The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c14.s1.t2.30

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Before we close our summary of the problem of the Aryans, a slight digression into the Harappan will not be out of place. T. N. Ramachandran has put in a very powerful plea for identifying the Indus valley civilization itself with the Aryan. While he claims to have deciphered the script on the seals, he has continued the line of studies started by him earlier, the interpretation of art motifs with the help of literature. He interprets the seals—their pictographs, scriptographs and the script—with the help of corresponding verses from the Rigveda.² This is in line with Hronzy's earlier attempts, who also read the Indus valley language as Indo-Aryan.³ As already stated earlier, this hypothesis cannot be accepted nor completely refuted, till the script is deciphered with the help of some bi-lingual seals or inscriptions. It is therefore, a problem of methodology.