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{{Short description|Indo-European ethnolinguistic groups primarily concentrated in South Asia}} | |||
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'''Indo-Aryan peoples''' | {{Infobox ethnic group | ||
| group = Indo-Aryan peoples | |||
| image = [[File:Indo-Aryan language map.svg|240px]] | |||
| caption = 1978 map showing geographical distribution of the major Indo-Aryan languages. ([[Urdu]] is included under Hindi. [[Romani language|Romani]], [[Domari language|Domari]], and [[Lomavren language|Lomavren]] are outside the scope of the map.) Dotted/striped areas indicate where [[multilingualism]] is common.{{hidden| | | |||
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{{legend|#fe933c|[[Central Indo-Aryan|Central]]}} | |||
{{legend|#fd15ac|[[Dardic languages|Dardic]]}} | |||
{{legend|#effe27|[[Eastern Indo-Aryan languages|Eastern]]}} | |||
{{legend|#ad27fe|[[Northern Indo-Aryan languages|Northern]]}} | |||
{{legend|#274ffe|[[Northwestern Indo-Aryan languages|Northwestern]]}} | |||
{{legend|#3bed69|[[Western Indo-Aryan|Western]]}} | |||
{{legend|#fe1e1e|[[Southern Indo-Aryan languages|Southern]]}} | |||
}} | |||
| population = ~1.5 billion {{citation needed|date=January 2021}} | |||
| popplace = | |||
| region1 = {{flagcountry|India}} | |||
| pop1 = over 911 million | |||
| ref1 = <ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/india/ |title=India |work=The World Factbook |date=16 November 2021 }}</ref> | |||
| region2 = {{flagcountry|Pakistan}} | |||
| pop2 = over 233 million | |||
| ref2 = <ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/pakistan/ |title=Pakistan |work=The World Factbook |date=4 February 2022 }}</ref> | |||
| region3 = {{flagcountry|Bangladesh}} | |||
| pop3 = over 160 million | |||
| ref3 = <ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/bangladesh/ |title=Bangladesh |work=The World Factbook |date=4 February 2022 }}</ref> | |||
| region4 = {{flagcountry|Nepal}} | |||
| pop4 = over 26 million | |||
| region5 = {{flagcountry|Sri Lanka}} | |||
| pop5 = over 14 million | |||
| region6 = {{flagcountry|Myanmar}} | |||
| pop6 = over 1 million | |||
| region7 = {{flagcountry|Mauritius}} | |||
| pop7 = over 725,400 | |||
| region8 = {{flagcountry|Maldives}} | |||
| pop8 = over 300,000 | |||
| region9 = {{flagcountry|Bhutan}} | |||
| pop9 = over 240,000 | |||
| ref8 = <ref name=UNHCR1>{{cite web |url = http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/country,,MARP,,BTN,,469f386a1e,0.html |title=Population of Lhotshampas in Bhutan |year=2004 |publisher=[[UNHCR]] |access-date=23 March 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121016143502/http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/country%2C%2CMARP%2C%2CBTN%2C%2C469f386a1e%2C0.html |archive-date=16 October 2012 }}</ref> | |||
| langs = [[Indo-Aryan languages]] | |||
| rels = [[Indian religions]] (Mostly [[Hindu]]; with [[Buddhism|Buddhist]], [[Sikh]] and [[Jain]] minorities) and [[Islam]], [[Christianity|Christian]]s and some non-religious [[atheist]]/[[agnostic]] | |||
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'''Indo-Aryan peoples''' are a diverse collection of [[Indo-European languages|Indo-European]] [[people]]s speaking [[Indo-Aryan languages]] in the [[Indian subcontinent]]. Historically, [[Aryan]]s were the [[Indo-Iranians|Indo-Iranian speaking]] [[Pastoralism|pastoralists]] who [[Indo-Aryan migrations|migrated]] from [[Central Asia]] into [[South Asia]] and introduced the [[Proto-Indo-Aryan language]].