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  1. Mar 19, 2019 · History. Who Were the Aryans? There are different theories associated with the Aryans, their origins and possible migration/invasion in the Indian subcontinent.

  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › AryanAryan - Wikipedia

    Many American white supremacist neo-Nazi groups and prison gangs refer to themselves as 'Aryans', including the Aryan Brotherhood, the Aryan Nations, the Aryan Republican Army, the White Aryan Resistance, or the Aryan Circle.

  3. Jun 21, 2024 · Aryan, name originally given to a people who were said to speak an archaic Indo-European language and who were thought to have settled in prehistoric times in ancient Iran and the northern Indian subcontinent. The theory of an “Aryan race” appeared in the mid-19th century and remained prevalent until the mid-20th century.

    • The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
    • Early Migration & Origin of Term
    • Migration & The Indus Valley Civilization
    • Racial Reinterpretation
    • Conclusion

    It is thought that the migratory band of peoples later referred to as Indo-Iranians and Indo-Aryans came originally from the area of modern-day Kazakhstan near the Ural River and moved slowly toward the Iranian Plateau where they arrived sometime prior to the 3rd millennium BCE. Whatever they may have called themselves at this time is unknown, but ...

    At some point, the so-called Indo-Aryans of the original migratory group went south toward India where they are thought to have merged with the indigenous people of the Indus Valley Civilization (also known as the Harappan Civilization or Harappan Culture, c. 7000 - c. 600 BCE). This civilization was highly advanced as evidenced by Neolithicsites s...

    When the ruins of the city of Harappa were discovered by the explorer Charles Masson (pseudonym of the British soldier and scholar James Lewis, l. 1800-1853 CE) in 1829 CE, no one knew this civilization had ever existed and later, applying the racial theories which had developed, Western scholars concluded that there had been a massive Aryan Invasi...

    In the 1960s CE, however, Wheeler's claims – which rested largely on skeletons found during his excavations which he claimed presented evidence of violent death in battle– were refuted, thanks largely to the work of the American scholar and archaeologist George F. Dales (Keay, 23). Dales found no evidence at any of the ancient sites to support the ...

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  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Aryan_raceAryan race - Wikipedia

    The Aryan race is an obsolete historical race concept that emerged in the late-19th century to describe people who descend from the Proto-Indo-Europeans as a racial grouping. The terminology derives from the historical usage of Aryan, used by modern Indo-Iranians as an epithet of "noble".

  5. Dec 30, 2018 · Hindu right-wingers believe the source of Indian civilisation are people who called themselves Aryans - a nomadic tribe of horse-riding, cattle-rearing warriors and herders who composed...

  6. Nov 6, 2019 · Adolf Hitler twisted the theories of archaeologist Gustaf Kossinna (1858–1931) to put forward the Aryans as a "master race" of Indo-Europeans, who were supposed to be Nordic in appearance and directly ancestral to the Germans.