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Author : T. Balakrishnan Nayar
Publisher : [Madras] : University of Madras
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Problem of Dravidian Origins written by T. Balakrishnan Nayar and published by [Madras] : University of Madras. This book was released on 1977 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kaikhushru Dhunjibhoy Sethna
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Problem of Aryan Origins from an Indian Point of View written by Kaikhushru Dhunjibhoy Sethna and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume takes up ?from an Indian Point of View? a cluster of important historical questions about India?s most ancient past and formulates fresh answers to them in great detail with the temper of a scrupulous scholar.This edition, extensively enlarged with five supplements,demonstrates for the period after 1980 at still greater length ? with the same tools of widespread scholarship the validity of the first edition?s thesis.
Author : Asko Parpola
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190226935
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book The Roots of Hinduism written by Asko Parpola and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hinduism has two major roots. The more familiar is the religion brought to South Asia in the second millennium BCE by speakers of Aryan or Indo-Iranian languages, a branch of the Indo-European language family. Another, more enigmatic, root is the Indus civilization of the third millennium BCE, which left behind exquisitely carved seals and thousands of short inscriptions in a long-forgotten pictographic script. Discovered in the valley of the Indus River in the early 1920s, the Indus civilization had a population estimated at one million people, in more than 1000 settlements, several of which were cities of some 50,000 inhabitants. With an area of nearly a million square kilometers, the Indus civilization was more extensive than the contemporaneous urban cultures of Mesopotamia and Egypt. Yet, after almost a century of excavation and research the Indus civilization remains little understood. How might we decipher the Indus inscriptions? What language did the Indus people speak? What deities did they worship? Asko Parpola has spent fifty years researching the roots of Hinduism to answer these fundamental questions, which have been debated with increasing animosity since the rise of Hindu nationalist politics in the 1980s. In this pioneering book, he traces the archaeological route of the Indo-Iranian languages from the Aryan homeland north of the Black Sea to Central, West, and South Asia. His new ideas on the formation of the Vedic literature and rites and the great Hindu epics hinge on the profound impact that the invention of the horse-drawn chariot had on Indo-Aryan religion. Parpola's comprehensive assessment of the Indus language and religion is based on all available textual, linguistic and archaeological evidence, including West Asian sources and the Indus script. The results affirm cultural and religious continuity to the present day and, among many other things, shed new light on the prehistory of the key Hindu goddess Durga and her Tantric cult.
Author : U. Padmanabha Upadhyaya
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Dravidian and Negro-African written by U. Padmanabha Upadhyaya and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sanford B. Steever
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317525396
Total Pages : 565 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)
Download or read book The Dravidian Languages written by Sanford B. Steever and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dravidian language family is the world's fourth largest with nearly 250 million speakers across South Asia from Pakistan to Nepal, from Bangladesh to Sri Lanka. This authoritative reference source provides a unique description of the languages, covering their grammatical structure and historical development, plus sociolinguistic features. Each chapter combines a modern linguistic perspective with traditional historical linguistics, and a uniform structure allows for easy typological comparison between the individual languages. New to this edition are chapters on Beṭṭa Kuṟumba, Kuṛux, Kūvi and Malayāḷam, and enlarged sections in various existing chapters, as well as updated bibliographies and demographic data throughout. The Dravidian Languages will be invaluable to students and researchers within linguistics, and will also be of interest to readers in the fields of comparative literature, areal linguistics and South Asian studies.
Author : Thomas R. Trautmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521237031
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Dravidian Kinship written by Thomas R. Trautmann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1982-01-29 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicolas Lahovary
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Dravidian Origins and the West written by Nicolas Lahovary and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Caldwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)
Download or read book A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Or South-Indian Family of Languages written by Robert Caldwell and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bhadriraju Krishnamurti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139435337
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book The Dravidian Languages written by Bhadriraju Krishnamurti and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-16 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dravidian languages are spoken by over 200 million people in South Asia and in Diaspora communities around the world, and constitute the world's fifth largest language family. It consists of about 26 languages in total including Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Telugu, as well as over 20 non-literary languages. In this book, Bhadriraju Krishnamurti, one of the most eminent Dravidianists of our time, provides a comprehensive study of the phonological and grammatical structure of the whole Dravidian family from different aspects. He describes its history and writing systems, discusses its structure and typology, and considers its lexicon. Distant and more recent contacts between Dravidian and other language groups are also discussed. With its comprehensive coverage this book will be welcomed by all students of Dravidian languages and will be of interest to linguists in various branches of the discipline as well as Indologists.
