Shridhar Venkatesh Ketkar Quotes

sociologist, historian and novelist from Maharashtra, India (1884-1937)

Shridhar Venkatesh Ketkar (2 February 1884 – 10 April 1937) was a Marathi sociologist, historian and novelist from Maharashtra, India.

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Alternative Names: Shri Vyankatesh Bapuji Ketkar • Shri Shridhar Venkatesh Ketkar

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The opinions of best researchers in the matter of the age of the Ṛgveda differed not by a few centuries but by a few thousands of years.

Now it is clear that the presumption of 200 years for each of the literary epochs in the birth of the Veda is purely arbitrary... it was strangely forgotten on how weak a footing the prevailing view actually stood...” (Ketkar 1987:272)