{{sfn|Anthony|2007}}{{sfn|Erdosy|2012}}<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-46616574|title=How ancient DNA may rewrite prehistory in India|publisher=bbc|date=23 December 2018|access-date=23 November 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/society/history-and-culture/theres-no-confusion-the-new-reports-clearly-confirm-arya-migration-into-india/article61986135.ece|title=New reports clearly confirm 'Arya' migration into India|publisher=thehindu|date=13 September 2019|access-date=23 November 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://theprint.in/pageturner/excerpt/aryans-or-harappans-who-drove-the-creation-of-caste-system-dna-holds-a-clue/686393/|title=Aryans or Harappans—Who drove the creation of caste system? DNA holds a clue|publisher=theprint|date=29 June 2021|access-date=23 November 2022}}</ref> Today, the Indo-Aryan language speakers are found across the modern-day regions of [[Bangladesh]], southern-[[Nepal]], eastern-[[Pakistan]], [[Sri Lanka]], [[Maldives]] and northern-[[India]].<ref>{{cite book|url=|title=The Indo-Aryan Languages|page=2|year=2007|author=Danesh Jain, George Cardona|publisher=Routledge}}</ref> | |||
==History== | ==History== | ||
{{ | === Proto-Indo-Iranians === | ||
{{main|Indo-Iranians|Proto-Indo-Europeans|Aryan|Indo-European migrations|Indo-Aryan migrations}} | |||
{{Further|Genetics and archaeogenetics of South Asia|Peopling of India}} | {{Further|Genetics and archaeogenetics of South Asia|Peopling of India}} | ||
[[File:Indo-Iranian origins.png|thumb|right|Archaeological cultures associated with [[Indo-Iranian | [[File:Indo-Iranian origins.png|thumb|right|Archaeological cultures associated with [[Indo-Iranians|Indo-Iranian migrations]] (after [[Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture|EIEC]]). The [[Andronovo]], [[BMAC]] and [[Yaz culture]]s have often been associated with Indo-Iranian migrations. The [[Gandhara grave culture|GGC]], [[Cemetery H]], [[Copper Hoard culture|Copper Hoard]], [[Ochre Coloured Pottery culture|OCP]], and [[Painted Grey Ware culture|PGW]] cultures are candidates for cultures associated with [[Indo-Aryan migration]]s.]] | ||
The introduction of the [[Indo-Aryan languages]] in the Indian subcontinent was the result of a [[Indo-Aryan migrations|migration of Indo-Aryan people]] from Central Asia into the northern [[Indian subcontinent]] (modern-day [[ | The introduction of the [[Indo-Aryan languages]] in the Indian subcontinent was the result of a [[Indo-Aryan migrations|migration of Indo-Aryan people]] from Central Asia into the northern [[Indian subcontinent]] (modern-day [[Bangladesh]], [[Bhutan]], [[India]], [[Nepal]], [[Pakistan]], and [[Sri Lanka]]). These migrations started approximately 1,800 BCE, after the invention of the war chariot, and also brought Indo-Aryan languages into the [[Levant]] and possibly [[Inner Asia]].{{sfn|Anthony|2009|p=49}} Another group of the Indo-Aryans migrated further westward and founded the [[Mitanni]] kingdom in northern Syria;{{sfn|Anthony|2007|p=454}} (c. 1500–1300 BC) the other group were the Vedic people.{{sfn|Beckwith|2009|p=33 note 20}} [[Christopher I. Beckwith]] suggests that the [[Wusun]], an [[Proto-Indo-Europeans|Indo-European]] [[Caucasian race|Caucasian]] people of [[Inner Asia]] in [[Ancient history|antiquity]], were also of Indo-Aryan origin.{{sfn|Beckwith|2009|p=376-7}} | ||
The [[Proto-Indo-Iranians]], from which the Indo-Aryans developed, are identified with the [[Sintashta culture]] (2100–1800 BCE),{{sfn|Anthony|2007|p=390 (fig. 15.9), 405–411}}{{sfn|Kuz'mina|2007|p=222}} and the [[Andronovo culture]],{{sfn|Anthony|2009|p=49}} which flourished ca. 1800–1400 BCE in the steppes around the [[Aral | The [[Indo-Iranians|Proto-Indo-Iranians]], from which the Indo-Aryans developed, are identified with the [[Sintashta culture]] (2100–1800 BCE),{{sfn|Anthony|2007|p=390 (fig. 15.9), 405–411}}{{sfn|Kuz'mina|2007|p=222}} and the [[Andronovo culture]],{{sfn|Anthony|2009|p=49}} which flourished ca. 1800–1400 BCE in the steppes around the [[Aral Sea]], present-day Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. The Proto-Indo-Aryan split off around 1800–1600 BCE from the Iranians,{{sfn|Anthony|2007|p=408}} moved south through the [[Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex|Bactria-Margiana Culture]], south of the Andronovo culture, borrowing some of their distinctive religious beliefs and practices from the BMAC, and then migrated further south into the [[Levant]] and north-western India.