The Vedic People, Frontline, 9-Dec-2000

"HISTORY cannot be written without implicating the historian," says Rajesh Kochhar as he begins his journey into the remote past. By any standards, he is an unconventional historian, an astrophysicist who has equipped himself with the tools of diverse di sciplines - ethnography, linguistics, metallurgy, paleobotany, among others - to interpret a period which to this day remains wrapped in mystery. More than the obscurity of the archaeological and scriptural records, the more formidable barriers to unders tanding have been posed by the layers of political partisanship that the study of the Vedas - as historical documents - have acquired over the years.". >>>