A Discourse on Indo European Languages & Culture

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The book, A Discourse on Indo European Languages and Culture, edited by Professor D.N. Tripathi, is a revised and reorganized presentation of papers read at a seminar held on 7-9 January 2002 at India International Centre, New Delhi, jointly sponsored by the Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi and the Centre for the Study of Indian Tradition, Madhubani. Besides scholarly papers, Prof. Tripathi provides an illuminative introduction to the seminar theme. The book looks at the problem in the light of new evidences and perspectives, and critically reviews and various theories on the subject. The book urges fresh efforts in this area focusing on the period of Rigveda as well as the inadequacy of the dispersal theory of languages and underlines the need to focus scholarly gaze on indigenous origin and growth of languages. Arranged in 25 chapters by eminent scholars, the collection provides readings in archaeology, linguistics, remote sensing, palaeoclimatology, palaeo-astronomy and archaeo-genetics, and a veritable combination of them, related with the issue of original homeland for Indo-European languages and culture. This volume is one set of discourse in the hermeneutic of differential readings in the present horizon of debate.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR D.N. Tripathi

Currently, the Chairman, Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi, Professor D.N. Tripathi retired as Head, Department of Ancient History, Archaeology and Culture, and as Director, Rahul Peeth, Gorakhpur University, Uttar Pradesh. Earlier, he was Member, ICHR since 1997 till he became its Chairman in February 2004. He was Fellow of Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, and during September-October 2003, he was Visiting Professor, British Academy, UK. Professor Tripathi, a Postgraduate in Ancient History, Culture and Archaeology from Allahabad University (1958), studied Greek language from Athens University, Greece in 1970s and took Doctorate on Bronzework of Greece, from Southampton University (UK) in 1976. Besides various foreign scholarships and participation in international conferences and seminars, he has organized important national and international seminars. Having taught for four decades and guiding doctoral and post-doctoral scholars, he has authored a number of research papers and books on Indian and Greek studies, and delivered series of lectures in universities in UK, USA and Greece. His books include Bronzework of Mainland Greece from 2600 BC to 1450 BC (1987), Archaeology and Tradition (1988), Cultural Interactions Between India and Greece (1996), and Hinduism and Hellenism (2004).