> [[chatterji]]. *Balts and Aryans: In Their Indo-European Background*. Book published by the Indian institute of Advanced Study in 1968. > #nodoi > [pdf](chatterji1968.pdf) ## Contents ``` 1 Composite Character of the People and Culture of India: the Austrics, the Monogoloids, the Dravidians and the Aryans 2 The Aryans as a Branch of the Primitive IndoEuropeans (Indo-Hittites) in India 3 Diverse Races and Languages of the Peoples of Ancient Civilization 4 The Background of the Ancient Indo-European (or Indo-Hittite) Life and Culture 5 The Great Dialectal Divide among the Primitive Indo-Europeans 6 The Eastern Indo-Europeans 7 The Balts among the Indo-European Peoples 8 The Balt ‘ Character ’ 9 Records of the Ancient Balt Culture-world 10 The Baltic Daina and the Indo-Aryan Dhend in Vedic: the Dainas and their Primitive Indo-European Atmosphere 11 The Beauty and Power of the Baltic Dainas as Poetry: Some Appraisements by Specialists (Appendix to Chapter XI: Sanskrit Verses — Bhaṭikī Vēda-saṃhitā) 12 Baltic Life and Culture, vis-a-vis that of the Vedic Aryans and of India 13 A Conspectus of Baltic Religion within the Orbit of Indo-European Religion : Myths and Legends 14 Baltic History—Medieval and Modem: Recent Cultural Advancement in Arts and Letters 15 The Baltic Speech and Sanskrit 16 Specimens of Baltic (Lithuanian and Latvian), with English Translations Plates 1-20, at the end The Author ```