SSC MTS EXAM

Detailed explanation-1: -The Indo-Aryan migrations were the migrations into the Indian subcontinent of Indo-Aryan peoples, an ethnolinguistic group that spoke Indo-Aryan languages, the predominant languages of today’s North India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and the Maldives.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Arya were central Asian Steppe pastoralists who arrived in India between roughly 2000 BCE and 1500 BCE, and brought Indo-European languages to the subcontinent.

Detailed explanation-3: -The term “Aryan” was used as an ethnocultural self-designative identity of the Indo-Iranians and the authors of the oldest known religious texts of Rig Veda and Avesta within the Indo-Iranian branch of Indo-European language family-Sanskrit and Iranian, who lived in ancient India and Iran.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Aryans were agricultural people who were semi-nomadic. The Aryans migrated to the Indian subcontinent in 1500 BCE. This large community of nomadic cattle herders, coming from central Asia, crossed the Hindu Kush Mountains and came into contact with the Indus Valley Civilization. Therefore, option A is correct.