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'''Dr. Prodosh Aich''' (born 1933) is a retired Bengali-Indian professor, formerly of the University of Oldenburg, and the author of several books.<ref name="ucr">University of California, Riverside - {{cite web|url=http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~legneref/bronze/aich.htm |title=Lügen mit langen Beinen — Dr Horst Friedrich, FMES, Wörthsee, Germany — THE "INDO-EUROPEANS" AND THE CONCEPT OF "LANGUAGE FAMILIES"; - In: MIDWESTERN EPIGRAPHIC JOURNAL, Volume 17, Number 2, 2003|quote=Prodosh Aich, a Bengali Indian who has, however, for decades been a member of the German academic Establishment. He has studied ethnology, philosophy, and sociology at Cologne University and has taught sociology at universities in Cologne, Rajasthan (India), and Oldenburg. |publisher=faculty.ucr.edu|accessdate=2012-02-13}}</ref>
He is chiefly known for his German language publication ''Lies With Long Legs'', (''Lügen mit langen Beinen''), that questions the foundations and veracity of Indology, Indologists, Aryans, Sanskrit, Hinduism, Indo-European-language families and race along with many more.<ref name="ucr"/><ref name="R1">{{cite web |url=http://haindavakeralam.com/HKPage.aspx?PageID=11325&SKIN=B |title="Fundamentals of Indology wrong" , "Max Mueller a Swindler" - Interview with Prof Prodosh Aich |publisher=haindavakeralam.org |accessdate=2012-02-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120215004720/http://www.haindavakeralam.com/HKPage.aspx?PageID=11325&SKIN=B |archive-date=15 February 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hinduwisdom.info/aryan_invasion_theory2.htm|title=Motives of the British East India Company — To convert and Conquer|publisher=hinduwisdom.info |accessdate=2012-02-13}}</ref>
==Biography== {{expand section|date=February 2012}} He was born in 1933 in Calcutta (now Kolkata), India. He did his high school and philosophical studies in India, and studied sociology, ethnology, and philosophy at the University of Cologne in Germany. He also taught sociology at the University of Rajasthan, University of Cologne and Oldenburg University.<ref name="ucr"/><ref name="R1"/><ref name="bio">[http://prodosh-aich.de/authors.html PRODOSH AICH was born in Calcutta in 1933] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130211185333/http://prodosh-aich.de/authors.html |date=2013-02-11 }}</ref><ref>SpringerLink - {{cite journal|journal=Minerva|volume=1|issue=4|page=530|doi=10.1007/BF01107193 |publisher=Springer, Part of Springer Science+Business Media |quote=Dr.Prodosh Aich ..research associate of the institute for Sociology at University of Cologne|title=Contributors|date=Summer 1963}}</ref>
He has published many essays and papers in readers and journals and made several documentary films as well as authored several books.<ref name="ucr"/><ref name="bio"/>
==Bibliography== * ''Truths - European Christians in History'' in 2015 *''Lies With Long Legs — Discoveries, Scholars, Science, Enlightenment Documentary Narration'' (''Lügen mit langen Beinen'', German) in 2003. *''Thorns on a Righteous Path'' (''Preis des aufrechten Gangs'', German) in 2001. *''Coloured amongst whites'' (''Farbige unter Weissen'', German) in 1962.
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *[https://archive.today/20130210061621/http://www.acharyya.de/lies-with-long-legs.html ''Lies with Long Legs''] *{{YouTube|gc5pNdcDNOQ|Jene Sprache namens Sanskrit Teil 1}} *{{YouTube|X98r6iNEhMo|Jene Sprache namens Sanskrit Teil 2}} *[https://www.tribuneindia.com/2005/20050918/spectrum/book1.htm Lies with Long Legs Review] *Zimbio - [http://www.zimbio.com/Max+Mueller/articles/g5ohQZJjM3z/Max+Mueller+was+a+Swindler Indian Professor Prodosh Aich, calls Indologist Max Mueller a "swindler". He describes yet another Indologist William Jones a "fraud"]
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