who were the Aryans?when and how did they came to India
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In about 2000 B.C., migration of people who perhaps originally inhabited the Caspian Sea region began to different parts of Europe and Asia. These people are called Indo-European speaking people as they spoke languages belonging to the Indo-European family of languages. They are also known as Aryans.
A branch of these people, called Indo-Aryans came to India around 1500 B.C. Their occupations were cattle –raising and agriculture and they had no experience with urban culture.
The Aryans lived in tribes and used to used to speak Sanskrit which is a language of the Indo-European group. They worshiped the forces of nature – the god of rain and thunder (Indra), of the wind (Varuna) and the Sun (Surya). These gods gave rain so the people believed ripened their crops and helped to defeat enemies.
Punjab was the first permanent home of the Aryans in India. The hymns of the Rigveda were composed here. From Punjab, they moved eastward and spread all over the Gangetic valley and moved southward as far as the Vindhya Mountains. Later, they went to other parts of India. They inter-married with the local inhabitants and the Indian culture that began to develop was a mixture of elements of Vedic and pre-Vedic cultures.
When the Aryans settled in India, they were divided into a number of small tribes which fought with one another and with the earlier inhabitants. In course of time, small states were formed which were ruled by kings or aristocracies. By the 6th century B.C. larger states, both kingdoms and republics developed.
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