"Among the Western scholars who take part today in the debates on the Indo-Europeans, I know some whose erudition is n…"

"[T]here is no direct evidence for the culture of the Indo-Europeans, with the result that researchers have used their…"

"These prehistoric peoples have preoccupied people in modern times primarily because they were, to use the words of Cl…"

"The discourse about the Indo-Europeans was also dependent on the most powerful movement of the nineteenth century, im…"

"The scholarship about the Indo-Europeans, their culture, and their religion has been an attempt to create new categor…"

"It is important to realize, however, that the exaltation of the Indo-Europeans or the Aryans—especially during the ni…"

"'Germanism' arose amidst the peculiar political condition of nineteenth century Germany. . . . it has become the poli…"

"Indo-European research has, in many ways, been an attempt to write the origin narrative of the bourgeois class — a na…"

"Skepticism in scholarly circles grew rapidly after 1880. The obvious impossibility of actually locating the Aryan hom…"

"We should not be misled by this into thinking that these scholars were anti-racist. They did not have to rely on a th…"