Sri David Frawley once noted a highly anomalous paradox in Indian history. On the one hand, we had the largest bronze age civilization of the world. The Sindhu-Saraswathi civilization(SSC). It was many times larger in its geographical extent than contemporary Mesopotamia and Egypt put together. It had a population estimated at around five million. That number hovered anywhere around 20% of humanity in 2000 BC. Yet despite this massiveness of its praja and samrajya , the ruins of the Sindhu and Saraswathi appear dumb and speechless, their uncracked aksharas appear hollow and silent. They have nothing to tell us, who they were or what happened to them, despite their greatness. On the other hand, we also have the largest and most sophisticated literature from the bronze age. The Vedic corpus. It’s massive scale, its literary evolution, its philosophical, mathematical and astronomical content and their progression is unrivalled in the ancient world. It describes great kingdoms, trade...