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	Sanskrit, an Indo-European language
		That they were composed a fair time after the arrival of the Aryans in India is shown both by the absence of any reference to a homeland outside India and by divergences, principally phonetic, in the language itself from what can be reconstructed as the common Indo-Iranian tongue.
		The earliest Indo-Iranian speakers are conveniently known as Aryans, from the name which they gave themselves (Sanskrit arya, Avestan airya - from the latter the modern name Iran is derived, while the name "Eire", at the other end of the Indo-European spectrum, may also be cognate).
		Although the language of the Aryans established itself over most of Northern India, it seems that in the long run the Aryans were affected both culturally and linguistically by the peoples they conquered, and Dravidian and Munda influences (particularly the former) can be traced in the development of Sanskrit itself.
	www.muz-online.de /sprache/sanskrit2.html (1438 words)

	UNE University Library Electronic Resources FAQ Aryan Invasion
		Homeland of Indo-European Languages and Culture: Some Thoughts Argues that there was no Indo-European invasion and that the Aryans were indigenous to India.
		Aryans in the Archaeological Record: The Evidence outside the Subcontinent -- 11.
		Aryans in the Archaeological Record: The Evidence inside the Subcontinent -- 12.
	www.une.edu.au /library/faqs/hist142_aryan_invasion.htm (749 words)

	Aryan Invasions
		However, 'works' is a relative term: the importance of the presence of any Hurrians and Indo-Aryans in the Hyksos migration seems to have been largely confined to military technology; the Huns had no long-term influence on Europe and the Turks who formed the core of the Moghuls in India left virtually no trace there.
		Childe subsequently avoided all mention of his book The Aryans, although in fact it offered no evidence in favour of the delusion of racial superiority and was very careful to distinguish between language and culture and supposed racial classifications.
		Colin Renfrew writes that, after Hitler's use of the Aryan theme, "Childe subsequently avoided all mention of his book The Aryans, although in fact it offered no evidence in favour of the delusion of racial superiority and was very careful to distinguish between language and culture and supposed racial classifications" (Archaeology and Language, p.
	users.cyberone.com.au /myers/gimbutas.html (20924 words)

	India Timeline 1: Early India
		In this period, the Aryans establish themselves in the fertile Ganges plain region, with large states ruled by kings claiming divine descent, and the development of cities and a rich merchant class.
		The Aryans are said to have entered India through the Khyber Pass and invaded or perhaps more peacefully intermingled with the Indus Valley peoples at least since 1600 BCE, and perhaps earlier.
		Bronze users and horse handlers, Aryans had a superior military and their cavalry warfare enabled them to spread their culture from the Punjab across northern India, preparing the way for emergence of large empires.
	web.cocc.edu /cagatucci/classes/hum210/tml/IndiaTML/indiatml1.htm (4108 words)

	INDO-ARYAN LANGUAGES - LoveToKnow Article on INDO-ARYAN LANGUAGES
		Indo-Aryan is the name generally adopted for those Aryans who entered India and settled there in prehistoric times, and for their descendants.
		A. Vocabulary.The ground of all the vocabularies of the modern Indo-Aryan vernaculars is, of course, the vocabulary of Aryan India in the Vedic period.
		It distinguishes them from the other Aryans who settled in Persia and elsewhere, just as the name Aryo-Indian signifies those inhabitants of India who are Aryans, as distinguished from other Indian races, Dravidians, Mundas and so on.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /I/IN/INDO_ARYAN_LANGUAGES.htm (5095 words)

	1Up India > India > Rajasthan > Rajasthan - as it was in the past
		Later, the Scythians settled in Rajasthan, married the Aryans, and gave birth to offspring that were more powerfully built than the Aryans, more nobler in appearance than the Aryans and were mentally powerful too.
		The division of the Rajputs into clans, the immigration of the Jains, resulting boom of trade and commerce, and the unusually long period of peace; all resulted into the invasion by the Turks, the Afghans and the Mongols, all ancient enemies of the Scythians.
		However, after its fall, the state went to the ravaging onslaughts of the Huns and the Scythians.
	www.1upindia.com /states/rajasthan/history.html (833 words)

	Indo-Aryan Problem: On Language and Archaeology (J.M.Houben)
		When the incoming Indo-Aryans have attained sufficient political power and population numbers, the existing people abandoned and/or were made to abandon their native language (some form of Dravidian?) and started to use Indo-Aryan tongues.
		A recent article that mentions this is G. Vajracharya's "The Adaptation of Monsoonal Culture by Rgvedic Aryans: A Further Study of the Frog Hymn," in the Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies 3,2 (1997).
		antiAryanInvasion books may be found: In search of the Cradle of Civilization, by Feuerstein, Kak and Frawley; Myth of Aryan Invasion by Frawley; Politics of History: Aryan Invasion and Subversion of Scholarship, Navaratna Rajaram; Return of the Aryans by Bhagwan S.Gidwani.
	www.hindunet.org /saraswati/resources/Indoaryanproblem.htm (3609 words)

