The few scholars today who
continue to hold an outside origin for the Aryans have also generally
given up the invasion/destruction idea, though they may still be proposing an outside
origin for the Aryans. They are proposing an Aryan migration, diffusion, or mixing
with indigenous people which is quite different from the violent and
intrusive form of the original Aryan invasion idea (note Romila Thapar in this regard
*4).
Some of these scholars accept an Aryan element in the Harappan
culture itself, owing to Vedic traits like fire altars which have been
found in Harappan sites, though they still may not regard the Harappan culture as a whole as
Aryan.
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