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Hinduism Has Two Major Roots. The More Familiar Is The Religion Brought To South Asia In The Second Millennium Bce By Speakers Of Aryan Or Indo-iranian Languages, A Branch Of The Indo-european Language Family. Another, More Enigmatic, Root Is The Indus Civilization Of The Third Millennium Bce, Which Left Behind Exquisitely Carved Seals And Thousands Of Short Inscriptions In A Long-forgotten Pictographic Script. Discovered In The Valley Of The Indus River In The Early 1920s, The Indus Civilization Had A Population Estimated At One Million People, In More Than 1000 Settlements, Several Of Which Were Cities Of Some 50,000 Inhabitants. With An Area Of Nearly A Million Square Kilometers, The Indus Civilization Was More Extensive Than The Contemporaneous Urban Cultures Of Mesopotamia And Egypt. Yet, After Almost A Century Of Excavation And Research The Indus Civilization Remains Little Understood.^ How Might We Decipher The Indus Inscriptions? What Language Did The Indus People Speak? What Deities Did They Worship? Asko Parpola Has Spent Fifty Years Researching The Roots Of Hinduism To Answer These Fundamental Questions, Which Have Been Debated With Increasing Animosity Since The Rise Of

Author

Asko Parpola

Publisher

Oxford University Press, Incorporated; Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780190226947

Subjects

Religion, History, Humanities