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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->I am pleased to announce the publication of a paper whose Abstract
is given below. Older issues of the Journal may be accessed online
at http://www.jisha.org
My paper should also appear eventually at the same website of the
journal.
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JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES IN HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY
Volume 2 (No. 1) Summer 2005

<b>Title: What is the Aryan Migration Theory?</b>
Author: Vishal Agarwal

Abstract: The Aryan Invasion Theory in its classical form has now
been abandoned by most Indologists due to contradictory evidence
from archaeology and Vedic literature. In lieu, the Aryan Migration
Theory is often invoked, according to which Indo-Aryan speakers
migrated from Central Asia into northern parts of the Indian
subcontinent peacefully, and perhaps after the demise of the Mature
Harappan Culture. Proponents of this new theory marshall an array of
archaeological, genetic, linguistic and literary evidence to explain
the arrival of Indo-Aryan languages into northern India with
immigrating Aryans. The present article looks at this evidence
critically, and adduces latest data from genetics and archaeology to
argue that the Aryan Migration Theory remains a non-proven and a
very weak hypothesis to explain the arrival of Indo-Aryan languages
into India. Therefore, we must re-examine this data with an open
mind to test alternate hypothesis such as the arrival of these
languages before the Mature Harappan period.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->