Indigenous Aryans

An ostrich-like attitude is perpetuating the Aryan invasion myth. ~ B. B. Lal

Indigenous Aryans, also known as the Out of India theory (OIT), is the idea that the Aryans are indigenous to the Indian subcontinent. Support for the idea mostly exists among a subset of Indian scholars, and plays a significant role in Hindutva politics. It has no relevance, let alone support, in mainstream scholarship.

Quotes

• Most of the debate is founded upon the failure to understand linguistics and on political motivations having nothing to do with linguistics or history.
  • Christopher I. Beckwith, Empires of the Silk Road (Princeton UP, 2009), p. 34, note 25

• An ostrich-like attitude is perpetuating the Aryan invasion myth.
  • B.B. Lal, Braj Basi Lal (2010): “An Ostrich-like Attitude Is Perpetuating the ‘Aryan Invasion’ Myth”, in B. R. Singh (ed.) (2010), p. 23-36. Bal Ram Singh (2010): Origin of Indian Civilization, Dartmouth MA, Center for Indic Studies - Delhi, D.K. Printworld.

• No Sanskrit book or history records that the Aryas came here from Iran. ... How then can the writings of foreigners be worth believing in the teeth of this testimony?
  • (Dayananda, Sarasvati 1988 220); in Bryant, E. F. (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture: the Indo-Aryan migration debate. Oxford University Press. ch 13