INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The term Aryan denotes a linguistic group and not a race. Their language Vedic Sanskrit has definite relationship with major languages of Europe and Asia. Scholars call this group of languages as Indo-European and the people speaking these languages as Indo-Europeans or Indo-Aryans.

Detailed explanation-2: -noun. 1. : a member of the people speaking an unrecorded prehistoric language from which the Indo-European languages are descended. : this language. : indo-european languages.

Detailed explanation-3: -Etymology. Adjective. Sanskrit ārya noble, belonging to an ancient people of northern India speaking an Indo-European dialect. First Known Use.

Detailed explanation-4: -Aryan, name originally given to a people who were said to speak an archaic Indo-European language and who were thought to have settled in prehistoric times in ancient Iran and the northern Indian subcontinent. The Aryan race was a racial grouping used in the period of the late 19th century and mid-20th century.