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Ep 2: Aryan invasion theory - A myth


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Aryan invasion theory , A propaganda that is not true
The theory of the Aryan invasion (or migration) was first put forward by Western scholars during the colonial age.
Is proposed People of Steppe-pastoralist ancestry likely “brought horses and the Indo-European languages now spoken on the subcontinent,”
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Some path-breaking insights came to light after scientists were able to sequence genome from the skeleton of a woman and study the archaeological evidence found in Rakhigarhi,
“The ancient-DNA results completely reject the theory of steppe pastoral or ancient Iranian farmers as source of ancestry to the Harappan population. This research also demolishes the hypothesis about mass human migration during the Harappan time from outside South Asia,”
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UNRAVEL STUDIOBy Rutuja Sangitrao