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[quote=Anonymous]I found another site that actually says Sanskrist is not IE. Not surprisingly it is from the encyclopedia of authentic Hinduism.

here is more on Sanskrit and hindutva

http://scroll.in/article/737715/fact-check-india-wasnt-the-first-place-sanskrit-was-recorded-it-was-syria

https://robertlindsay.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/why-hindutvas-reject-the-aryan-migration-theory/

http://creative.sulekha.com/the-great-aryan-non-debate_184688_blog

"As Prof. Stephanie Jamison of UCLA recently put it, “The Indo-Aryan controversy is a manufactured one with a non-scholarly agenda, and the tactics of the manufacturers are very close to those of the ID [Intelligent Design] proponents…real scientific questions are being debated on what is essentially a religio-nationalistic attack on a scholarly consensus.” "

"There is no evidence of human destruction in Harappa, hence there could not have been an Aryan invasion; this, in turn, proves that the Aryans were indigenous, goes his argument. Frawley, a.k.a. Vamadeva Shastri, uses the classic Hindutva tactic of setting up a proposition that does not truly represent an opponent’s viewpoint, and then proceeding to ‘demolish’ it and declaring victory. In this case, it is a well known fact that the term ‘invasion’ coined by Max Mueller was universally rejected by scholars decades ago in favor of ‘migrations,’ which is what is actually described in most California textbooks, notwithstanding the curriculum standards. Yet, Frawley insists on clubbing the two terms together, and makes the pretense that invalidating Aryan ‘invasions’ somehow also invalidates Aryan ‘migrations.’ "

"Hindutva groups have made much of recent DNA evidence to legitimize their Aryan indigenity argument. One such study by Sahoo, et. al. [17] had concluded that the genetic contribution of the west to Indian caste groups appears small -- contradicting earlier studies, based on paternally inherited Y-chromosomes, which had concluded that upper castes are significantly more similar to Europeans than are lower castes. [18]

This much-vaunted study, however, did not explain some of its own possibly significant data, which, for instance, indicated that the ‘genetic distance’ of Eastern Europeans from ‘South Indian castes’ is three times that from ‘North Indian castes’ -- which seemed to echo earlier findings that upper castes in northern India were much closer to Central Asian populations than those in southern India. [19] Instead, the researchers appeared to leap to a much broader conclusion, obviously pleasing to Hindutvadis: “[the data] argue against any major influx from regions north and west of India, of people associated with either with the development of agriculture or the spread of Indo-Aryan language family.”

Do such DNA studies exonerate opponents of Aryan ‘migrations’? Not by a long shot. As the leader of the research team himself conceded in interviews, the study only dealt with the low presence of western genes in Indian castes and that the Indian subcontinent may have acquired agricultural techniques and languages from the west [20]: "The fact that Indo-European speakers are predominantly found in northern parts of the subcontinent may be because they were in direct contact with the Indo-European migrants, where they could have a stronger influence on the native populations to adopt their language and other cultural entities." This information, which seems to support what Prof. Jamison calls into-India language-migration theory, is obviously not something that Hindutvadis (who chafe at the very suggestion that Vedic culture and Sanskrit could have come from outside current-day India) are sharing widely with their constituencies.

In reality, genetic studies are in still in their infancy. Contradictory conclusions reached by research teams appear sometimes to be influenced by ideological considerations. There is no real ancient DNA material available at this point; and error bars in the studies, which use modern DNA, run into many thousands of years. If such studies disprove that the Aryan came from outside India, they could, with equal veracity, also ‘disprove’ the idea of Muslim invasions in the Middle Ages. It is therefore not surprising that a book covering the controversy in great detail did not give genetics any serious consideration."

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