HISTORY
ANCIENT INDIA
Question
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Aryans were found to have been occupying the whole of the present region of Punjab and Sindh regions from about 1500 B.C. The first group of Aryans fought against the Dravidians and other inhabitants whom they defeated and are supposed to have been pushed down towards south of India.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Indo-Aryans migrated and settled in the northeastern part of the Indian subcontinent, believed to be close to the Ganges plain and the Indus Valley. They migrated during the late Harappan Civilization and are believed to have contributed to its end. After that, the Vedic period spread from the Indo-Gangetic plains.
Detailed explanation-3: -It is believed that the Aryans were descendants of a nomadic group of people who lived in Central Asia, around the Caspian Sea. From these regions, the Aryans migrated to various parts of the world. A number of these Aryan groups migrated to India, who came to be known as the Indo-Aryans.
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.
Detailed explanation-5: -In India, the Aryans first settled in the Land of the Seven Rivers, then known as Saptasindhu. Saptasindhu is the region of modern Punjab.