Indigenous Aryans
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Indigenous Aryans, also known as the Out of India theory (OIT), is the idea that the Aryans are indigenous to the Indian subcontinent. Support for the idea mostly exists among a subset of Indian scholars, and plays a significant role in Hindutva politics. It has no relevance, let alone support, in mainstream scholarship.
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[edit]- Most of the debate is founded upon the failure to understand linguistics and on political motivations having nothing to do with linguistics or history.
- Christopher I. Beckwith, Empires of the Silk Road (Princeton UP, 2009), p. 34, note 25
- An ostrich-like attitude is perpetuating the Aryan invasion myth.
- B.B. Lal, Braj Basi Lal (2010): “An Ostrich-like Attitude Is Perpetuating the ‘Aryan Invasion’ Myth”, in B. R. Singh (ed.) (2010), p. 23-36. Bal Ram Singh (2010): Origin of Indian Civilization, Dartmouth MA, Center for Indic Studies - Delhi, D.K. Printworld.
- No Sanskrit book or history records that the Aryas came here from Iran. ... How then can the writings of foreigners be worth believing in the teeth of this testimony?
- (Dayananda, Sarasvati 1988 220); in Bryant, E. F. (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture: the Indo-Aryan migration debate. Oxford University Press. ch 13
