Origin of Aryan heritage in India

The Aryan heritage of South Asia has long been questioned and the Aryan invasion theory has been challenged multiple times. Yet many things corroborate that there was in fact an infusion of Aryan tribes from the north west into the Subcontinent.

The Aryans are said to descend from a horse-riding, tribal, Indo-European culture called Sintasha. The Sintasha were located in the Eurasian steppes. A tribe from the Sintasaha called the Aryans broke off, traveled east and colonized the Iranian plateau. They developed an Avestan, Zoroastrian culture. The Persians and modern Iranians are descendants of these early Aryans.

Further fragmentation of tribes occurred and five well-documented Aryan tribes settled down in the Indus valley and the Indo-Gangetic plain.

Table showing a few of the remarkably similar ideas and language of the Avestan-Iranian and Vedic Aryan culture. Language sampled from sources dating to 2000 BCE.

Dispersal of the Indo-European Sintasha tribes (Red) from the Eurasian steppes to Europe and South Asia (Orange). 4000 BCE to 1000 BCE