<ref>George Erdosy (1995). "The Indo-Aryans of Ancient South Asia: Language, Material Culture and Ethnicity", p. 279</ref>{{sfn|Anthony|2007}} The migration of the Indo-Aryans was part of the larger diffusion of [[Indo-European languages]] from the [[Proto-Indo-European homeland]] at the [[Pontic–Caspian steppe]] which started in the 4th millennia BCE.{{sfn|Anthony|2007}}<ref>Johannes Krause mit Thomas Trappe: ''Die Reise unserer Gene. Eine Geschichte über uns und unsere Vorfahren.'' Propyläen Verlag, Berlin 2019, p. 148 ff.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/all-indoeuropean-languages-may-have-originated-from-this-one-place/|title=All Indo-European Languages May Have Originated From This One Place|website=IFLScience|date=24 May 2018 |language=en|access-date=26 December 2019}}</ref> The [[Gandhara grave culture|GGC]], [[Cemetery H]], [[Copper Hoard culture|Copper Hoard]], [[Ochre Coloured Pottery culture|OCP]], and [[Painted Grey Ware culture|PGW]] cultures are candidates for cultures associated with Indo-Aryans. | ||
The Indo-Aryans were united by shared cultural norms and language, referred to as ''aryā'', | The Indo-Aryans were united by shared cultural norms and language, referred to as ''aryā'' 'noble'. Over the last four millennia, the Indo-Aryan culture has evolved particularly inside India itself, but its origins are in the conflation of values and heritage of the Indo-Aryan and indigenous people groups of India.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Avari |first=Burjor |url= |title=India: The Ancient Past: A History of the Indian Sub-Continent from c. 7000 BC to AD 1200 |date=2007-06-11 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-25161-2 |pages=xvii |language=en}}</ref> Diffusion of this culture and language took place by patron-client systems, which allowed for the absorption and acculturation of other groups into this culture, and explains the strong influence on other cultures with which it interacted. | ||
While the Indo-Aryan linguistic group occupies mainly northern parts of India, genetically, all South Asians across the Indian subcontinent are descendants | While the Indo-Aryan linguistic group occupies mainly northern parts of India, genetically, all South Asians across the Indian subcontinent are descendants of a mix of South Asian hunter-gatherers, Iranian hunter-gatherers, and Central Asian steppe pastoralists in varying proportion.{{sfn|Reich et al.|2009}}{{sfn|Narasimhan et al.|2019}} Additionally, Austroasiatic and Tibeto-Burmese speaking people contributed to the genetic make-up of South Asia.{{sfn|Basu et al.|2016}} | ||
[[Indigenous Aryanism]] propagates the idea that the Indo-Aryans were indigenous to the Indian subcontinent, and that the Indo-European languages spread from there to central Asia and Europe. Contemporary support for this idea is ideologically driven, and has no basis in objective data and mainstream scholarship.{{sfn|Witzel|2001|p=95}}{{sfn|Jamison|2006}}{{sfn|Guha|2007|p=341}}{{sfn|Fosse|2005|p=438}}{{snf|Olson|2016|p=136}} | [[Indigenous Aryanism]] propagates the idea that the Indo-Aryans were indigenous to the Indian subcontinent, and that the Indo-European languages spread from there to central Asia and Europe. Contemporary support for this idea is ideologically driven, and has no basis in objective data and mainstream scholarship.{{sfn|Witzel|2001|p=95}}{{sfn|Jamison|2006}}{{sfn|Guha|2007|p=341}}{{sfn|Fosse|2005|p=438}}{{snf|Olson|2016|p=136}} | ||
