T I M E L I N E
== A very
helpful timeline, with maps: *Metropolitan Museum*
I M A G E S
== Even
before the Vedas: everything you always
wanted to know about the Indus Valley Civilization,
at *harappa.com*
== Pages
from Vedic manuscripts: *Schoyen Collection*
== Samples
of Vedic chant: *BBC*
T E X T S
== Prof.
Raimon Panikkar, "The Vedic Experience: Hinduism's
Contemporary Holy Bible": *himalayanacademy*
== A. A.
Macdonnell's classic introduction (1917) to the
Vedic gods: *sacred-texts*
== Vedic
texts online: the Rig Veda translated by
Ralph Griffith (1896): *sacred-texts*
== Compare
the Rig Veda with the Zend Avesta: *avesta.org*
== The best
website on Proto-Indo-European and its language
family: *PIE*
==
Controversies about the Indus Valley and Vedic times
are alive and well in modern India; a recent (2000)
notable example was the "Horseplay in Harappa"
episode, reported in *Frontline magazine*
== The Vedas
in a British colonial perspective: the *Imperial Gazetteer of India
(1908-31)*
== Wendy Doniger,
"The Land East of the Asterisk" (2008): *London Review of Books*