Nicholas Kazanas (born 1939) is a Greek Indologist. He was born in 1939 in Chios, Greece.
He studied at University College, Economics and Philosophy at the School of Economic Science and Sanskrit at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, and did a post-graduate at SOAS and at Deccan College in Pune. He taught in London and Athens. Since 1980 he leads the Omilos Meleton Cultural Institute. He is on the Editorial Board of Adyar Library Bulletin.
His work was criticized by M Witzel, Richard Meadow, Martin Huld, Edwin Bryant, D. P. Agrawal, Asko Parpola, Stefan Zimmer, J. P. Mallory, Elena Kuzmina and others.
He was one of the few contributors in a special volume of the Journal of Indo-European Studies on the Indo-Aryan migration theory who argued against the theory. Kazanas' paper was criticized by nine scholars, among them JP Mallory. In the latter issue of the Journal of Indo-European Studies, Kazanas responded to all his critics in the article ‘Final Reply’.
Economic principles in the Vedic tradition 2010
Indo-Aryan origins and other Vedic issues 2009
Vedic and Mesopotamian interactions 2007
Vedic Vāc and Greek logos as creative power: a critical study 2009
"Indo-European Deities and the Rigveda," Journal of Indo-European Studies, vol. 29 (2001), p. 257.
"Indigenous Indo-Aryans and the Rigveda," Journal of Indo-European Studies, vol. 30 (2002), p. 275.
"Final Reply," Journal of Indo-European Studies, vol 31 (2003), p. 187.
"Rgveda 7.95.2 and Karen Thomson," Journal of Indo-European Studies, vol. 38 (2010), p. 409.
N. Kazanas, A new date for the Rgveda Philosophy and Chronology, (2000) ed. G C Pande & D Krishna, special issue of Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research (June, 2001)
Advaita & Gnosticism, VVRI Research Bulletin (Hoshiarpur), vol, 2 (43-112), 2003.
1999 ‘The Rigveda and IndoEuropeans’ Annals Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, vol, 80 (pp 15–42).
2001b ‘Archaic Greece and the Veda’ in ABORI, vol. 82, in press.
2004 ‘Plato and the Upaniṣads’ in Brahmavidyā: Adyar Library Bulletin.
2005 ‘Philosophy and Self-realization in the Ṛgveda’ Self Society and Science... ed D.P. Chattopadhyaya, PHISPC vol. XI, pt2 (21-42), N. Delhi, Centre for Studies in Civilization.
Anatolian bull and Vedic horse in the Indo-European diffusion. 2005. Adyar Library Bulletin (2003)
Coherence and preservation in Sanskrit VVRI 2006
Diffusion of Indo-European Theonyms: what they show us. 2005 .Quarterly Journal of the Mythic Society (Bangalore), vol. 97, no. 1 (Jan-March 2006).
Vedic and Mesopotamian cross-influences. 2004 (Published in Migration & Diffusion (Vienna) 2005 and by the Adyar Library Bulletin (2006: Olcott commemorative issue). This was also incorporated in the study Vedic, Mesopotamian and Egyptian Religiophilosophical Thought (in print by PHISPC in the volume Chain of Golden Civilizations)
Advaita & Gnosticism. Published in VVRI Research Bulletin (Hoshiarpur), vol. 2 (43-112), 2003.
'Greek Philosophy up to Aristotle' November 2003. PHISPC
Vedic and Egyptian Affinities.(2002, 2006 in Puratattva. Also incorporated in the study Vedic, Mesopotamian and Egyptian Religiophilosophical Thought (in print by PHISPC in the volume Chain of Golden Civilizations))
'Education & Ethics (presented at the New Delhi Conference organized by UNESCO and the Indian Ministry of Civilization on 'Dialogue among Civilizations: Quest for New Perspectives' 9–10 July 2003.)
