Review of Charles Allen’s Aryans: The Search for a People, a Place and a Myth
The HinduPublished : May 16, 2024 11:00 IST - 9 MINS READ Aryans: The Search for a People, a Place and a Myth is the last book that Charles Allen, who passed away in 2020 at the age of 80, wrote. Aryans: The Search for a People, a Place and a Myth By Charles Allen Hachette India Pages: xii + 388 Price: Rs.799 Consider, for instance, Chapter III, where Allen gives an account of the Scythians from the 8th to the 5th centuries BCE, based in some parts on Herodotus. “What have they got to do,” writes Allen, “with the Aryans and the origins of the Indo-European language family two thousand years earlier? Fire, maths and the wheel Allen introduces the kurgan on the very first page of this part and elaborates it in a chapter entitled “the Kurgan Hypothesis”. It remains a weakness that it does not prove archaeological and cultural links between the Bronze Age culture of the Pontic-Caspian steppe and Hittite Anatolia, Vedic India and Avestan Iran.” In the third part of the book with four chapters, Allen turns to Iran and South Asia.
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