RELG 353 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Vedas, Upanishads, Indian Epic Poetry
3 Nov 2016
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Advocated religious reform on subjects such as gender caste race etc. One objective: to look at criticisms of him. Five major historical time periods: pre-vedic (7000-1600bce), vedic, Colonialism=important during this time, but began in medieval period. Earliest evidence of historical civilization 7000 bce=indus valley or. Based in north-west india along indus river. No texts, only artifacts not much is known, lots of speculation. Traces of a language/script of the time but it hasn"t been deciphered. Central asia migrated into south asia and they came to form the vedic civilization/culture. Do know that as the indus valley was in decline, another nomadic group from. 1600 bce nomadic cultural group migrated on horseback to south asia (remains of horses show their introduction into the area) Aryan (noble) language=sanskrit, speculation that they were related to. ^^nazi racial ideas based on this speculation. Revealed texts of non-human authorship held to be eternal (not composed)
