On 12 September, Dr Koenraad Elst sent the following open letter to archaeologist Kristian Kristiansen, linguist Guus Kroonen and geneticist Eske Willerslev, editors of the research collection The Indo-European Puzzle Revisited, 2023, and their publisher, Cambridge University Press.
Western Indologists such as Witzel cannot seem to accept the fact that Hindus now are reclaiming their own history.
Nationalism in the study of Indian historiography is a useful tool to discover this ancient land.
The genetic origins of Aryans is a distraction to keep the Indic side off balance and has little relevance outside of anthropological academic study.
Another case made for the Aryan Invasion Theory fails miserably.
It is hard to believe that someone so knowledgeable could so easily be swayed by supremacist propaganda.
Many northwestern tribes were are at war with Vedic kingdoms from the rest of India, similar to Pakistan's position in today's time.
Two decades after initially releasing his book, the author still holds the same biases regarding AIT without having come to terms with recent developments.
New evidence has come to light in linguistics that undermines the AIT whose proponents mostly rely on genetic evidence.
Linguistics is a field far away from the wild speculations of folk etymology and while it may not have the relative certitude of the exact sciences, it is nevertheless a scientific enterprise that opponents of the Aryan Invasion Theory may do well to familiarize themselves with, if they hope to win the debate at some point in the future.