== List of historical Indo-Aryan peoples == | == List of historical Indo-Aryan peoples == | ||
{{See also|List of | {{See also|List of ancient Indo-Aryan peoples and tribes}} | ||
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{{div col |colwidth = 18em }} | * [[Anga]] | ||
* [[Anga]] | |||
* [[Bahlikas]] | * [[Bahlikas]] | ||
* [[Bharatas (tribe)|Bharatas]] | * [[Bharatas (tribe)|Bharatas]] | ||
* [[ | * [[Cedī (tribe)|Caidya]]s | ||
* [[Dewa]] | * [[Dewa (people)|Dewa]] | ||
* [[ | * [[Gandhāra (kingdom)|Gāndhārī]]s | ||
* [[Gangaridai]] | * [[Gangaridai]] | ||
* [[Kambojas]] | * [[Kambojas]] | ||
* [[Kalinga (historical kingdom)|Kalinga]] | * [[Kalinga (historical kingdom)|Kalinga]] | ||
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* [[Khasas]] | * [[Khasas]] | ||
* [[Kikata Kingdom|Kikata]] | * [[Kikata Kingdom|Kikata]] | ||
* [[Koliya]] | |||
* [[Kosala]] | * [[Kosala]] | ||
* [[Kuru (kingdom)|Kurus]] | * [[Kuru (kingdom)|Kurus]] | ||
* [[Licchavi ( | * [[Licchavi (tribe)|Licchavi]]s | ||
* [[Madra Kingdom|Madra]] | * [[Madra Kingdom|Madra]] | ||
* [[Magadha|Magadhis]] | * [[Magadha|Magadhis]] | ||
* [[Malavas]] | * [[Malavas]] | ||
* [[Malla ( | * [[Malla (tribe)|Mallaka]]s | ||
* [[Matsya | * [[Matsya (tribe)|Mātsyeya]]s | ||
* [[ | * [[Moriya (tribe)|Moriya]] | ||
* [[Nishadha Kingdom|Nishadhas]] | * [[Nishadha Kingdom|Nishadhas]] | ||
* [[Odra Kingdom|Odra]] | * [[Odra Kingdom|Odra]] | ||
* [[Pakthas]] | * [[Pakthas]] | ||
* [[Panchala]] | * [[Panchala]] | ||
* [[Pundra Kingdom|Paundra]] | * [[Pundra Kingdom|Paundra]] | ||
* [[Puru (Vedic tribe)|Puru]] | * [[Puru (Vedic tribe)|Puru]] | ||
* [[Salva (India)|Salva]] | * [[Salva (India)|Salva]] | ||
* [[Salwa Kingdom|Salwa]] | * [[Salwa Kingdom|Salwa]] | ||
* [[Saraswata Kingdom|Saraswata]] | * [[Saraswata Kingdom|Saraswata]] | ||
* [[ | * [[Sindhu-Sauvīra|Sauvira]] | ||
* [[Shakya]] | * [[Shakya]] | ||
* [[Sindhu | * [[Sindhu-Sauvīra|Sindhu]] | ||
* [[Sudra Kingdom|Sudra]] | * [[Sudra Kingdom|Sudra]] | ||
* [[Surasena]] | * [[Surasena]] | ||
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* [[Yadava]] | * [[Yadava]] | ||
* [[Yadu]] | * [[Yadu]] | ||
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== Contemporary Indo-Aryan | == Contemporary Indo-Aryan people == | ||
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* [[Assamese people]] | * [[Assamese people]] | ||
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* [[Chakma people]] | * [[Chakma people]] | ||
* [[Deccani people]] | * [[Deccani people]] | ||
* [[Dhivehi people]] | * [[Dhivehi people]] | ||
* [[Dogra people]] | * [[Dogra people]] | ||
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* [[Jaunsari people]] | * [[Jaunsari people]] | ||
* [[Kalash people]] | * [[Kalash people]] | ||
* [[Kashmiri people]] | * [[Kashmiri people]] | ||
* [[Khas people]] | * [[Khas people]] | ||
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* [[Kutchi people]] | * [[Kutchi people]] | ||
* [[Magahi people]] | * [[Magahi people]] | ||
* [[Muhajir (Pakistan)|Muhajir people]] | |||
* [[Maithils|Maithil people]] | * [[Maithils|Maithil people]] | ||
* [[Marathi people]] | * [[Marathi people]] | ||
* [[Marwari people]] | * [[Marwari people]] | ||
* [[ | * [[Nagpuria people]] | ||
* [[Odia people]] | * [[Odia people]] | ||
* [[Pashayi people]] | * [[Pashayi people]] | ||
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* [[Romani people]] | * [[Romani people]] | ||
* [[Rohingya people]] | * [[Rohingya people]] | ||
* [[Sadan people]] | |||
* [[Saraiki people]] | * [[Saraiki people]] | ||
* [[Saurashtra people]] | * [[Saurashtra people]] | ||
* [[Shina people]] | |||
* [[Sindhi people]] | * [[Sindhi people]] | ||
* [[Sinhalese people]] | * [[Sinhalese people]] | ||
* [[Tharu people]] | * [[Tharu people]] | ||
