I've often wondered how many people in these forums believe the Aryan invasions actually happened. I personally believe that the divided between the so called happen.(I know, this is indian nationalist stuff and cliched a bit), but I would like to know thers opinions on this?
I've got a few arguments first though:
1. If the Aryans were Central Asians, why aren't most Afghani, Pashtun, Sindhi and Kashmiri people sinocized?
2. Sanskrit is an 'Aryan' language. Yet they have made discoveries of statues with Vedic inscriptions pre-dating the estimated time of the invasions by 200-300 years.
3.Most Indian languages are offshoots of Sanskrit. (except Malyalee I'm pretty sure) Even the ones were the 'Dravidian' population is of the majority. Is this a case of rulers imposing their language on the commoners?
The rest of it is up to you for discussion.......