... Similar anti-Romila posts and blogs are ubiquitous on the Net. Your critique has nothing new. Actually, this is a matter of a cottage industry of critiqes...
... It doesn't make any difference. The restored version is hypothetical for a number of reasons. It chooses one recension of the the five remaining...
... Well, the casting is detailed enough (see, f.i., the "box" and the oxen's yoke) to allow for at least some suggestion of the presence of bronze spokes on...
I am sure there are ways to do a real study without damaging the foundation or weakening the structure; even allowing visitors to have free access is a start....
Below is the annoucement for a very interesting new paper on the Indus script, with sophisticated statistical analyses. This kind of work seems to hold much...
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hi vinod according to the presentation it appears that ALL of the peoples in the subcontinent would have perished with the mt.toba mega volcano, covering the...
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How the Taj was almost wrecked by the British goons! Read excerpt from R. Nath's book: 'History of Decorative Art in Mughal Architecture' Ram << R.Nath in his...
Michel, ... Question is the embellished facts create so much falsehood that it would be better if they did not exist at all. Take this alexander debate. Please...
... http://hindurajput.blogspot.com/#Rajputs_and_Invasions_of_India ... I will convey your words to the author or if you choose you can leave a comment for...
Sampath, Taj itself is not a hindu created structure. It was created by shahjahan and her daughter, jahanara, records its construction quite eloquently in her ...
BTW francesco do you know hundreds to thousands of hindu temples were destroyed by muslims ? They are still being destoryed in kashmir as we speak but people...
... What ... cities ... Tsk, Tsk, Tsk Fransesco, do you have a habbit of reading between the lines? No I don't propose anything. I am not even an Indian...
... David, though the term rathae-šta:/rathae-štar/ratho-išta: 'warrior' is only attested in the Young Avesta (which is several centuries later than the...
... You use one imaginary chariot as evidence to prove other imaginary chariot! All the same problems with your Vedic "chariots" are found with the Avestan...
... Dear friends, Here F.Brighenti mentions that Daimabad Charriot is of Dravidian origin, specifically of Late Harappan origin. Time ago there was already a...
... Francesco is fond of generalizing and making accusations, but has not yet come to grips with the political and racial ideology of AIT/AMT. These...
Trudy and other members, Buddhism and Islam cannot be studied in isolation. In addition one has to study: a) Islam in arabia, b) In persia and what happened to...
At a small town, Kallil, in Kerala we find the remains of an ancient Jain temple structure cut into the rock caves. Jainism was very popular in the South,...
... Dear Paul, What I conclude after this exhausting discussion is, that it is your knowledge of Vedic and Avestan references to light two-wheeled chariots...
Shivraj, I don't see the point of your post, nor of the preceding one. You supply no evidence of any sort towards your claim that Alexander was defeated by ...
The casting is not a scale model. The axle is too thin to support any weight even at zero speed. Should we conclude that there were no wheeled vehicles? I...
... The answer is very simple ... literary evidence is not evidence. Is the rigvedic ocean really an ocean? maybe but it still is not conclusive. An absolute...
Sometime ago there was discussion about the term mleccha in the Indian tradition and how, when, and why it acquired a negative or pejorative connotation. In...
... I have looked at the texts, Francesco, and furthermore I asked you how the texts can constitute "proof" of the existence of chariots i.e. by quoting the...
