The Aryan theory, proposed by Max Mueller and linguist William Jones in the nineteenth century, holds that Aryans were a class of fair-skinned, agrarian noblemen who migrated from Central Asia to India after the Indus Valley period. The Aryans are thought to have composed the Vedas, and it was long assumed that the Aryans played a significant role in civilizing the Indian subcontinent. This theory is also called the Aryan invasion theory. Whereas modern archaeologists say Aryans were indigenous people who resided mainly along the Saraswati River. Once it dried up, they migrated to regions within and outside India and also settled in the Indus Valley.<\/p>\r\n
The term 'Aryan' or 'Arya' appears to be the most ancient one used for Indo-Europeans. The Aryans were central Asian\u00a0Steppe pastoralists<\/strong>\u00a0who arrived in India between roughly\u00a02000 BCE and 1500 BCE<\/strong>\u00a0and brought Indo-European languages to the subcontinent.<\/p>\r\n The Indo-Aryans were the speakers of a sub-group of the\u00a0Indo-Iranian branch\u00a0<\/strong>of the\u00a0Indo-European family of languages.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n Aryan migration theory (AMT)\u00a0<\/strong>was first proposed by\u00a0European scholars<\/strong>\u00a0in the nineteenth century, most notably\u00a0F Max Muller.<\/strong>\u00a0It was a convenient way to explain obvious similarities between\u00a0Sanskrit and Greek or Latin<\/strong>\u00a0since another branch of the Aryans was assumed to have migrated towards Europe.<\/p>\r\n That branch of Indo-Europeans who became involved in affairs in India became known as Indo-Aryans, or Vedics thanks to their surviving writings, the\u00a0Vedas<\/strong><\/em>. In fact, the term Indo-Aryan is considered to be\u00a0language-specific<\/strong>\u00a0rather than race-specific.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\t
What is the Aryan Invasion Theory?<\/h2>\r\n
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Aryans- As a Language Group<\/h2>\r\n
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