![]() ![]() This paper suggests the need for delinking race with spoken and written forms of language and culture while studying the identity of the Harappans, analyzes the role of internal and external migrations in shaping Indian culture and questions some other longheld assumptions about Post-Harappan India. Cultural contacts with West Asia and then with South India would complete the process of Spread of IE language and culture in India. It suggests that the IE speakers first migrated into and settled in the northernmost tip of the subcontinent, trickled into the plains due to climatic changes in the northernmost tip of India, synthesized with the Harappans, fused with them and got the upper hand when the transfers of population from North-West India into the Gangetic plains took place around 1900 BC, and then desynthesized with whatever was left of the Harappan civilization till it vanished around 1400 BC. when movements of IE speakers were small. ![]() it examines why the genetic input from Central Asia may have been extremely small and how the Spread of IE language and culture in India might have occurred in trickle in scenarios i.e. ![]() Part One of this paper provides a case for rejecting the Autochthonous Aryan theory and proposes an alternative to the Aryan Migration Theory, i.e. ![]()
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