| The Myth Of Aryan Invasion Of India |
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| Books By David Frawley |
| MIGRATION RATHER THAN INVASION | |
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| If invasion is discarded then the
mechanisms of migrations and occasional contacts come into
sharper focus. The migrations appear to have been of pastoral cattle-herders who are prominent in
the Avesta and the Rig Veda.(*7) From the ferocious Aryan hordes we have come down to mild pastoral migrants coming not with iron and chariots but only herds of cattle. This Aryan migration theory I call the "fourth birth of the Aryan invasion theory." How small groups of pastoral
migrants can accomplish changing the language of a subcontinent -
which already had given birth to its own great civilization
and imposing their own culture and social system
upon it, is highly improbable and almost absurd. An existent complex
cultural order such as ancient India indicates can easily assimilate a
few cattle herders moving in, but such groups cannot be given the
credit to assimilate the whole culture of a subcontinent. 7. Romila Thapar, "Archaeology and Language at the Roots of Ancient India," Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bombay Vol. 64-66 1989-1991, pp. 259-260.
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