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Myth Of Aryan Invasion Of India |
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By David Frawley |
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| MIGRATION
RATHER THAN INVASION |
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Migration Rather than Invasion
Coming to the present time, given the facts that there was no
destruction of Harappa and no evidence of any large scale
migrations of people, the latest form of "the Aryans coming from
the outside" (as for example, represented by Romila Thapar, who
is a well-known Marxist historian generally opposed to Vedic culture)
is of a gradual migration of small groups pastoral peoples during the
same period of the second millennium BC.
It is now generally agreed that the
decline of Harappan urbanism was due to environmental changes of
various kinds, to political pressures and possible break in trading
activities, and not to any invasion. Nor does the archaeological
evidence register the likelihood of a massive migration from Iran into
north-western India on such a scale as to overwhelm the existing
cultures.
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