	Indo-Aryan Problem: On Language and Archaeology (J.M.Houben)
		When the incoming Indo-Aryans have attained sufficient political power and population numbers, the existing people abandoned and/or were made to abandon their native language (some form of Dravidian?) and started to use Indo-Aryan tongues.
		A recent article that mentions this is G. Vajracharya's "The Adaptation of Monsoonal Culture by Rgvedic Aryans: A Further Study of the Frog Hymn," in the Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies 3,2 (1997).
		antiAryanInvasion books may be found: In search of the Cradle of Civilization, by Feuerstein, Kak and Frawley; Myth of Aryan Invasion by Frawley; Politics of History: Aryan Invasion and Subversion of Scholarship, Navaratna Rajaram; Return of the Aryans by Bhagwan S.Gidwani.
	www.hindunet.org /saraswati/resources/Indoaryanproblem.htm (3609 words)

	UNE University Library Electronic Resources FAQ Aryan Invasion
		Homeland of Indo-European Languages and Culture: Some Thoughts Argues that there was no Indo-European invasion and that the Aryans were indigenous to India.
		Aryans in the Archaeological Record: The Evidence outside the Subcontinent -- 11.
		Aryans in the Archaeological Record: The Evidence inside the Subcontinent -- 12.
	www.une.edu.au /library/faqs/hist142_aryan_invasion.htm (749 words)

	IPSASvolumes.htm
		Deshpande, Vedic Aryans, non-Vedic Aryans and non- Aryans: judging the linguistic evidence of the Veda.
		Salomon, On drawing socio-linguistic distinctions in Old Indo-Aryan: the question of Kshatriya Sanskrit and related problems
		Its underlying theme is the need to reconcile the approaches of these two disciplines towards ethicity, migrations and social evolution since much of the current confusion regarding the "Aryan problem" stems from mutual misunderstandings of the subject matter, aims, approaches and limitations of archaeology and linguistics.
	www.people.fas.harvard.edu /~witzel/volumes.htm (653 words)

	INDIA JOURNEY - ONLINE INDIA - LANGUAGES OF INDIA
		With the Aryans came their language Sanskrit, a member of the large Indo-European family of languages.
		The result was Prakrit or Middle Indo-Aryan dialect which soon engulfed the whole country in the north, east and centre.
		Perhaps it was because the Aryans migrated from their lands, taking their language with them.
	www.indiajourney.com /indiaonline/indiaonline-language.htm (11177 words)

	Learn more about Aryan invasion theory in the online encyclopedia.
		While Dravidian languages are primarily confined to the south of India, there is a striking exception: the Brahui, which is spoken in the Indus Valley area, indicating that Dravidian languages were formerly much more widespread and were supplanted by the incoming Indo-European languages such as Sanskrit.
		At this time most historians accept the theory, although the idea of a large-scale invasion that was prevalent around 1900 has given way to some extent to the idea of a much more modest invasion, in which the Aryans either merged in with the existing population or formed its upper layer.
		The Aryans brought with them their own Vedic religion, which was codified in the Vedas around the 1000 BC.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /a/ar/aryan_invasion_theory.html (1292 words)

	White and Aryan - Stormfront White Nationalist Community
		To the best of my knowledge the Aryans are the ancestors of peoples living in Northern India, Pakistan and Iran and have nothing to do with any European ethnicity except for the fact that most Europeans speak Indo-European languages just as Aryans and their descended nations.
		Modern Europeans are generally somewhat physically descended from the Aryans and owe most of their culture to them.
		Everywhere they went they brought their language (proto Indo-European), religion (the sacrificial fire cults of Agni, Varuna, Mitra, Indra, etc), trifunctional caste system, and honor culture.
	www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=193576 (1456 words)

	Ways of Indo-Aryan Migrations: an article by Cyril Babaev
		Aryans in the Mitanni Empire did not make a majority and were not the title nation; still, they were influential enough to introduce their religious system which was used in Mitanni together with Hurritic.
		The language of Aryans in Mitanni was a dialectal form of Vedic and sometimes seems even more progressive, though keeps some archaic traits.
		After that for half a century Sanskrit and other, later discovered forms of the Old Indic language were thought by scholars to have been the oldest forms of "Indo-Germanic", the direct descendants of the Proto-language.
	indoeuro.bizland.com /archive/article17.html (1456 words)

