Are North Indians native to India?

Question

The "Aryan Invasion Theory" tells us that they are the descendants on invaders that pushed down the South Indians. But some think that this theory is wrong. And that the Southerners just tend to be darker than the Northerners.

Answer 1

If the Aryan Invasion Theory is true and I'm not for a second saying it is, than it must have happened thousands of years ago. My question to you is, how long does someone have to live in a land before they are considered natives of that land.

If you look at the history of human kind we have been migrating from the beginning. It all started in Africa remember and from there we migrated all over.

Answer 2

they're basically stated as Indians. The natives of North u . s . are stated as purple Indians. the human beings of West Indies are stated as WestIndians and the human beings of the Amazon Basin are stated as Amazon Indians. The Indians have been given their call from the river Indus it relatively is interior the western frontiers of the subcontinent. The westerners comming to India had to flow this river with a view to bypass to India. there became a time while Greeks governed the western international and that they stated as easily everyone east of Hindukush mountains as Hindus. subsequently, all Indians have been then stated as Hindus in spite of religion. yet at the instant it truly is erroneous call Indians as Hindus as a results of fact the classic Aryan faith is stated as Hinduism and the followers Hindus. human beings of all faith now style a factor of the secular united states of america of India.

Answer 3

Government of India Gave Indians - Single Citizenship - with which they can be treated as Indians - North, East, West & South all are treated as Citizens of India only.

Answer 4

If you look at Spain, France and Italy all of those people in the north are lighter skinned than those in the south of those countries. It has to do with the need of protection from the sun. The rays of the sun are not as strong in the north as they are in the south, so therefore they people of the south of India need more protection from the sun and are darker.

Answer 5

Aryans ( North Indians) R pure Indians, as also Dravidian Southies.

Answer 6

Yes, most North Indians are of primarily of ancient Indian stock, according to 21st century DNA research. These groups are from Central Asian origins.

Answer 7

Northern Indians are primarily defined to be of the Indo-Aryan ethnic group which constitute the bulk of Indian population

For more details, please check the following link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_India

Answer 8

No - Migration of humans was as long as history could find.
After settling in one area for a couple of generations , you too become a native of that place. President Bush or Condellisa Rice of US are good examples.

Answer 9

yes...but they smell like spices! South keep it real, West is tha best & East jus loves to party!

Answer 10

Aryan is an English language word derived from Sanskrit and Avestan term ārya- meaning "noble" or "spiritual".[1] It is widely held to have been used as an ethnic self-designation of the Proto-Indo-Iranians. Since, in the 19th century, the Indo-Iranians were the most ancient known speakers of Indo-European languages, the word Aryan was adopted to refer not only to the Indo-Iranian people, but also to Indo-European speakers as a whole.

In Europe, the concept of an Aryan race became influential in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as linguists and ethnologists argued that speakers of these Indo-European languages constitute a distinctive race, descended from an ancient people, who were referred to as the "primitive Aryans", but are now known as Proto-Indo-Europeans.

In today's linguistics, Aryan, is merely synonymous to Indo-Iranian, the eastern extant branch of the Indo-European family of languages.

roto-Indo-European (PIE) *ar-yo-, a yo-adjective to a root *ar "to assemble skillfully", present in Greek harma "chariot", Greek aristos, (as in "aristocracy"), Latin ars "art", etc. Proto-Indo-Iranian *ar-ta- was a related concept of "properly joined" expressing a religious concept of cosmic order.

The adjective *aryo- was suggested as ascending to Proto-Indo-European times as the self-designation of the speakers of the Proto-Indo-European language itself. It was suggested that other words such as Éire, the Irish name of Ireland, and Ehre (German for "honour") were related to it, but these are now widely regarded as untenable,[6] and while *ar-yo- is certainly a well-formed PIE adjective, there is no evidence that it was used as an ethnic self-designation outside the Indo-Iranian branch. In the 1850s Max Müller theorized that the word originated as a denotation of farming populations, since he thought it likely that it was related to the root *arh3, meaning "to plough". Other 19th century writers, such as Charles Morris, repeated this idea, linking the expansion of PIE speakers to the spread of agriculturalists. Most linguists now consider *arh3 to be unrelated.

In ancient and medieval India, the Sanskrit term aryaputra, literally, 'son of nobility' was a title conferred to kings and princes. In the epic Mahabharata, king Dhritarashtra’s wife, Gandhari addresses her husband as aryaputra more often than she uses his name, or any other title of respect.

The Old Persian form of *Aryāna- appears as Æryānam Väejāh "Aryan Root-land" in Avestan, in Middle Persian as Ērān, and in Modern Persian as Īrān. Similarly, Northern India was referred to by the tatpurusha Aryavarta "Arya-abode" in ancient times.

According to Paul Thieme (1938), the Vedic term arya- in its earliest attestations has a meaning of "stranger", but "stranger" in the sense of "potential guest" as opposed to "barbarian" (mleccha, dasa), taking this to indicate that arya was originally the ethnic self-designation of the Indo-Iranians. Arya directly contrasts with Dasa or Dasyu in the Rigveda (e.g. RV 1.51.8, ví jānīhy âryān yé ca dásyavaḥ "Discern thou well Aryas and Dasyus"). This situation is directly comparable to the term Hellene in Ancient Greece. The Middle Indic interjection arē!, rē! "you there!" is derived from the vocative arí! "stranger!".

The Sanskrit lexicon Amarakosha (c. AD 450) defines Arya as mahākula kulīnārya "being of a noble family", sabhya "having gentle or refined behavior and demeanor", sajjana "being well-born and respectable", and sādhava "being virtuous, honourable, or righteous". In Hinduism, the religiously initiated Brahmin, Kshatriya and Vaishyas were arya, a title of honor and respect given to certain people for noble behaviour. This word is used by Hindus, Buddhists, Jains and Zoroastrians to mean noble or spiritual.[7], for example, Four Noble Truths (Pali: Cattāri ariyasaccāni, Sanskrit: Catvāri āryasatyāni), and Noble Eightfold Path (Pāli: Ariyo aṭṭhaṅgiko maggo; Sanskrit: Ārya 'ṣṭāṅga mārgaḥ).