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The Indo-Aryan migration into the northern Punjab started shortly after the decline of the Indus Valley civilisation (IVC). According to the "Aryan Invasion Theory" this decline was caused by "invasions" of barbaric and violent Aryans who conquered the IVC.
The Aryan Invasion Theory was a colonial construct that portrayed the Aryans as a superior race that brought civilization to India. The article examines the arguments for and against the theory, and its ideological and historical significance.
- Media Confusion
- Academic Split
- Two New Papers
- How This Explains Modern India
- The Politics of It
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The Economic Times reported thatthe research raises doubts over the “long-held theory of Aryan invasion or migration into South Asia”. Amar Ujala, one of India’s largest Hindi newspapers, was more emphatic: “The Aryan invasion theoryproved completely false; India is the guru of South Asia.” The theory of the Aryan invasion(or migration) was first p...
These results were not only misinterpreted in the media, they also led to a split in how the authors of the landmark studies and other genetic scientists interpreted them. Vasant Shinde, co-author on both studies, put out a press release on September 6 where he argued that the new data “completely sets aside the Aryan Migration/Invasion Theory” and...
The study of the genetics of ancient humans, using DNA to do the work of archeologists and historians in explaining our past, was pioneered at Harvard University by geneticist David Reich. However, till now, India has been one of the dark spots in this field of study. This is because, as Nick Patterson, a co-author on the two new papers and a close...
Perhaps the biggest learning from this genetic research is that it explains the various languages South Asians speak. “It is clear that the movement of people mirrors the information we have from linguistics on how different features of language families are shared between them,” explained Vagheesh Narasimhan of the Department of Genetics at Harvar...
This enquiry into the origin of modern Indians has set off hectic political debate in India. David Reich recounted how politics played a part in his work. Given the significant Steppe ancestry in the Ancestral North Indian component, Reich had originally termed this group “West Eurasians” – a move that received violent pushback from Reich’s Indian ...
Two new papers in Cell and Science show how people with Steppe ancestry brought Indo-Aryan languages to India. However, some Indian scientists and media distort the results to suit a nativist narrative of Hindu nationalism.
Sep 15, 2019 · Simply put, AIT states that India was invaded by Aryans, a fair blue-eyed nomadic tribe from Europe in 1,500 BC who drove out the dark, snub-nosed Dravidians to South India. Subsequently, these...
The Aryan Invasion: Myth or fact ? Michel Danino points out significance historical evidence that demystifies the Indian subcontinent’s greatest fable.
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Apr 3, 2018 · The Nazis, for example, helped propagate the Aryan Invasion Theory in which blue-eyed fair people swept into the Indian subcontinent on horses, conquering everyone they saw along the way.
Jun 16, 2017 · How genetics is settling the Aryan migration debate. New DNA evidence is solving the most fought-over question in Indian history. And you will be surprised at how sure-footed the answer is,...
