The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c16.s1.51

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(2) On the question of chronology, the main conflict is with archaeological dating of the Aryans. Giving the most liberal margin, we cannot take them earlier than 2000 B.C., unless, as is claimed by certain writers, our Indus Valley civilization proves to be Aryan. The widespread distribution of this civilization from the foot-hills of the Himalayas to the Arabian sea certainly conflicts with the traditions of the land-locked Aryans, of the Rigvedic period, who did not know the sea. But the generality of opinion seems to favour the theory that Harappan is Pre-Aryan and non-Aryan.