* [[Warli]] | * [[Thori (tribe)|Thori people]] | ||
* [[Warli|Warli people]] | |||
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== See also == | == See also == | ||
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*[[Proto-Indo-Europeans]] | |||
*[[Indo-Iranians]] | *[[Indo-Iranians]] | ||
*[[Dardic peoples]] | *[[Dardic peoples]] | ||
*[[Aryan]] | *[[Aryan]] | ||
*[[Indo-Aryan languages]] | |||
*[[Indo-Aryan migrations]] | |||
*[[Indigenous Aryanism]] | |||
*[[Aryan race]] | *[[Aryan race]] | ||
*[[Aryavarta]] | *[[Aryavarta]] | ||
*[[Dasa]] | *[[Dasa]] | ||
*[[Dravidian peoples]] | *[[Dravidian peoples]] | ||
*[[Early Indians]] | *''[[Early Indians]]'' | ||
*[[Indian diaspora]] | *[[Indian diaspora]] | ||
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== References == | == References == | ||
{{Reflist}} | {{Reflist}} | ||
== Sources == | |||
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* {{cite book |last = Anthony | first = David W. |year = 2007 |title = The Horse The Wheel And Language. How Bronze-Age Riders From the Eurasian Steppes Shaped The Modern World | publisher = Princeton University Press }} | * {{cite book |last = Anthony | first = David W. |year = 2007 |title = The Horse The Wheel And Language. How Bronze-Age Riders From the Eurasian Steppes Shaped The Modern World | publisher = Princeton University Press }} | ||
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* {{cite journal |vauthors = Basu A, Sarkar-Roy N, Majumder PP |title = Genomic reconstruction of the history of extant populations of India reveals five distinct ancestral components and a complex structure |journal = Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |volume=113|issue=6|pages=1594–9|date=February 2016 |pmid=26811443|pmc=4760789 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1513197113 |ref={{sfnref|Basu et al.|2016}} |bibcode=2016PNAS..113.1594B }} | * {{cite journal |vauthors = Basu A, Sarkar-Roy N, Majumder PP |title = Genomic reconstruction of the history of extant populations of India reveals five distinct ancestral components and a complex structure |journal = Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |volume=113|issue=6|pages=1594–9|date=February 2016 |pmid=26811443|pmc=4760789 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1513197113 |ref={{sfnref|Basu et al.|2016}} |bibcode=2016PNAS..113.1594B |doi-access = free }} | ||
* {{cite book |last=Beckwith |first=Christopher I. |author-link = Christopher I. Beckwith |title= Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=-Ue8BxLEMt4C |date=16 March 2009 |publisher=[[Princeton University Press]] |isbn=978-1400829941 |access-date=30 December 2014 }} | * {{cite book |last=Beckwith |first=Christopher I. |author-link = Christopher I. Beckwith |title= Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=-Ue8BxLEMt4C |date=16 March 2009 |publisher=[[Princeton University Press]] |isbn=978-1400829941 |access-date=30 December 2014 }} | ||
* {{Cite book| last=Bryant | first=Edwin | author-link=Edwin Bryant (author) | title=The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture | publisher=Oxford University Press | year=2001 | isbn=0-19-513777-9}} | * {{Cite book| last=Bryant | first=Edwin | author-link=Edwin Bryant (author) | title=The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture | publisher=Oxford University Press | year=2001 | isbn=0-19-513777-9}} | ||
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* {{Citation | last =Fosse | first =Lars Martin | year =2005 | chapter =ARYAN PAST AND POST-COLONIAL PRESENT. The polemics and politics of indigenous Aryanism | editor-last1 =Bryant | editor-first1 =Edwin | editor-last2 =Patton | editor-first2 = Laurie L. | title =The Indo-Aryan Controversy. Evidence and inference in Indian history | publisher =Routledge }} | * {{Citation | last =Fosse | first =Lars Martin | year =2005 | chapter =ARYAN PAST AND POST-COLONIAL PRESENT. The polemics and politics of indigenous Aryanism | editor-last1 =Bryant | editor-first1 =Edwin | editor-last2 =Patton | editor-first2 = Laurie L. | title =The Indo-Aryan Controversy. Evidence and inference in Indian history | publisher =Routledge }} | ||
