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Given the scholarly inclinations among the expatriate communities in North America we may expect a slew of new interpretations, in fact, a whole new cottage industry. Their impact will appear especially on the internet.

— Michael Witzel

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I would not care, eg, if the IA-s could be shown to emerge from the proto-Masai culture of E-Africa.

Chicken and still later exports from India are absent in common Laurasan ritual.

The so-called ‘invasion’ of IA speakers is not (yet) visible in the archaeology.

Poets such as Śamyu Bārhapatasya 6.45.1, some early Kaṇvas (in book 8) [belong to the] Early Ṛgvedic level.

This word [Druhyu] means, literally, ‘the ones who seek to cheat’. Non-linguist as he is, Talageri missed a great chance for a ‘socio-ethnic’ study based on an etymology!

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