Acknowledgements

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Foreword to the Series VII
3. Preface X
4. Acknowledgements XVI
5. References XVIII
6. Contents XIX
7. List of contributors XXI
8. I. Theoretical perspectives
9. 1. Language, material culture and ethnicity: Theoretical perspectives 1
10. 2. Have Aryans been identified in the prehistoric skeletal record from South Asia? Biological anthropology and concepts of ancient races 32
11. 3. Vedic Aryans, non-Vedic Aryans, and non-Aryans: Judging the linguistic evidence of the Veda 67
12. 4. Early Indian history: Linguistic and textual parametres 85
13. 5. The concepts of "cultural traditon" and "palaeoethnicity" in South Asian archaeology 126
14. 6. The Avesta as source for the early history of the Iranians 155
15. 7. The Aryan question: Some general considerations 177
16. II. Historical perspectives
17. 8. South Asia from a Central Asian perspective 192
18. 9. Central Asia and the Rgveda: The archaeological evidence 206
19. 10. Interaction systems, specialised crafts and culture change: The Indus Valley Tradition and the Indo-Gangetic Tradition in South Asia 213
20. 11. Reconstructing social context from language: Indo-Aryan and Dravidian prehistory 258
21. 12. Dialect variation in Old and Middle Indo-Aryan 278
22. 13. On drawing socio-linguistic distinctions in Old Indo-Aryan: The question of Kṣatriya Sanskrit and related problems 293
23. 14. Ṛgvedic history: poets, chieftains and polities 307
24. 15. The problem of the Aryans and the Soma: Textual-linguistic and archaeological evidence 353
25. 16. The problem of the Aryans and the Soma: The botanical evidence 382
26. Author Index 407
27. General Index 410