Of courseIf you ask an Indian/Pakistani historian, they'll be more likely to say the Aryans WHERE the Indus/Harrapan people, and it was them invading and settling out of India that spread Indo-European language, technology and religion to Iran and Europe. That's not the accepted intepretation by Western academia, but it's (not surprisingly) very popular in South Asia, where the entire concept of the Aryan Invasion is viewed as essentially being European propoganda.
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Fri 22 Jul 2005, 13:01,
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You are so righthowever, it does appear that Sanskrit did arrive with people from the West. Of course they may have come from Central Asia or from the Middle East but I'm more inclined to believe the Western academics version, simply because of the cultural explosion that happened in that part of the world after the arrival of Sanskrit.
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Fri 22 Jul 2005, 13:22,
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No, I agree with you tooAlthough, er, technically the accepted view among Western historians and linguists is that the Proto-Indo-Europeans did come from Central Asia, around about the north-east of the Black Sea, and spread out from there to Europe in the west and Iran and India in the south-east (The Wikipedia article on Indo-European languages has some pretty good maps that illustrate the theory well).
I was merely pointing out that the theory popular in South Asia is that they came entirely from India, and that there was no invasion at all - just saying that there's always another viewpoint, especially on something as emotive as history ;)
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Fri 22 Jul 2005, 13:40,
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I was merely pointing out that the theory popular in South Asia is that they came entirely from India, and that there was no invasion at all - just saying that there's always another viewpoint, especially on something as emotive as history ;)
That's a very interesting link.nice one..
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Fri 22 Jul 2005, 21:13,
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