Literature, which is our chief source on the early Aryans.Īlthough the term "Aryan" has been used by European writers Occupied were called Aryavarta and are dealt with in the oldest Sanskrit India is marked by the distribution of Painted Gray Ware. Probability not Aryan in its language, was already destroyed or moribundīy the time of their arrival. The earlier Indus Valley civilization, in all They introduced to the Indo-Gangetic Plain the horse-drawnĬhariot and the Brahmanic religion still known to us from the four sacredīooks called Vedas. In Sanskrit, means "noble," no doubt in reference to theirĭominant position in the society they invaded Pakistan, northern India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, though they do not Theirĭescendants today form the great bulk of the population in Nepal, , although there is considerable disagreement about this date. The Indian subcontinent from the northwest in about 1500 These early speakers of Vedic Sanskrit, an Indo-European language, invaded
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