In Search of the Cradle of Civilization
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| Author | Georg Feuerstein, Subhash Kak, and David Frawley |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Out of India theory |
| Publisher | Quest Books |
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1995 |
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| OCLC | 32051035 |
In Search of the Cradle of Civilization: New Light on Ancient India is a 1995 book by Georg Feuerstein, Subhash Kak, and David Frawley in which they argue against the theories that Indo-European peoples arrived in India in the middle of the second millennium BC (Indo-Aryan migration) and support the concept of "Indigenous Aryans" and the Out of India theory.
The book was published by Quest Books, a branch of the Theosophical Society in America.
Contradicting earlier views of colonial historians, the authors argue that Vedic civilization grew out of the "Indus-Sarasvati civilization", or "Indus Valley civilization". The authors enumerate fifteen arguments for their revisionist views. Several of these arguments emphasize linguistic, architectural, cultural, agricultural, and technological continuity between Harappan culture, the Vedas, and post-Vedic Hinduism. They also argue that it is improbable that the Vedas were the product of a nomadic or semi-nomadic group. Early opinion considered the Rigveda as containing memories of an earlier nomadic period, whilst the later Vedas were the product of a society native to India. The authors argue that this early viewpoint of the Rigveda is based on mistaken and speculative interpretations, and that in actuality the Rigveda also describes society native to India.
The authors leave open the view that India is the Urheimat (original homeland) of the Indo-Europeans (the "out of India model"), saying that "the Aryans could just as well have been native to India for several millennia, deriving their Sanskritic language from earlier Indo-European dialects."
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