A Brief Note on the Aryan Invasion Theory

✍ Scribed by Danino M.

• Tongue: English
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✦ Synopsis

Article // PRAGATI Quarterly Research Journal. — 2009. — Vol. 3, Issue No.108 — Pp. 5-20.

In the last two or three decades, the theory of an invasion of the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent by Aryans (sometimes called Indo-Aryans) around 1500 BCE, followed by the spread of their superior Vedic culture and Sanskrit language, has been challenged by a growing number of archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, Indologists and Vedic scholars from the U.S.A., Europe and India.
This theory (henceforth AIT) was born early in the 19th century from comparative philology: it provided a convenient explanation of the newly discovered kinship between Sanskrit and Europe’s languages (the Indo-European family of languages).
This brief note presents a summary of the main scientific fields that have made AIT a discredited theory.

✦ Subjects

Исторические дисциплины;Всемирная история;История древнего мира;Ранняя история индоевропейцев