HIS282Y1 Lecture Notes - Aryan Invasion Theory, Indus Valley Civilisation, Indo
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Ended last class by discussing the ways india has been posed in western writing. The question about the far past of india: In the 19th and 20th century, there is a shift in the facts of the ancient past. Late 18th century, most understandings came through translations of. Ask the foundations of understanding: braminical view of india. In the 19th century, we begin to see archeological evidence. They begin to find evidence of urban culture that goes well before all the sanskrit text. Hegel and mill basing their understanding on india on textual evidence from european translation of vedic text. People who come to india from the west in second millennium bc. Basis of the idea what is called the aryan conquest . There is no indigenous civilization; the first structured civilization came to the subcontinent. Arya a linguistic group, refer to people who speak to some form of. Aryan people who speak sanskrit become a racial term.
