or official; circa 3000 B.C.,
found at Mohenjo-Daro
Stephen Oppenheimer concluded by genetic studies that people moved into India from Africa initially and rest of the world population were descendents of this group. University of Cambridge researchers Michael Petraglia and Hannah James came to the similar conclusion by analyzing fossils, artifacts, and genetic data. So if there was a migration, it was from India to Europe and not the other way. Does this prove that there was no Aryan Invasion/Migration?
While the above migrations happened about 85,000 years back, the theory of Aryan Invasion/Migration talks about what happened around 4000 years back. This is what Dr. Jonathan Mark Kenoyer, who has been excavating in the Indus city of Harappa has to say
The transition from one culture to the next was gradual as seen at Harappa, and there is no evidence for invasions by outside communities such as the so-called Indo-Aryans.Although some scattered skeletons were discovered in the later levels, they do not represent warfare or raiding, and there is no evidence that the site came to a violent end. [Decline and Transformation]
Now the BBC has updated their page on the history of Hinduism to reflect this. So why are some people still holding onto the invasion theory? A good answer comes from Suhag A Shukla, who was the legal counsel for the Hindu American Foundation in the recent California textbook controversy.
There is no evidence of any invasion or any war. Honestly, the people who have held onto the Aryan invasion theory, probably based their entire careers on that particular theory and have expounded that through their research, they have a vested interest in not seeing it disappear.['I am not for rewriting Hinduism']
I guess this means that we are all related to each other, right?
Btw, I have a copy of the High Priest sitting on my desk, which I bought when I visited Moenjo-Daro last year.
I am glad I discovered your interesting blog today and I will definitely be back often.
People will always cling to obsolete ideas, & theories that are just wrong. It’s a shame, & a disservice to all seekers of our true human legacy; Those now and those to come. Think about the extent that these proponents of the Aryan invasion espouse it. Eventually, the truth banishes all lies, along with those who disseminate it.
So if there was a migration, it was from India to Europe and not the other way.
While I am aware of Oppenheimer’s work, the genetic evidence from both the CFSL and others do not seem to propose a link between Europe and India, the halotypes appear to be quite different. So if there was no large-scale migration into India, there is unlikely to have been any large-scale migration out of India in huge numbers too. Perhaps I missed your conclusion in my reading and I was wondering if you could point me to a reference.
IndianXian, I used that sentence rather loosely. Since people moved from Africa into India and then to rest of the world, it was a casual statement. I have not seen any evidence of this migration in genetic terms.
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