Below are posting guidelines for the Indo-Eurasian_Research List (jointly run by Michael Witzel, Lars Martin Fosse, and Steve Farmer). The List is primarily aimed at professional researchers in premodern Indology, Iranology, Near Eastern and Central Asian Studies, Sinology, and Comparative History. Participants include linguists, historians, archaeologists, art historians, specialists in ancient religions, comparativists, and researchers in many…
The pottery “tablet” from Harappa that N. S. Rajaram claims to have “deciphered” (see our cover story in the 13 October 2000 story in Frontline Magazine) was the lead illustration in a BBC Online article by Dr. David Whitehouse entitled Earliest Writing found.The article was original published on 4 May 1999. The illustration shown in that…
Patently defamatory article against Michael Witzel in the December 25, 2005 edition of the rightwing New Delhi newspaper, The Pioneer: Harvard Don Denigrates Hindus Kanchan Gupta/ New Delhi Boorish comments denigrating India, Hindus and Hinduism by a self-proclaimed ‘Indologist’ who is on the faculty of Harvard University has unleashed afierce debate over the increasing political activism…
Here is a List of articles removed from the Hindutva-run phony Dalit Rights Site “dalithumanrights.com” between January 19 and January 21, 2006. Some of them were removed within 10 minutes of the time I published “Hindutva Wolves in Dalit Clothing” on the Indo-Eurasian_Research List. The vast majority of the articles are pro-Hindutva, with a couple…
Steve Farmer, Steven A. Weber, Tim Barela, Richard Sproat, and Michael Witzel. Harvard-Kyoto Roundtable, Kyoto, Japan, 6-8 June 2005 Presenter: Steve Farmer Abstract This paper explores key implications of the non-literate model of Indus civilization introduced by Farmer, Sproat, and Witzel 2004 The Collapse of the Indus-Script Thesis. Special attention is paid to the mythological and…
“Once a singleton, always a singleton?” — Richard Sproat For the full PDF file from which this page (17) is adapted (there are minor changes), go to safarmer.com/indusnotes.pdf. For full access to my articles and lectures available online, go to Article Downloads Steve Farmer, Ph.D. One test of whether Indus inscriptions are linguistic has developed out of a collaboration…