The Indo-Aryan migration into the northern Punjab started shortly after the decline of the Indus Valley civilisation (IVC). According to the "Aryan Invasion Theory" this decline was caused by "invasions" of barbaric and violent Aryans who conquered the IVC.

Indo-Aryan peoples are a diverse collection of peoples predominantly found in South Asia, who (traditionally) speak Indo-Aryan languages. Historically, Aryans were the Indo-Iranian speaking pastoralists who migrated from Central Asia into South …

Since the Aryan invasion belongs to a period of considerable antiquity, and there is little physical evidence to support any authoritative conclusion, theories affirming (or opposing) the invasion hypothesis can vary from being wildly speculative at worst, to being reasonably plausible at best.

Mar 19, 2019 · There are different theories associated with the Aryans, their origins and possible migration/invasion in the Indian subcontinent. While the Indo-Iranian people used the term Aryan as self-designation, the Indic people of the Vedic period in India and the closely associated Iranian people used it as an ethnic label for themselves.

For almost 200 years, scholars and quasi scholars have attributed the linguistic, cultural, and racial affiliations of very disparate groups to a common Indo-Aryan heritage.

Sep 15, 2019 · Simply put, AIT states that India was invaded by Aryans, a fair blue-eyed nomadic tribe from Europe in 1,500 BC who drove out the dark, snub-nosed Dravidians to South India. Subsequently, these...

Indigenous Aryanism, also known as the Indigenous Aryans theory (IAT) and the Out of India theory (OIT), is the conviction [1] that the Aryans are indigenous to the Indian subcontinent, [2] and that the Indo-European languages radiated out …

The separation of Indo-Aryans proper from Proto-Indo-Iranians has been dated to roughly 2000–1800 B.C.E. Indian Archaeologists offer that the Indo-Aryans reached Assyria in the west and the Punjab in the east before 1500 B.C.E.

The Indo-Aryan Invasion theory, proposed in the 19th century, suggests that Indo-Aryan-speaking people migrated into the Indian subcontinent around 1500 BCE, influencing the culture and displacing indigenous populations.

Dec 20, 2023 · It argued that the Indo-Aryan languages originated outside of the Indian subcontinent and were brought in by an invading Aryan group. However, genetic studies have challenged this hypothesis and provided a more nuanced understanding of …