Was there an Aryan Invasion in Ancient India?
To those wondering, the actual meaning of the term Aryan is NOT the definition used by Nazi Germany. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan_race For those of you who don’t know, the demography of India is largely composed of two ethnic groups: Indo-Aryan peoples and Dravidian peoples. The simplest way to differentiate the two groups is by saying that Indo-Aryan people are the “Indians” that you think of when you picture Sikhs, Hindustanis, and people from Bangladesh and Pakistan, who resemble Persians but with slightly darker skin and more body hair, and Dravidians are not seen as often in the West as Aryans but are distinctly different from them: they have darker skin, straight hair, are shorter and stockier and tend to have a different accent than that of Northern Indians. It is the North Indians who have what the Western world considers the “Indian accent”, whereas South Indians have a different accent. There is lots of archaeological evidence that the Dravidian peoples are indigeno
