by Ferdinand Bardamu
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Current Descendants of ancient Aryans in India |
The Aryan Conquest of the Subcontinent
They came from the Russian steppe in search of living space; from the far north they came, in search of new pastureland to graze their cattle. In their horse-drawn chariots with spoked wheels, they traveled through Bactria and crossed over the Hindu Kush to the Panjab in northwest India. They called themselves “Arya” or Aryans, Vedic Sanskrit for “noble ones.” They were a Caucasoid people who had migrated from the proto-Indo-Iranian culture of Sintashta-Petrovka, which belongs to the Andronovo archaeological horizon of central Eurasia. Since they had evolved in the cold climate of the Russian steppe, they were white-skinned. Many of the Aryan warriors were blonds and redheads; many had blue or green eyes. This has been confirmed by geneticists who, using DNA analysis, managed to reconstruct the physical anthropology of the Kurgan people. Their analysis was based on Indo-European burial remains from the Andronovo archaeological horizon or a succeeding one in the same geographical area. All of the specimens had been dated to the middle or late Bronze Age and the Iron Age (Keyser et al., 2009). It was determined that most of the dead had genes for both light-colored eyes and hair. These people would have been closely related to the Aryans of Sintashta-Petrovka, who had begun their migratory trek across the Hindu Kush to India in the latter half of the second millennium BC.