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    The early Vedic age in India is dated to around 1500-1200 BCE. During this time, groups of Indo-Aryan peoples migrated from Central Asia into northwestern India after the collapse of the Indus Valley civilization around 1900 BCE. The Indo-Aryans were a subgroup of Indo-Iranians who diverged from other tribes and brought distinctive religious traditions with them as they moved through areas like Bactria-Margiana (northern Afghanistan) and eventually settled in northwest India. Though some Indian scholars argue for an indigenous origin of the Indo-Aryans, the academic view is that they migrated from outside India, interacting with local cultures as they established themselves in the subcontinent.

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    The early Vedic age in India is dated to around 1500-1200 BCE. During this time, groups of Indo-Aryan peoples migrated from Central Asia into northwestern India after the collapse of the Indus Valley civilization around 1900 BCE. The Indo-Aryans were a subgroup of Indo-Iranians who diverged from other tribes and brought distinctive religious traditions with them as they moved through areas like Bactria-Margiana (northern Afghanistan) and eventually settled in northwest India. Though some Indian scholars argue for an indigenous origin of the Indo-Aryans, the academic view is that they migrated from outside India, interacting with local cultures as they established themselves in the subcontinent.

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    The early Vedic age in India is dated to around 1500-1200 BCE. During this time, groups of Indo-Aryan peoples migrated from Central Asia into northwestern India after the collapse of the Indus Valley civilization around 1900 BCE. The Indo-Aryans were a subgroup of Indo-Iranians who diverged from other tribes and brought distinctive religious traditions with them as they moved through areas like Bactria-Margiana (northern Afghanistan) and eventually settled in northwest India. Though some Indian scholars argue for an indigenous origin of the Indo-Aryans, the academic view is that they migrated from outside India, interacting with local cultures as they established themselves in the subcontinent.

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    The early Vedic age is historically dated to the second half of the second millennium BCE.

    Historically, after the collapse of the Indus Valley civilization, which occurred around 1900
    BCE,groups of Indo-Aryan peoples migrated into north-western India and started to inhabit
    the northern Indus Valley. The Indo-Aryans represented a sub-group that diverged from
    other Indo-Iranian tribes at the Andronovo horizon before the middle of the 2nd millennium
    BCE.The Indo-Iranians originated in the Sintashta culture, from which arose the subsequent
    Andronovo horizon. The Indo-Aryans migrated through the adjacent Bactria–Margiana area
    (present-day northern Afghanistan) to northwest India, followed by the rise of the Iranian Yaz
    culture at c. 1500 BCE, and the Iranian migrations into Iran at c. 800 BCE. Archaeological
    cultures associated with Indo-Iranian migrations ). The Andronovo, BMAC and Yaz cultures
    have often been associated with Indo-Iranian migrations. The GGC, Cemetery H, Copper
    Hoard and PGW cultures are candidates for cultures associated with Indo-Aryan
    movements.Some Indian writers and archaeologists have opposed the notion of a migration
    of Indo-Aryans into India, and argued for an indigenous origin of the Indo-Aryans. In this
    view, "the Indian civilization must be viewed as an unbroken tradition that goes back to the
    earliest period of the Sindhu-Sarasvati (or Indus) tradition (7000 or 8000 BCE)." Though
    popular in India, and reflecting Indian views on Indian history and religion,[19] the idea of a
    purely indigenous origin of the Indo-Aryans is outside the academic mainstream.The
    knowledge about the Aryans comes mostly from the Rigveda-samhita,the oldest layer of the
    Vedas, which was composed c. 1200–1000 BCE. They brought with them their distinctive
    religious traditions and practices.The Vedic beliefs and practices of the pre-classical era
    were closely related to the hypothesised Proto-Indo-European religion,and the Indo-Iranian
    religion.] Funeral sacrifices from the Sintashta-culture show close parallels to the sacrificial
    funeral rites of the Rigveda, while, according to Anthony, the Old Indic religion probably
    emerged among Indo-European immigrants in the contact zone between the Zeravshan
    River (present-day Uzbekistan) and (present-day) Tajikistan. It was "a syncretic mixture of
    old Central Asian and new Indo-European elements",which borrowed "distinctive religious
    beliefs and practices" from the Bactria–Margiana culture,] including the god Indra and the
    ritual drink Soma.

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