"He even-handedly takes up three Aryan Invasion interpretations and three Indian Origin interpretations from the Vedic texts, and cautions us at the very outset (HOCK 2005:283) that âthe passages in question and their interpretation do not provide cogent support for the hypotheses they are supposed to supportâ, while reasonably conceding that âthis does not mean that either of the two theories is therefore invalidated. It merely means that the evidence in question is not sufficiently cogent to provide support for the respective hypothesis and therefore must be considered irrelevant. First of all, neither hypothesis rests solely on the evidence here examined; and it is in principle perfectly possible that other evidence can show one hypothesis to be superior to the otherâ. He even reasonably concedes the possibility that âany new evidence or better interpretation would, in true scientific spirit, be able to overturn the so far victorious hypothesisâ, or that âin principle none of the currently available evidence stands up under scrutiny and that nevertheless, one or the other hypothesis was historically coreect, except that the evidence in its favour has not been preserved for usâ. ... And in his conclusion to the article, he writes: âPersonally, I feel that most of the evidence and arguments that have been offered in favor either of the Aryan In-Migration hypothesis or of the Out-of-India are inconclusive at closer examinationâ (HOCK 2005:303)."
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