Even when evidence to
the contrary is presented, it is unlikely that it will be given up easily. The evidence
which has come up that has disproved it has led to the reformulation of the theory
along different lines, altering the aspects of it that have become questionable
but not giving up its core ideas. Yet with the weight of much new
evidence today, the Aryan invasion theory no longer has any basis to
stand on, however it is formulated.
There is no real evidence for any Aryan invasion - whether
archeological, literary or linguistic - and no scholar working in the field,
even those who still accept some outside origin for the Vedic people
(the so-called Aryans), accepts the theory in its classical form of the
violent invasion and destruction of the Harappan cities by the incoming
Aryans.
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