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Why are you being down voted... By the time alexander showed up India had spoken an indo European language for thousands of years.


People don't like getting their dogmas challenged, especially when it comes to their Fathers' sins.


His first sentence is reasonable. The rest of the comment is unhinged.


> The theory of an immigration of IA speaking Arya ("Aryan invasion") is simply seen as a means of British policy to justify their own intrusion into India and their subsequent colonial rule: in both cases, a "white race" was seen as subduing the local darker colored population.

Source: Edwin Bryant in https://archive.org/details/EdwinBryantLauriePattonIndoAryan...




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