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Where did Indians' ancient ancestors come from? Indo-Aryan debate rages on

Indo-Aryan people are an ethnolinguistic group of people that speak diverse Indo-Aryan languages

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Subhashish Panigrahi | Global Voices
Indo-Aryan migration theory, a controversy for the ages, is fueling discussions once more in India after an article published in The Hindu newspaper highlighted the genetic evidence that the Indo-Aryan peoples came from Central Asia and Europe to South Asia.
Indo-Aryan peoples are an ethnolinguistic group of people that speak diverse Indo-Aryan languages and currently live predominantly in the South Asian region. The population of the modern descendants of this group is more than 1 billion, or a seventh of world's population.
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