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== External links == | == External links == | ||
*[http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/RAJARAM/Har1.pdf Horseplay at Harappa | *[http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/RAJARAM/Har1.pdf Horseplay at Harappa – People Fas Harvard – Harvard University] (PDF) | ||
*[http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl1723/17231220.htm A tale of two horses] | *[http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl1723/17231220.htm A tale of two horses] – ''[[Frontline (magazine)|Frontline]]'' | ||
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Total population | |
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~1.5 billion[citation needed] | |
Regions with significant populations | |
India | over 911 million[1] |
Pakistan | over 233 million[2] |
Bangladesh | over 160 million[3] |
Nepal | over 26 million |
Sri Lanka | over 14 million |
Myanmar | over 1 million |
Mauritius | over 725,400 |
Maldives | over 300,000[4] |
Bhutan | over 240,000 |
Languages | |
Indo-Aryan languages | |
Religion | |
Indian religions (Mostly Hindu; with Buddhist, Sikh and Jain minorities) and Islam, Christians and some non-religious atheist/agnostic |
Indo-Aryan peoples are a diverse collection of Indo-European peoples speaking Indo-Aryan languages in the Indian subcontinent. Historically, Aryans were the Indo-Iranian speaking pastoralists who migrated from Central Asia into South Asia and introduced the Proto-Indo-Aryan language.[5][6][7][8][9] Today, the Indo-Aryan language speakers are found across the modern-day regions of Bangladesh, southern-Nepal, eastern-Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Maldives and northern-India.[10]
History[edit]
Proto-Indo-Iranians[edit]
The introduction of the Indo-Aryan languages in the Indian subcontinent was the result of a migration of Indo-Aryan people from Central Asia into the northern Indian subcontinent (modern-day Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka). These migrations started approximately 1,800 BCE, after the invention of the war chariot, and also brought Indo-Aryan languages into the Levant and possibly Inner Asia.[11] Another group of the Indo-Aryans migrated further westward and founded the Mitanni kingdom in northern Syria;[12] (c. 1500–1300 BC) the other group were the Vedic people.[13] Christopher I. Beckwith suggests that the Wusun, an Indo-European Caucasian people of Inner Asia in antiquity, were also of Indo-Aryan origin.[14]
The Proto-Indo-Iranians, from which the Indo-Aryans developed, are identified with the Sintashta culture (2100–1800 BCE),[15][16] and the Andronovo culture,[11] which flourished ca. 1800–1400 BCE in the steppes around the Aral Sea, present-day Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. The Proto-Indo-Aryan split off around 1800–1600 BCE from the Iranians,[17] moved south through the Bactria-Margiana Culture, south of the Andronovo culture, borrowing some of their distinctive religious beliefs and practices from the BMAC, and then migrated further south into the Levant and north-western India.[18][5] The migration of the Indo-Aryans was part of the larger diffusion of Indo-European languages from the Proto-Indo-European homeland at the Pontic–Caspian steppe which started in the 4th millennia BCE.[5][19][20] The GGC, Cemetery H, Copper Hoard, OCP, and PGW cultures are candidates for cultures associated with Indo-Aryans.
