For Prof. Eaton’s information, it may be recalled that an extreme and willful superficiality regarding all matters religious is a key premise of Nehr… - Koenraad Elst

A historical view of caste, by contrast, concedes candidly that caste was intertwined with Hinduism for long, but equally shows that caste was initially absent and only intruded in stages. Hinduism can flourish all while letting caste wither away. That may satisfy at least the more fair-minded among Hinduism’s critics.

There is in Sanskrit literature exactly "one 'goldhaired' person that is not a god".... Quite possibly [he] was not gold-haired at all: he may have had one of the epithets of the solar deity Vishnu as his given name, just as most people called Nilakantha, "blue-throated" (after Shiva when he had swallowed poison) are not blue-throated at all.

The expansion of the kurgan culture over Europe, in three successive waves, is fairly well-attested archaeologically. About the supposed spread of the Indo-Europeans to India and Iran, Mrs. Gimbutas does not give details, and in the extant literature no archeaologically supported scenario of the Asian movement of the Indo-Europeans is available, the way we have mapped their spreading into Europe. On the contrary, when it comes to Asia, we find even the topmost indo-europeanists relying on the outdated theories à la Mortimer Wheeler, the chief proponent of the “Aryans destroyed Harappa” scenario, without fully checking the factual basis of these theories... While the Indo-European expansion in Europe is being researched thoroughly, their presence in Asia is still perceived through the misty glasses of outdated but uncritically accepted hypotheses, Much of current thinking on early Indo-European history in Asia is a projection of the better-known patterns of their expansion in the Balkan.