The Indo-Aryans filtered into India from Afghanistan in a Migration from 1900 BC to about 1400 BC. Today these peoples, and the Asian Mundas, and the Aboriginal Adivasis, who are Australoids, are blended together into one race, Indian. read more
According to one school of thought the Aryans came in hordes and first settled in northwestern India, from where they migrated gradually towards the Gangetic valley, north eastern India and southern India. According to some, they probably came in two or more waves and colonized the land. read more
The Pith:In India 5,000 years ago there were the hunter-gathers. Then came the Dravidian farmers. Finally came the Indo-Aryan cattle herders. There is a new paper out of the Reich lab, Genetic Evidence for Recent Population Mixture in India, which follows up on their seminal 2009 work, Reconstructing Indian Population History. read more