Aryan Invasion/migration Theories & Debates -2

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<!--QuoteBegin-Bodhi+Aug 25 2006, 12:22 AM-->QUOTE(Bodhi @ Aug 25 2006, 12:22 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin-digvijay+Aug 23 2006, 12:45 PM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(digvijay @ Aug 23 2006, 12:45 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Husky,
  Is the forum aware of the motivations which led to the development of IE? Sir William Jones's main motivation was to prove the biblical origin of the world. He propunded the "Common origin of Languages" to prove the biblical Tower of Babel. Then he goes on to say that Ham (called Ram in India) fathered the Indian race whose brother was Japhet.
So my question has any one proven ( I have not seen a proof) that Iranian of Avesta is the precursor to Sanskrit? I have read Jones, we know his motivations. Even modern linguists that I have read accept Jones as gospel.  But has anyone seen a carefully constructed proof?

-Digvijay
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I am just cross-posting a previous post.

To try and see firsthand what Jones was trying to do - I looked up the internet. Looks like the writings of Mr. William Jones has been published in 1993 as "The Collected Works of Sir William Jones" which contains 6240 pages!! It is only printed by New York University Press, it costs a 1000 USD, and is out of print currently. I have also searched the cataogues of libraries I have access to, and the book is not available anywhere.

Here is the info from NYUP. http://www.nyupress.org/books/The_Collecte...ts_id-2036.html

Any idea where his works can be accessed? And how come NYUP is publishing his works - Rather than UK or Indian presses??? Is that normal?

Digvijay : Since you say you have read Jones, please educate me how. Which book of his, and how to get it...is there an online resource...I saw website of Asiatic soceity calcutta too, nothing major available on Jones.....

Thanks
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Bodhi,
I know the difficulty in getting to Jones's books. American university is publishing because no one else is interested!
Best would be to get a hold of these two books:

1) Aryans and British India by Thomas R. Trautmann (Paperback - Jan 2004)

2) The Aryan Debate (Oxford in India Readings: Debates in Indian History and Society) by Thomas Trautmann (Hardcover - Oct 21, 2005)

Trautmann is a prof at University of Michigan and has extensive quotations from Jones's works.

-Digvijay