WORLD RELIGIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -The Indo-Aryan tribes may have been present in the area of the BMAC from 1700 BCE at the latest (incidentally corresponding with the decline of that culture). From the BMAC, the Indo-Aryans moved into the Indian subcontinent.

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: -Scholars debate when exactly these massive migrations began-some say as early as 8000-5000 BCE, while others put it fairly late, after 3000 BCE-but it’s clear that by the third millennium (3000-2000 BCE) the Indo-Europeans were on the move.