A New Look at Vedic India

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Vedas are distinctly Indian documents taken from a definitely Indian milieu. There is no positive indication that some of the Vedas were composed in Afghanistan or elsewhere outside the subcontinent. Indologists claim that Vedic bards were subject to unspeakable curses and social sanctions for incorrect transmission of any hymn. The existence of a racial division is often suggested based on descriptions of enemy peoples as "dark" or "goat-nosed". The zebu and banteng were pos...