Some of the different views in the anti-AIT camp seem to be:
(a) OIT (Out of India theory), but taking IE as a given.
Here, people believe IE languages, PIE and Indo-Europeans are all facts (rather than assertions) but argue that they originated in India, meaning that the Urheimat is set in India.
(b) Others think AIT is highly unlikely/certainly didn't happen, but also treat IE as a given, though they admit the origin of the PIE language and the manner of distribution of IE languages is still a mystery.
(c ) Others question the interconnectedness or organisation of the Indo-European language family itself. (Of course, it naturally follows that there can be no AIT if there can be no Aryans when all the languages classed as IE today need not even be connected via an ancestral language PIE). 'Let's remain skeptical about PIE and even the specifics of IEL'
(d) The other group of people one can identify holds views somewhere in the spectrum between (b) and (c ). Also part of the 'Let's remain skeptical' crowd.
These include some people in IE Studies. Bruce Lincoln, Stefan Arvidsson whom Rajesh_g mentioned in other threads
(c ) and (d) includes the people who question one or more of the points listed in post 2 above.
(a) OIT (Out of India theory), but taking IE as a given.
Here, people believe IE languages, PIE and Indo-Europeans are all facts (rather than assertions) but argue that they originated in India, meaning that the Urheimat is set in India.
(b) Others think AIT is highly unlikely/certainly didn't happen, but also treat IE as a given, though they admit the origin of the PIE language and the manner of distribution of IE languages is still a mystery.
(c ) Others question the interconnectedness or organisation of the Indo-European language family itself. (Of course, it naturally follows that there can be no AIT if there can be no Aryans when all the languages classed as IE today need not even be connected via an ancestral language PIE). 'Let's remain skeptical about PIE and even the specifics of IEL'
(d) The other group of people one can identify holds views somewhere in the spectrum between (b) and (c ). Also part of the 'Let's remain skeptical' crowd.
These include some people in IE Studies. Bruce Lincoln, Stefan Arvidsson whom Rajesh_g mentioned in other threads
(c ) and (d) includes the people who question one or more of the points listed in post 2 above.