The problem with the "Myth of the Aryan Invasion 
of India" is not that an invasion by Aryans, a 
linguistic group, ocurred or not - that's a 
strawman argument. The question is, did the Aryan 
speaking people come from outside India or not? 
If, not they must be indigenous to the Asian 
Subcontinent. If they came from outside India, 
where and when did they come to India and why?

Most reasonable people accept the timelines and 
chronologies of both Indian and western scholarship 
based on the historical evidence, not on any Indian 
traditions. For example, all the evidence supports 
the conclusion that the Vedas were composed after 
the invention of the spoked wheel and the use of 
the horse as a conveyance - there is no evidence 
for the use of either before 1700 B.C. in India.

According to Indian scholarship, based on historical 
evidence, the Aryan speakers entered into India 
around 1700 B.C., just as the Indus Civilization was 
declining. The evidence is linguistic, archaeological, 
and textual. Historian agree that there is no mention 
of the Indus Valley Civilization in the Vedas, 
therefore, the Vedas must have been composed AFTER 1700 
B.C. While there is no mention of the Indus Valley 
Civilization, the Rig Veda mentions the use of iron, 
which was not smelted in India until after 1500 B.C.  

In contrast, according to Indian tradition, the Aryans 
were a race of people who spoke an eternal language 
called Sanskrit over a million years ago on Mt. Meru, 
before homo sapiens sapiens came out of Africa, before 
the dawn of civilization, before the invention of the 
wheel, before writing and the invention of agriculture. 

Read more:

'The Myth of the Aryan Invasion of India'
http://www.rwilliams.us/archives/indians.htm

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