	Indo-Aryan Problem: On Language and Archaeology (J.M.Houben)
		When the incoming Indo-Aryans have attained sufficient political power and population numbers, the existing people abandoned and/or were made to abandon their native language (some form of Dravidian?) and started to use Indo-Aryan tongues.
		A recent article that mentions this is G. Vajracharya's "The Adaptation of Monsoonal Culture by Rgvedic Aryans: A Further Study of the Frog Hymn," in the Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies 3,2 (1997).
		antiAryanInvasion books may be found: In search of the Cradle of Civilization, by Feuerstein, Kak and Frawley; Myth of Aryan Invasion by Frawley; Politics of History: Aryan Invasion and Subversion of Scholarship, Navaratna Rajaram; Return of the Aryans by Bhagwan S.Gidwani.
	www.hindunet.org /saraswati/resources/Indoaryanproblem.htm (1456 words)

	Aryan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		See also Arya, Indo-Aryans, Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan migration, Aryan invasion theory.
		In the 19th century the term "Aryan" was used as shorthand for "Indo-European," even though many of the writers who adopted this usage accepted that it was not strictly accurate, given that the term "Aryan" was unattested in non-Indo-Iranian languages.
		There is evidence of speakers of Indo-Aryan in Mesopotamia around 1500 BC in the form of loanwords in the Mitanni dialect of Hurrian, the speakers of which, it is speculated, may have once had an Indo-Aryan ruling class.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aryan (1561 words)

	Race, Soul, and Indo-Aryan Religion
		According to this opposition of blood and blood, the Aryans evolved a world-view which, for depth and range, cannot be surpassed by any philosophy even today, although admittedly this was only after a long battle against the constantly intruding ideas of the racially inferior aborigines.
		The fair Aryans thus linked themselves to an acceptable version of the human type, and created a gulf between themselves as conquerors and the black-brown natives of pre-Aryan India.
		The period, for example, which lies between the heroic songs of the Vedas and that of the Upanishads is one both of expansion and of a simultaneous struggle against sorcery and degenerate ecstasies.
	library.flawlesslogic.com /soul.htm (1119 words)

	Indo-Aryan Languages
		Bibhasa Stage: With the passage of time and the dispersal of the Aryans over large parts of the continent that lacked means of mutual communication, local dialects of Sanskrit developed.
		These languages of this category are considered the `purest' descendants of Sanskrit, being spoken in Aryavarta, the `pure land of the Aryans', also known as Aryadesha or Madhyadesha.
		Sanskritic Stage: During this period the Aryan invaders spoke Sanskrit.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Ithaca/1335/Lang/prakrit.html (3044 words)

	The Myth of Aryan Invasion of India
		Lands of the Aryans are mentioned in them from Gandhara (Afganistan) in the west to Videha (Nepal) in the east, and south to Vidarbha (Maharashtra).
		In addition, the Aryans in the Middle East, most notably the Hittites, have now been found to have been in that region atleast as early as 2200 BC, wherein they are already mentioned.
		Current archeological data do not support the existence of an Indo Aryan or European invasion into South Asia at any time in the preor protohistoric periods.
	www.hindunet.org /hindu_history/ancient/aryan/aryan_frawley.html (4480 words)

	Women in Indo-Aryan Societies
		Krishna was one of the earliest Aryan figures, and this story could hence have not been an invention, since the Aryans were very scared of altering anything in their tradition.
		Hence the Aryans stand condemned for introducing sati.
		Sati was performed by all the Aryan races, for it is recorded that the Germanic tribes used to immolate the widows of chieftain to accompany the husband to Valhalla [ Harper 273 ] [ Davidson 150 ].
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Ithaca/1335/Soc/w_ary.html (5544 words)

	Indo-Aryan migration - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Indo-Aryan migration refers to the theory of migration and expansion of the Indo-Aryans during 1500 BCE or earlier.
		Indo-Aryan migration into the northern Punjab is thus approximately contemporaneous to the final phase of the decline of the Indus-Valley civilization.
		If Vedic Aryans were a biological entity represented by the skeletons from Timargarha, then their biological features of cranial and dental anatomy were not distinct to a marked degree from what we encountered in the ancient Harappans.” (1995: 54).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Indo-Aryan_migration (7157 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Aryan
		Gordon Childe (notably of Marxist persuasion) who in his 1926 The Aryans: a study of Indo-European origins concluded that "the Nordics' superiority in physique fitted them to be the vehicles of a superior language" (a view which he later regretted having expressed).
		Some Nazis were also influenced by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky's The Secret Doctrine (1888) where she postulates "Aryans" as the fifth of her "Root Races", dating them to about a million years ago, tracing them to Atlantis, an idea also repeated by Rosenberg, and held as doctrine by the Thule Society.
		There is evidence of speakers of Indo-Aryan in Mesopotamia around 1500 BC in the form of loanwords in the Mitanni dialect of Hurrian, the speakers of which, it is speculated, may have once had an Indo-Aryan ruling class.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Aryan (1845 words)

