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7 years ago @ Musings - India: the UPA\'s unsu... · 2 replies · +1 points

All the defaulters are also India's top business houses, including Adanis and Ambanis. Now at the time of awarding these loans if the banks knew that a Adani or an Ambani or a Mallya would not pay back the loans then I don't think the bank would have advanced them loans. Govt. also can't know in advance that leading Industrial houses of the nation would default on their loan payment down the road.

7 years ago @ Musings - Ancestry Models · 1 reply · +1 points

To prove something like that requires substantial amount of written literature present for the period, which I am afraid, is not the case, but it certainly gives me the pretext to read all volumes of Kalidasa! But in any case it is a fair guess that Sakas did speak some form of Indo-Iranian and subsequently Indo-Aryan, both these language family have substantial common vocabulary. The word Saka itself is of Indo-Iranian origin. There is absolutely no way to tell that Sakas did not make any contribution to north Indian languages.

7 years ago @ Musings - Ancestry Models · 1 reply · +1 points

There are many German words used in American English which are not used English of other regions. A quick google search should yield up a whole lot of german words used in American English, but not used elsewhere.

7 years ago @ Musings - Ancestry Models · 3 replies · +1 points

Sakas probably spoke some form of old/middle Persian, there is enough Persian words used in north Indian languages ( 10 -15% in HIndustani, higher in Urdu), so at least a portion of Persian words used on the subcontinent can be attributed to Sakas! So the trace of Sakas language is there, linguists should be able to better answer this question.

7 years ago @ Musings - Ancestry Models · 13 replies · +1 points

If Steppe people did not bring Sanskrit then what language did they bring with them? There must be some trace of the language they brought in, so where is the trace of the language they brought with them? For example less than 1% of the Indian population, the British, had a profound impact and English is one of the most widely used language in India. Similarly a large portion of the north Indian languages have words from Persian, Arabic, and Turkic because of invasion by forces from these regions.

The invading/migrating Aryans were far more numerous than the British, ascertained by the fact that most Indians carry between 20% - 40% Steppe DNA, so where is the trace of their language if not Sanskrit?!

9 years ago @ Musings - New indications on the... · 1 reply · +1 points

Shouldn't it be obvious that the ANI people brought the IndoEuropean language ( Sanskrit ) to India? Have you noticed the similarity between spoken balto-slavic languages and spoken Sanskrit? Progression of Kurgan -> Sintashta -> BMAC -> Swat ->Cemetry H -> Painted Gray Ware, I would argue is the path taken by ANI who brought PIE to India.

Developments in the last couple of years have convinced me. The problem is proponents of OIT are two emotionally invested and will find it rather hard to climb down from their positions, even though they have never furnished any research/proofs to bolster their claim.

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