USA people: Do you believe in the Aryan-Invasion theory of India?

Question

This theory says that the first people in India were the Dravidians (South Indians). These people were said to have been pushed downward by invaders from other lands, who later became the North Indians.

Answer 1

Invasion or migration, the language came from somewhere. The Aryans are a hypothetical people who spread their language south into the Indian subcontinent and west into Europe. Anthologists have a difficulty with the Aryans because other than the language traces there's little evidence of their existence.

Maybe the ancestor tongue of Sanskrit was born south of the Indus and then spread to Europe from there, but there even less evidence for that than the Aryans.

PS
The Vedas date to the late Bronze Age (about 1200BC) and are written in Sanskrit, a language that is a descendant of Aryan, not Aryan itself. The Aryans lived a thousand years before the Vedas, if they lived at all.

Answer 2

Yes. There is significant evidence.

The Aryans were a light-skinned people who invaded from the north through the Kyber Pass. When Mohenjo-Daro was excavated, the remains of writing there were untranslated, whereas The Vedas, reliogious writings of the Aryans, were found from a later time period and indentified as an independent source of culture. Also, the remnants of Dravidians survive today in south India, while northly you have the Aryans.

Answer 3

I would have to say yes, I do. There has been much research with regard to your question. And I think the general consensus is that the theory is fairly accurate.

I checked your profile to see if you were a historian, or scholar: no info.

So I'm wondering why you asked such a particular question?

I'm a long time yogi, and everyone knows where yoga comes from; and have consequently studied the ancient Indus valley civilizations: as I suspect you have also.

But just in case you haven't, I would recommend that you research "Mohenjo daro" and "Harappa": two major archaeological sites of that civilization.

And thanks for your question,

Alberich