The Indo-Aryans were united by shared cultural norms and language, referred to as aryā 'noble'. Over the last four millennia, the Indo-Aryan culture has evolved particularly inside India itself, but its origins are in the conflation of values and heritage of the Indo-Aryan and indigenous people groups of India.[21] Diffusion of this culture and language took place by patron-client systems, which allowed for the absorption and acculturation of other groups into this culture, and explains the strong influence on other cultures with which it interacted.
While the Indo-Aryan linguistic group occupies mainly northern parts of India, genetically, all South Asians across the Indian subcontinent are descendants of a mix of South Asian hunter-gatherers, Iranian hunter-gatherers, and Central Asian steppe pastoralists in varying proportion.[22][23] Additionally, Austroasiatic and Tibeto-Burmese speaking people contributed to the genetic make-up of South Asia.[24]
Indigenous Aryanism propagates the idea that the Indo-Aryans were indigenous to the Indian subcontinent, and that the Indo-European languages spread from there to central Asia and Europe. Contemporary support for this idea is ideologically driven, and has no basis in objective data and mainstream scholarship.[25][26][27][28][29]
List of historical Indo-Aryan peoples[edit]
- Anga
- Bahlikas
- Bharatas
- Caidyas
- Dewa
- Gāndhārīs
- Gangaridai
- Kambojas
- Kalinga
- Kasmira
- Kekaya
- Khasas
- Kikata
- Koliya
- Kosala
- Kurus
- Licchavis
- Madra
- Magadhis
- Malavas
- Mallakas
- Mātsyeyas
- Moriya
- Nishadhas
- Odra
- Pakthas
- Panchala
- Paundra
- Puru
- Salva
- Salwa
- Saraswata
- Sauvira
- Shakya
- Sindhu
- Sudra
- Surasena
- Trigarta
- Utkala
- Vanga
- Vatsa
- Vidarbha
- Videha
- Yadava
- Yadu
Contemporary Indo-Aryan people[edit]
- Assamese people
- Awadhi people
- Banjara people
- Bengali people
- Bhil people
- Bhojpuri people
- Bishnupriya Manipuri people
- Brokpa people
- Chakma people
- Deccani people
- Dhivehi people
- Dogra people
- Garhwali people
- Gujarati people
- Halba people
- Haryanvi people
- Jaunsari people
- Kalash people
- Kashmiri people
- Khas people
- Kho people
- Kohistani people
- Konkani people
- Kumauni people
- Kutchi people
- Magahi people
- Muhajir people
- Maithil people
- Marathi people
- Marwari people
- Nagpuria people
- Odia people
- Pashayi people
- Punjabi people
- Rajasthani people
- Romani people
- Rohingya people
- Sadan people
- Saraiki people
- Saurashtra people
- Shina people
- Sindhi people
- Sinhalese people
- Tharu people
- Thori people
- Warli people
See also[edit]
References[edit]
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