Sindhu-Sarasvatī & Origins
The question of civilizational origins — Indus-Sarasvati civilization, Out of India theory, the Aryan debate, ancient genetics, Indo-European linguistics, and Vedic archaeology.
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Bhāratīya Wanderlust - A Defence of the Out-of-India Model (OIT), Part 1
Part 1 of a three-part dismantling of the Aryan Invasion/Migration Theory - the textual, genetic, and archaeological evidence increasingly supports an Out-of-India model for Indo-European dispersal - and the implications are civilizationally significant.
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Bhāratīya Wanderlust - A Defence of the Out-of-India Model (OIT), Part 2
Part 2 - examining the textual evidence for the Out-of-India model - what the Ṛgveda and comparative philology actually show when read without the Invasion Theory's assumptions baked in from the start.
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Bhāratīya Wanderlust - A Defence of the Out-of-India Model (OIT), Part 3
Part 3 - archaeological and genetic evidence for Out-of-India, concluding with a positive reconstruction of what the actual Āryan dispersal looked like and what it means for India's understanding of its civilizational origins.
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Dāśarājña Recontextualized - Part 1
Part 1 of a three-part reconstruction of the Dāśarājña (Battle of Ten Kings) as an early datable event in Indian history, reexamining Ṛgveda Maṇḍala 7 using Out-of-India chronological frameworks.
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Dāśarājña Recontextualized - Part 2
Part 2 - a close reading of the textual data in Ṛgveda Maṇḍala 7, parsing the battle's participants, geography, and historical context against established chronologies of Indian lineages.
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Dāśarājña Recontextualized - Part 3
Part 3 - the concluding reconstruction of the Dāśarājña - placing the battle in specific historical and geographic context and drawing out its implications for India's deep civilizational memory.
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Ratha as a Bīja of Civilizational DNA, a Fractal Maṇḍala Essay
The ratha (chariot) as a bīja - a seed form that contains the entire Dhārmika worldview in compressed symbolic code - an essay in reading Hindu iconography as philosophical argument embedded in form.