Author : Kaikhushru Dhunjibhoy Sethna
Publisher : Calcutta : S. & S. Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Problem of Aryan Origins written by Kaikhushru Dhunjibhoy Sethna and published by Calcutta : S. & S. Publishers. This book was released on 1980 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edwin Bryant
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135791015
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)
Download or read book The Indo-Aryan Controversy written by Edwin Bryant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time in a single volume, this book presents the various arguments in the Indo-Aryan controversy. It also provides a template for the basic issues addressing four major areas: archaeological research, linguistic issues, the interpretation of Vedic texts in their historical contexts, and ideological roots. The volume ends with a plea for a return to civility in the debates which have become increasingly, and unproductively, politicized, and suggests a program of research and inquiry upon which scholars from all sides of the debate might embark.
Author : Rajiv Malhotra
Publisher : Bright Sparks
ISBN 13 : 9788191067378
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (673 download)
Download or read book Breaking India written by Rajiv Malhotra and published by Bright Sparks. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the role of U.S. and European churches, academics, think-tanks, foundations, government and human rights groups in fostering separation of the identities of Dravidian and Dalit communities from the rest of India. It is the result of five years of research, and uses information obtained in the West about foreign funding of these Indian-based activities. The research tracked the money trails that start out claiming to be for education, human rights, empowerment training and leadership training, but end up in programs designed to produce angry youths who feel disenfranchised from Indian identity. The book reveals how outdated racial theories continue to provide academic frameworks and fuel the rhetoric that can trigger civil wars and genocides in developing countries. The Dravidian movement's 200-year history has such origins. Its latest manifestation is the Dravidian Christianity - movement that fabricates a political and cultural history to exploit old faultlines. The book explicitly names individuals and institutions, including prominent Western ones and their Indian affiliates. Its goal is to spark an honest debate on the extent to which human rights and other empowerment projects are cover-ups for these nefarious activities.
Author : Wilber Theodore Elmore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Dravidian Gods in Modern Hinduism written by Wilber Theodore Elmore and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : K. Venkateswarlu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000365778
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Colonialism, Orientalism and the Dravidian Languages written by K. Venkateswarlu and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dravidian language family is marked historically by a protracted struggle between Tamil and its aggressively assertive supremacy, and the consequent peripheralizing of other majoritarian languages of the region. This book looks at the development of Telugu — with its unique grammatical and lexical tradition as instrumental in the construction of the concept of the Dravidian language family in 1816, and in the development of comparative linguistics since that time. The author’s arguments locate Telugu in multiple matrices: of historical and theoretical Orientalism; the colonial state’s interest in native languages; the politics of state patronage; questions of cultural assimilation and divergence; the overbearing presence of Tamil and its literary traditions; and the related inter- and intra-civilizational dialogues. The book thus grapples with the tortured emergence of Telugu — a product of the dynamics of Andhra society, economy, polity and culture influenced and driven by Muslim, Hindu and Western influence. With its richly textured narrative, this book will be of interest to those in the fields of history, sociology, socio-linguistics, colonial studies, and literature, apart from the generally interested reader.
Author : Romila Thapar
Publisher : Rupa Publications
ISBN 13 : 9789388292382
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (923 download)
Download or read book Which of Us are Aryans? written by Romila Thapar and published by Rupa Publications. This book was released on 2019 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of which of us is Aryan is one of the most contentious in India today. In this eye-opening book, scholars and experts critically examine the Aryan issue by analysing history, genetics, early Vedic scriptures, archaeology and linguistics to test and debunk various hypotheses, myths, facts and theories that are currently in vogue.
Author : K.V. Zvelebil
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004493026
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Companion Studies to the History of Tamil Literature written by K.V. Zvelebil and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-06 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a number of problems connected with the study and teaching of any Oriental literature in general and of Tamil literature specifically which have to date been mostly ignored, although they are indispensable for solid knowledge and correct interpretation and understanding of the literature in question. These include problems of authenticity and authorship, of transmission and tradition, writing tools and materials, of relationship of orality to literacy, of Sanskrit to Tamil, the prehistory of Tamil written literature, the numerous texts that have been lost, scholarly lineages and the rediscovery of ancient Tamil literature etc. The book deals with all these problems as well as with some specific Tamil cultural phenomena such as the concept of "threefold Tamil" or the relationship of literature ('marked') to grammar ('marker'), with the derivation of the term "Tamil" and with the history of Tamil literary historiography. It will be indispensable as an introduction to the study of the more than 2000 years of Tamil literary history. By addressing questions which have thus far been almost completely neglected, it has also decisive impact on the interpretative comprehension of Tamil literature and on the teaching of this very rich heritage of verbal art.
Author : Sylvain Lévi
Publisher : Asian Educational Services
ISBN 13 : 9788120607729
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Pre-Aryan and Pre-Dravidian in India written by Sylvain Lévi and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 1993 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notes that the author has penned are on social organization, the five classes, kings, marriage, war, musical instruments, town and village houses, dress, decoration, amusements, means of transport, food, agriculture, love in marudam, pasturage, tame animals, birds, trees and plants, ideal of feminine beauty and industries. Translated from French by Prabodh Chandra Bagchi
