03-28-2005, 06:41 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->If Indo-European is the term that suits you, I highly recommend you taking a look at this;
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I am sick of this "Indo-European" crap. Just another colonial era ploy to appropriate Samskrutha and divide Indians. All these languages borrowed some words from Samskrutha and the people some civilizing ideas from Hindus and now they are trying to strut around laying claim to Samskrutha via this "Indo-European" nonsense.
High time we introduce alternate theories like we did against "Aryan Invasion" theories.
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I am sick of this "Indo-European" crap. Just another colonial era ploy to appropriate Samskrutha and divide Indians. All these languages borrowed some words from Samskrutha and the people some civilizing ideas from Hindus and now they are trying to strut around laying claim to Samskrutha via this "Indo-European" nonsense.
High time we introduce alternate theories like we did against "Aryan Invasion" theories.