Deshpande Madhav M., Hook Peter E. (eds.). Aryan and Non-Aryan in India

Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia, Number 14
Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1979 — 315 pp.The history and mechanisms of the convergence of ancient Aryan and non-Aryan cultures has been a subject of continuing fascination in many fields of Indology. The papers in this volume are the fruit of a conference on that topic held in December 1976 at The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, under the auspices of the Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies. The expressed object of the conference was to examine the latest findings from a variety of disciplines as they relate to the formation and integration of a unified Indian culture from many disparate cultural and ethnic elements. Reading them one will notice how often questions posed by one discipline lend themselves to the methodologies or discoveries of another. It is to be hoped that the publication of these essays will help stimulate further progress in the interdisciplinary approach to the study of Indian civilization and to the study of cultural convergence in other parts of the worldAryan and Non-Aryan in South Asia — A. L. Basham
The Nature of Tamil Devotion — George L. Hart, III
The Marriage of Heroines and the Definition of a Literary Area in South and Central Asia — Peter Edwin Hook
Aryan and Non-Aryan Elements in North Indian Agriculture — Colin P. Masica
The Study of Dravidian Kinship — Thomas R. Trautmann
Linguistic Prehistory: The Dravidian Situation — David W. McAlpin
Lexical Evidence for Early Contacts Between Indo-Aryan and Dravidian — Franklin C. Southworth
Genesis of Rgvedic Retroflexion: A Historical and Sociolinguistic Investigation — Madhav M. Deshpande