of an Aryan Migration Theory, then my point will be even stronger under an Out of India Migration Theory. I am partial to the Out of India Theory, though if I am being honest I wouldn’t mind the Aryan Migration Theory if it was to occur a milenia or two earlier than the consensus date. 


I believe in the Proto Indo European language and it being distinct from the Proto Dravidian language. I view the Indus Valley to be Dravidian but make it clear that doesn’t mean there was no Indo Aryan presence at the time. I view the Indo Aryans to be contemporary yet distinct from the Indus Valley people, living adjacent to the Indus Valley civilization. The idea is that the Indus Valley civilization is of the Yadavas and Turvashas whereas the Indo European based people are of the Purus and Anu and Druhyu tribes. Read Talageri’s work on who the Panca jana are.


With that, welcome to the blog.

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