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Originally Posted by gamercube
It is called the Aryan Migration Theory, and according to it, the Aryans were a linguistically different people that came from beyond the Indus river (where exactly they came from is disputed, but most likely Iran), and settled in Northern India.
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There was no single migration, it happened continuously in waves. A lot of groups, tribes migrated and its not right to say its just Iran. It's as far as from Mesopotamia.
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There are very good reasons to believe that the Aryans were not of Indian origin.
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No one is Indian, all are migrants and migrated in to the sub-continent in different periods of time. Read about Spencer Wells Genome project.
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Their language (Sanskrit) shares a lot of similarities with old Persian and the Vedas share many of the same terms that the Zend Avesta uses. It is part of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-Aryan languages.
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Linguistics alone cannot differentiate Aryans as Persians.
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