More Austric migration to India

Since the Tai-Ahoms and Khasi migrated to India in OTL, is it possible for more Austric people from Southern China to migrate to India before the Indo Europeans come and even change the racial and linguistic composition of the people of Bengal area and what will be the consequences in history of such changes?
 
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I don't think there's a single instance in all of history where a mountain tribal people have migrated to a broad, flat, fertile plain and "crowd out" the much more numerous and organized existing people. At least without Genghis Khan-style tactics, and he didn't succeed in the long term.
 
I don't think there's a single instance in all of history where a mountain tribal people have migrated to a broad, flat, fertile plain and "crowd out" the much more numerous and organized existing people. At least without Genghis Khan-style tactics, and he didn't succeed in the long term.

But isn't that what the Aryans or the Indo Europeans did?
 
But isn't that what the Aryans or the Indo Europeans did?

1) Bengals themselves are Indo-European.

2) It is highly debated whether there was an Aryan "invasion" or mere settlement.

3) The Aryans had access to horses and other means to subjugate vast areas. The Khasi and Mundari had...elephants?

4) The premise of this thread is the equivalent of the Irish Celts migrating in overwhelming numbers to settle Gaul and Hispania and demographically subjugate the Romanified Celts after the collapse of the Roman Empire.
 
1) Bengals themselves are Indo-European.

2) It is highly debated whether there was an Aryan "invasion" or mere settlement.

3) The Aryans had access to horses and other means to subjugate vast areas. The Khasi and Mundari had...elephants?

4) The premise of this thread is the equivalent of the Irish Celts migrating in overwhelming numbers to settle Gaul and Hispania and demographically subjugate the Romanified Celts after the collapse of the Roman Empire.

The POD is before the Indo Europeans arrive in India.
 
I don't think there's a single instance in all of history where a mountain tribal people have migrated to a broad, flat, fertile plain and "crowd out" the much more numerous and organized existing people. At least without Genghis Khan-style tactics, and he didn't succeed in the long term.

Actually I can think of the Thai in Menam Valley and other parts of Indochina. From what I gather, they basically assimilated the pre-existing populace but of course did not wipe it out. While I don't think that a similar pattern may be seen in ALL Bengal, the eastern part ( more or less what's today Bangladesh) was not so heavily populated at the time of the Khasi migration (that, by the way, AFAIK was after the arrival of the Aryans, though I'm not sure).
The easternmost parts of India have a complex, fascinating, little-known history.
 
The Tai's of China did settle south into modern day Thailand. Back then the natives to say were very Indianised. When the Tai's arrived they mixed and a nice fusion occurred.
 
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