On: Color or Fruit? The Unlikely Etymology of “Orange”

[dzhshnacct]

yes the site is anathema to indian marxists

please argue on merits of the content of the article

if you think there is something false please point to the specifics

[iamshs → dzhshnacct]

Indian marxist? No wonder you belong and advocate views of Hindu nationalist party of India, BJP. Pathetic diss.

Two Points regarding the article:- 1. Author says agriculture first started in Sri Lanka, and then uses that to say India was the country where agriculture started. Completely ignoring the fact that Sri Lanka is not in India.

2. Author says, "India cannot now be ruled out as the home of the grape, in which case, we would have a Neolithic-era spread of a crop from India to the FC and beyond."

His whole assertion is this paper [A], where all the paper authors say is that grape could have been present in India before the presently accepted timeline, they don't say anything about India being home of the grape or even if grape spread out from India. IndiaFacts did quite a reach there just for proving supremacy of India.

So yeah again, a better site for your ignorant BS. It is better to not bring your level of discourse to this site.

[A] - http://www.currentscience.ac.in/Downloads/article_id_097_04_...

[dzhshnacct → iamshs]

17.5kya lanka was part of the indian landmass according to the article due to sea level differences

rest of your nit picking i will ignore since you seem to have accepted and not disputed the main claim of lankan agri well before the fertile crescent

[iamshs → dzhshnacct]

>17.5kya lanka was part of the indian landmass according to the article due to sea level differences

Any other independent source for it?

[dang → dzhshnacct]

Can you please not use HN for ideological and nationalistic argument? This is definitely not what the site is for, and you've done it a lot already.