If you thought you've seen all of the possible theories about Aryans in India, you're wrong. After Aryan Invasion Theory, and Aryan Migration Theory, now there is AOT: Aryan Outsourcing Theory!
From here, with google translate:
http://sargasso.nl/indische-oceaan-2-eerste-handelsnetwerken/
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In the latter days of the Indus civilization, the townspeople may have hired Indo-Aryan charioteers to fight their wars. After the eventual demise of the Indus civilization pulled these Indo-Aryan warriors with their families and their livestock through to the Indus-Ganga plains, where they are of different kingdoms founded. They brought Y-DNA haplogroup R1a1a with them, today one of the biggest haplogroups in India. The customs of these Indo-Arian migrants would form the basis for the Vedic religion.
From here, with google translate:
http://sargasso.nl/indische-oceaan-2-eerste-handelsnetwerken/
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Sargasso exists since 2001 and is one of the oldest weblogs in the Netherlands. In the rich history of Sargasso you will find the introduction of the live blog in the Netherlands, the coins of the term reaguurder, putting data journalism on the map and the struggle for more transparency in public administration (witness the many Wob procedures that Sargasso conducted has).
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macgupta 81p · 381 weeks ago
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macgupta 81p · 379 weeks ago
2. Whether they took over or not, they adopted the Saraswati-Sindhu language(s).
guest · 379 weeks ago
macgupta 81p · 378 weeks ago
2. English was in decline in India soon after Independence (see articles from the 1980s). English picked up as India re-engaged with the American-led international economy.
3. The dominance of English into the indefinite future is far from assured. China, ASEAN, India, and the European Union (minus Great Britain) will each be non-English-native-language states of equal or greater weight than the USA-Great Britain-Canada-Australia-New Zealand combine. If South America gets its act together, so will it. I don't know where Africa is headed.
4. There is actually no evidence of what language was spoken in Central Asia 5000 years ago or 4000 years ago or 3000 years ago. No literature or writing or description of their language by outsiders has survived. You have to make some assumptions to make the statement that you do. It might be a useful exercise for you to write out those assumptions.
5. The link between genes and language is tenuous at best. Since you bring up the English in India example (your example, not mine, I don't think it is appropriate), think about it. When you write out your assumptions if you undertake the suggested exercise, this is worth thinking about - when do languages correlate with genes and when do they not?
macgupta 81p · 378 weeks ago
guest · 378 weeks ago
Re #4. The assumptions are laid out in detail in such works as Mallory's The Search for the Indo-Europeans, but here are some key ones: Languages develop in intercommunicating groups, which were small in pre-civilization days, the vast spread of Indo-European languages was carried by either potent cultural or (more likely) physical spread of the speakers, the presence of closely related words in all or nearly all IE languages indicates their presence in the original culture, as well as the physical objects the words correspond to, e.g., horses, carts, and other technologies. Further, it's known that two major genetic and cultural spread over much of Eurasia - first, diffusion of agriculture from Anatolia and the Middle East, and second, diffusion of pastoralism from Central Asia. One or both of these is the likely origin of Indo-European.