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B. B. Lal
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“I don't say so, but my spade tells me so.”
B. B. Lal (1921–2022) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: B.B. Lal's reply to his critics (traditional Hindus). As related and quoted in Elst, Koenraad (2012). The argumentative Hindu. New Delhi : Aditya Prakashan. Chapter: Ayodhya’s three history debates.
“It is true that the Rigveda does not provide us details of the inner layout of these forts, but surely the text was not meant to be a treatise on Vastusastra. May it be remembered that it is essentially a compilation of prayers to gods and should be looked at as such. All the evidence that it provides regarding the material culture of the then people is only incidental.”
B. B. Lal (1921–2022) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Aryan invasion of India: perpetuation of a myth, In: Edwin F. Bryant and Laurie L. Patton Indo-Aryan Controversy: Evidence and Inference in Indian History. — 1st ed. — London: Routledge, 2005. p.67.
“The great civilization of the Indian subcontinent, has had its roots deep in antiquity, some seven to eight thousand years ago, and its flowering in the third millennium B.C. still lives on. In contrast, when we look round the world we are surprised by the fact that the Egyptian and Mesopotamia civilizations that flourished alongside this Indic Civilization have all disappeared, leaving hardly any trace behind. Why? The Indian psyche has indeed been pondering over this great cultural phenomenon of 'livingness', and this quest.”
B. B. Lal (1921–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What is that ‘something’, some inherent strength? Doubtless it lies in the liberal character of the Indian civilization, which allows for cross-fertilization with other cultures, without losing its own identity. Even time (kala), the great devourer, has stood testimony to the fact that the deep foundations of Indian culture could not be shaken either by internal upheavals, however great may have been their magnitude.... " the soul of India lives on!”
B. B. Lal (1921–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Here it may perhaps be stated straightaway that so far no unimpeachable evidence has been adduced to prove or even to disprove either of the above-mentioned theories. (about Indo-Aryan invasions or migrations) In such a situation there is little wonder that guesses run wild and pride and prejudice safely prey on them.”
B. B. Lal (1921–2022) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted from B.B. Lal in : Indian History and Culture Society., Devahuti, D., & Indian History and Culture Society. (2012). Bias in Indian historiography. 6.
“Under a project called ‘Archaeology of the Ramayana Sites’ excavations were carried out between 1975 and 1986 at five sites, viz. Ayodhya, Sringaverapura, Bharadvaja Asrama, Chitrakuta and Nandigrama, all associated with that epic.”
B. B. Lal (1921–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the mosque there are fourteen stone pillars some of which appear to be in position and oriented east-west and north-south. On the basis of the decorative motifs, sculptures, etc. these pillars are also ascribed to the eleventh century A.D. In all probability, there the brick-bases found in the excavations and the stone pillars standing in the mosque belong to one and the same structural complex which stood at the site immediately before the Babri Masjid.”
B. B. Lal (1921–2022) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 3 December 1990 B.B. Lal” “A note on the brick-bases of pillars found in the excavations in the Janma-Bhumi area at Ayodhya. quoted in Kishore, Kunal (2016). Ayodhyā revisited., in Jain, M. (2017). The battle of Rama: C…
“The supporters of the Aryan-invasion theory have not been able to cite even a single example where is evidence of 'invaders.' represented either by weapons of warfare or even of cultural remains left by them.”
B. B. Lal (1921–2022) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: quoted in Danino, M. (2009). A BRIEF NOTE ON THE ARYAN INVASION THEORY. PRAGATI| April-June 2009
“Lal (1997, 9) considers the Sarasvati to have been alive in Kalibangan in the third millennium B.C.E. and dried up at the turn of the millennium: "The Sarasvati dried up around 2000 BC. This clearly establishes that the Rigveda, which speaks of the Sarasvati as a mighty flowing river, has to be assigned to a period prior to 2000 BC. By how many centuries it cannot be said for certain" (Lal, forthcoming).”
B. B. Lal (1921–2022) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lal quoted in Bryant, E. F. (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture : the Indo-Aryan migration debate. Oxford University Press. chapter 9
“The obvious result [of the diversion of the Sarasvatī’s waters into the Yamuna system] was the migration of the [Harappan] people towards the north-east where some water was still available in the uppermost reaches of the Sarasvatī and Ghaggar and further east in the upper plains of the Gangā-Yamunā Doāb.’”
B. B. Lal (1921–2022) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lal, B.B., The Sarasvati Flows On°, p. 77.in Danino, M. (2010). The lost river : on the trail of the Sarasvatī. Penguin Books India.
“At Ayodhya, as many as fourteen trenches were laid out at different spots, one of which was the area known as the Janmabhumi. Over here is a trench hardly three metres to the south of the compound wall of the structure known as Babri Masjid, a series of square brick-bases, running in parallel east-west and north-south rows, were discovered within about 25-30 cm. below the surface. Since one row of these pillar-bases lay under the edge of the trench towards the compound wall of the mosque, it is likely that there may exist many more such pillar-bases in the unexcavated area in that direction. Stratigraphic evidence indicates that these pillar-bases are ascribable to a period around A.D. 1100. From the level associated with the destruction of these pillar-bases has been found glazed pottery ascribable to fourteenth-fifteenth century A.D.”
B. B. Lal (1921–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To put the tale synoptically. The Harappan cities collapsed, the civilization declined, but the people survived it all, though bereft of their glorious past. Their great, great, great _.. grandfathers had brought into being these Gites — gradually from a village economy to that of a town and through great strides to that of a city. The decline of the civilization entailed an end of the cities and reversed the direction. To borrow a simile, the Harappan urbanism may be likened to a storm on the vast ocean of Indian time, which raged, held on for some time but finally subsided, leaving the waters as placid as before. Cities came and went, but the villages kept on for ever!”
B. B. Lal (1921–2022) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lal, B. B. (1997). The earliest civilization of South Asia : rise, maturity, and decline. Aryan Books International., page 279