	Who were Illyrians
		From geographical references in the earliest Indo-Aryan literary document, the Rigveda, it is clear that the earliest settlement of Indo-Aryans was in the northwest of the Indian subcontinent.
		From there, some Iranians migrated to the south and west, the Indo-Aryans to the south and east.
		Their expansions and migrations from the 2nd century BC onward are largely recorded in history.
	www.geocities.com /iliria1 (15583 words)

	d-iaryan.txt
		This is the casualty of the hindu nationalist debate--not the theory of the aryans.
		The real agenda re: the Indian origins of the Aryans is, indeed and in fact, the buttressing of modern Hindu nationalistic notions regarding who is (and is not) a "real" Indian; and this agenda is either supported or contested by those who would believe themselves innocent of politics and "merely" doing "objective" scholarship.
		Aryan thesis on the other hand relies on the archaeological record, which appears not to be very solid, at least when it comes to horses and cows, etc. As for the conjectural nature of all this: the migration model has been generated by principles that really work.
	www.montclair.edu /risa/d-iaryan.txt (20355 words)

	"Knowing" Words in Indo-European Languages
		In World War II, he was more than a little sympathetic for the "Aryans" of Nazi Germany, and the result was that he got overthrown and Irân was occupied by British and Russian forces.
		The word ârya, which later simply meant "noble" in Sanskrit, was of course used in European theories of the "master race," the "Aryans." This had one curious consequence.
		As discussed elsewhere, the Ârya plunged India into its Dark Ages, until around 800 BC, when an alphabet was borrowed from the Middle East.
	www.friesian.com /cognates.htm (2865 words)

	Refuting Arthur Kemp's March of the Titans
		The word Iran itself means "the Land of Aryans" and Indians and Iranians consider their ethnicity and stock as being solely Aryan.
		19th century ethnologists speculated that all "white" European peoples descended from an ancient people called the Aryans.
		The Cro-Magnoid European of Grimaldi and the Bushman-Hottentot look like the modern Black man. Aurignacian culture was brought into Western Europe from Africa were termed Neanthriopic.
	www.stewartsynopsis.com /refuting_the_march_of_the_titans.htm (886 words)

	Aryan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		See also Arya, Indo-Aryans, Indo-Aryan languages, Aryan Invasion Theory.
		The Aryan (Proto-Indo-Iranian) language evolved into the family of Indo-Iranian languages, of which the oldest known members are Avestan, Vedic, and another Indo-Aryan language known only from loanwords found in the Mitanni language, the latter which was itself a dialect of Hurrian.
		By the first half of the 2nd millennium BC Aryans had arrived on the Iranian plateau and the Indian subcontinent(even though modern research in India seems to contradict the Aryan Invasion Theory).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aryan (886 words)

	Incoherent Theories
		I've already discussed about three migrations that left their mark on Indian population and how closely related were Dravidians and Indo-Aryans.
		Aryans as the conquering people possibly placed their three classes on the indigenous Indian society.
		All these facts again prove that, a big chunk of Indo-European speaking people, from brahmins to non-brahmins and all Dravidian speaking people were assimilated ethnically and culturally after their migration to the subcontinent.
	bantwal.blogspot.com (11294 words)

	India Discussion Forum - Indian History, Culture, Politics, News, Strategic Security, Hinduism. -> Western Indologists
		For example, the culture of the Indus valley, where the Aryans are said to have invaded, flourished between 3500 and 2500 B.C. The two main cities were Harappa and Mohenjo-daro.
		Many modern historians held the idea that it was the Aryans who invaded India in the second millennium B.C. that were the founders of the Indian culture and Vedic traditions.
		And if not, if this is where the Aryan invaders were supposed to have appeared when they brought their Vedic culture with them, maybe there really wasn't any Aryan invasion, not at least the way some scholars seem to think.
	www.india-forum.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=987 (10983 words)

	Asko Parpola 16: Text Only Version
		Numerically the early Aryans can have been only a fraction of the Indus population, which is estimated to have been about five million.
		his etymology also appears preferable to the current explanation, which derives vata 'Indian fig' from Middle Indo-Aryan (Prakrit vata Sanskrit vata 'covered, surrounded'), because the Aryan nomads did not bring this tree to the subcontinent, but encountered it first there.
		he star-calendar used by the Vedic ritualists was adopted by the Aryans in India, for there are no references to it in the Avesta or in the oldest books of the Rgveda.
	www.harappa.com /script/parpola16.html (5452 words)

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