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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (5355)	7/28/1999 4:10:00 PM
From: ratan lal	Respond to of 12475

JPR No. Gidwani is a sindhi from Bombay. Tried to verify the above info and came up with: Aryans and their original homeland is a very vexed question. I saw a few posts on this topic. I would recommend the novel by Bhagwan S. Gidwani, "Return of the Aryans." In 900 pages the author has dealt with this question exhaustively. Although written in a novel form, his arguments draw on archaeological, historical, and literary evidence. In my humble opinion, it shouild be read by all who are interested in understanding the spirit of Aryan culture, people, and their religion. Gidwani effectively demonstrates the falsity of the Aryan Dravidian dichotomy, the division between Indo-Aryan and Dravidian languages etc. I have written a long article analyzing Return of the Aryan in a recent issue of New Quest, published from Pune, India. Return of the Aryan is published by Penguin Books, India and is now available in North America in book stores. Shrinivas Tilak hindunet.org I guess its off to the NEW QUEST and PENGUIN websites for more info. Thanks a lot. I hope that old saying about curiosity and the cat is not true. The other 3 were interviews with Phirangis. ratan

To: Mohan Marette who wrote (5355)	7/28/1999 4:45:00 PM
From: JPR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

Mohan: I thought this book was a novel written by some Indian living in Canada or something, is it not? RETURN OF THE ARYANS BY BHAGWAN S. GIDWANI. You are right. It is a novel. With the material available on this whole Aryan thing, Gidwani has woven the only available measly particles of information into a novel form. It is fiction, but not falsehood, according to him. The novel is based on dates, deeds, & doubts about Aryans. He believes, based on circumstantial evidence, that Sanskrit went out from India with Aryans to other lands and enriched their languages. He does believe that Sanskrit is partly the mother tongue of the European languages. As an evidentiary piece of information or lack thereof, he says that if Aryans came from foreign lands, there is no mention of those lands in Vedas, Upanishads, epics and other Aryan literature. He seems to imply that the Europeans, when they found a superior civilization in India, had to somehow weave the history in such way that they become full participants in the Indian civilization. Hence the words such as IndoEuropean languages etc. JPR