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(From The Statesman (India))
The Vedic Age and the Coming of Iron c1500-700 BC By Irfan Habib and Vijay Kumar Thakur Tulika 100pp, Rs 195 There was once a place called Hariyupriya, where a battle was fought on the banks of the river. Who fought with whom? Was this the pre-historic town of Harappa? Did the 'Aryans' attack it? Or were the Aryans (as the sangh parivar alleges nowadays) the very same people who built the town and authored the Indus civilization? The One that breathed by Oneself before the beginning of creation, without any air (so the Aryans speculated), might have the answers, but not the historian. As far as our view goes on the present state of the evidence, Habib and Thakur have drawn the …