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Detailed explanation-1: -The Aryans were a semi-nomadic pastoral people. By 1500 BCE the Aryans migrated into the Indian subcontinent. Coming from central Asia, this large group of nomadic cattle herders crossed the Hindu Kush Mountains and came in contact with the Indus Valley Civilization.

Detailed explanation-2: -Indo-Aryan peoples are a diverse collection of Indo-European peoples speaking Indo-Aryan languages in the Indian subcontinent. Historically, Aryans were the Indo-Iranian speaking pastoralists who migrated from Central Asia into South Asia and introduced the Proto-Indo-Aryan language.

Detailed explanation-3: -Some scholars claim Central Asia was the original home of the Aryans. Some assume their original home was in southern Russia (near the Caspian Sea) or southeastern Europe (in Austria and Hungary). The German scholar, Max-Muller, thought that somewhere near the Caspian Sea was the original home of the Aryans.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Aryan invasion theory holds forth that a set of migrants came from Central Asia armed with superior knowledge and arms and invaded the existing settlements to establish a more sophisticated civilisation in India and pushed the original inhabitants down south.