The West Aryans
Author | : John Clark Ridpath |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 834 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Ethnology |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John Clark Ridpath |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 834 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Ethnology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Dorothy M. Figueira |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0791487830 |
In Aryans, Jews, Brahmins, Dorothy M. Figueira provides a fascinating account of the construction of the Aryan myth and its uses in both India and Europe from the Enlightenment to the twentieth century. The myth concerns a race that inhabits a utopian past and gives rise first to Brahmin Indian culture and then to European culture. In India, notions of the Aryan were used to develop a national identity under colonialism, one that allowed Indian elites to identify with their British rulers. It also allowed non-elites to set up a counter identity critical of their position in the caste system. In Europe, the Aryan myth provided certain thinkers with an origin story that could compete with the Biblical one and could be used to diminish the importance of the West's Jewish heritage. European racial hygienists made much of the myth of a pure Aryan race, and the Nazis later looked at India as a cautionary tale of what could happen if a nation did not remain "pure." As Figueira demonstrates, the history of the Aryan myth is also a history of reading, interpretation, and imaginative construction. Initially, the ideology of the Aryan was imposed upon absent or false texts. Over time, it involved strategies of constructing, evoking, or distorting the canon. Each construction of racial identity was concerned with key issues of reading: canonicity, textual accessibility, interpretive strategies of reading, and ideal readers. The book's cross-cultural investigation demonstrates how identities can be and are created from texts and illuminates an engrossing, often disturbing history that arose from these creations.
Author | : Braj Basi Lal |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : 9788173052835 |
Author | : Edwin Bryant |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
ISBN | : 0195169476 |
This work studies how Indian scholars have rejected the idea of an external origin of the Indo-Aryans, by questioning the logic assumptions and methods upon which the theory is based.
Author | : John Clark Ridpath |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : Ethnology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : George Erdosy |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9783110144475 |
Author | : Ram Sharan Sharma |
Publisher | : Orient Blackswan |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9788125006312 |
Who were the Aryans? Where did they come from? Did they always live in India? The Aryan problem has been attracting fresh attention in academic, social and political arenas. This book identifies the main traits of Aryan culture and follows the spread of their cultural markers. Using the latest archaeological evidence and the earliest known Indo-European inscriptions on the social and economic features of Aryan society, the distinguished historian, R. S. Sharma, throws fresh light on the current debate on whether or not the Aryans were the indigenous inhabitants of India. This book is essential reading for those interested in the history of India and its culture.
Author | : Vere Gordon Childe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : Indo-Aryans |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Stefan Arvidsson |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2006-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226028607 |
Critically examining the discourse of Indo-European scholarship over the past two hundred years, Aryan Idols demonstrates how the interconnected concepts of “Indo-European” and “Aryan” as ethnic categories have been shaped by, and used for, various ideologies. Stefan Arvidsson traces the evolution of the Aryan idea through the nineteenth century—from its roots in Bible-based classifications and William Jones’s discovery of commonalities among Sanskrit, Latin, and Greek to its use by scholars in fields such as archaeology, anthropology, folklore, comparative religion, and history. Along the way, Arvidsson maps out the changing ways in which Aryans were imagined and relates such shifts to social, historical, and political processes. Considering the developments of the twentieth century, Arvidsson focuses on the adoption of Indo-European scholarship (or pseudoscholarship) by the Nazis and by Fascist Catholics. A wide-ranging discussion of the intellectual history of the past two centuries, Aryan Idols links the pervasive idea of the Indo-European people to major scientific, philosophical, and political developments of the times, while raising important questions about the nature of scholarship as well.
Author | : B. S. Gidwani |
Publisher | : Penguin Global |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Historical fiction, Indic (English) |
ISBN | : 9780143418986 |
In a remarkable feat of imagination and research, bhagwan S. Gidwani takes us back to the dawn of civilization (8000 BCE) to vividly recreate the world of the Aryans. He tells us why the Aryans left India - their native land - for foreign shores and shows us their triumphant return to their homeland. Here are characters like the gentle god Sindhu Putra, spreading his message of love; the hermit Bharat, who inspired the dream of unity, equality, human rights and dignity for all; the physician - sage Dhanawantar and his wife Dhanawantari; peace-loving Kashi after whom the holy city of Varanasi is named; and Nila who gave his name to the rive Nile. Vast and absorbing, with a cast of thousands, March of the Aryans is a gripping tale of kings and poets, seers and gods, battles and romance, and the rise and fall of civilisations, from the bestselling author of The Sword of Tipu Sultan.