A bestseller, now in paperback edition, this work serves as a virtual primer to the major issues of Indo-Aryan origins. Written in an extremely lucid style with laudable detachment and restraint, this book is remarkable for its openness and lack of bias. Was the Rgveda composed in Afghanistan? Was the Ghaggar River once the mighty Sarasvati of the Rgveda? Were the Rgvedic people and the Harappans the same? Was Rama’s Ayodhya in India? In ‘The Vedic People’, well -known astrophysicist Rajesh Kochhar provides answers to these quintessential questions of ancient Indian history. Drawing upon and synthesizing data from a wide variety of fields – linguistics and literature, natural history, archaeology, history of technology, geomorphology and astronomy- the author presents a bold hypothesis which seeks to resolve several paradoxes that have plagued the professional historian and archaeologist alike. Arguing that a major part of the Rgveda was composed in south Afghanistan (after c.1700BC) before the Rgvedic people entered the Punjab plain and well before they moved east of the Ganga River, the author asserts that during their migrations the Indo-Aryans not only carried with them their rituals and hymns but also place and river names which they selectively used.
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