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So, what is the current consensus then (if there is one) on how the inhabitants of the more northerly parts of the subcontinent ended up speaking Indo-European languages?
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So, what is the current consensus then (if there is one) on how the inhabitants of the more northerly parts of the subcontinent ended up speaking Indo-European languages?
Wikipedia can be useful when it has good links. That article does.
Personally, I think it's slightly semantic. There is evidence of migration and intermingling. The problem is the whole AIT was dreamed up and overblown to serve particular socio-political ends at the time. ow, it's being most vehemently attacked by those pursuing other socio-political aims. Indeed, to me there is a certain irony in the fact that the core ideology of those now attacking theory (many of whom are extreme right-wing Hindu nationalists) is not dissimilar to that of those who first proposed it (also extreme right-wing nationalists). That's a whole nother kettle of fish, but.
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A gentleman from India became friends with my family as a result of a chance meeting in April of 1964 at the World's Fair in NYC.
He made several trips north to visit us. The first visit was in early Spring. The next visit was in late summer.
Between visits my pale Irish winter skin had gained a tan
and when I picked him up at the airport he said, sorrowfully : "Oh, you have lost your lovely color."
I had never thought of myself as having color!
It was an "Ahhhhhhhh Haaaaaaaaaa" moment.
Have never thought about my color the same way again.
It's all in the eye - and the mind ? - of the beolder !
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