Aryan Invasion of India: Myth or Reality?

DNA evidence has shed new light on the origins of the Indian people, the Hindu religion and the Sanskrit language. Pastoralists of the Andronovo /Sintashta culture from the Bronze age steppe invaded India from the North West and brought Indo-European languages to the Indian subcontinent. These pastoralists were ethnically North Eastern European people, and they mixed with Indians to create the modern genetic diversity of India. This theory has been developed over 200 years, and has often been attacked as a colonial fable or even as Nazi propaganda, but now genetic science has vindicated the Victorian scholars who said the roots of the Aryans lay in the Corded Ware culture of Europe.

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00:00 History of Aryan invasion theory
10:27 Yamnaya and modern DNA
15:29 Who brought Yamnaya DNA into India?
18:27 Why do some Indians look white?
20:08 Ancient DNA from India
28:31 Conclusion

[markaxworthy]

Respect to Colin Renfrew for conceding that his own theory was wrong. That is the mark of a principled man who does not let his ego interfere with the facts.

[Survivethejive]

Saying they were central asians because they entered India from central Asia is like saying British people were fish because they entered India from the sea

[javonsteadman]

I never knew conner McGregor was such a history buff

[md]

As an Indian it was very difficult to find an unbiased analysis of the topic as everyone could be affected by their political inclinations, so I find this video very helpful and has cleared doubts about the validity of the theory in my mind.

[stefano_etrusco]

What most Indians who challenge this theory fail to understand is the fact that these proto-Indo-Europeans didn’t come from (Western) Europe.
They migrated west and invaded Europe exactly as they migrated southeast, towards Iran and India.
In Europe they mixed in various proportions with pre-existing West European hunters-gatherers and Early European farmers, giving birth to the ethnic mosaic that is Europe today. Exactly the same way as today’s India sees a very diverse genetic pool, where Aryan component is just one of many.
So this is NOT a justification for past British rule over India at all.
The common roots in Yamnaya culture between Europe and Iran or India are more linguistic or paleo-cultural than genetic.

[brandonsmith]

I'm so glad that atleast someone from west is speaking against the sponsored historical nonsense in India.

[sauravpaul]

Interesting fact: Old Rigvedic God (still worshipped in India), Indra, the God of rain and lightning bears a resemblance to Zeus, Thor, Perun etc
1. All of them are personified as god of thunder.
2. All of them are king of other personifications of nature.
3. Indra's weapon is 'Bajra' or lightning literally.
4. All live atop the clouds.

[Survivethejive]

Corrections:
1.I said that Yamnaya were a chariot riding people. They were not. They had wagons but no chariots. chariots were invented around 2000 BC by the Sintashta culture which is descended from Corded Ware who are related to Yamnaya.
2. I seemed to indicate there was no EEF DNA in India, but there is. the 2016 lazaridis paper just missed it.
3. Since this video came out we have discovered the origin of the specific subclade of R1a that is found in Asia and it is among the Fatyanovo culture in Western Russia, which is itself a regional variant of the Corded Ware culture. Therefore central Asian Aryans of Sintashta and Andronovo culture were to some extent descended from the Fatyanovo culture.

[mihailopetrovic]

In Serbian:
Swastika - Svastika - sister in law
Kaliyuga - kaljuga - heavy mud
...

[TheGreenKnight]

I think it's unfortunate that this has become such a controversial subject. I think the shared ancestry between Europeans and Indians should be a source of mutual understanding and kinship between us. It's nice to think that pieces of the culture of my ancestors that were lost in Europe live on in India.

[arpanapalle]

As an Indian I appriciate this unbiased analysis of yours. You are so right. Our genes tell a story that cannot be disputed.

[arkitectoor]

Pointing to some bones doesn't make it an invasion. A migration does not mean they are the ones that brought Hinduism. Siva/yogi coins were found in Indus valley artifacts.

[niharbehere]

As someone of North Indian descent as well... thank you, the sheer amount of people I’ve met that deny the hypothesis is appalling

[donjohn]

You are doing a great Job. Many historian avoid this controversial topic. Many youtubers are trolled for making anything related to Indian history.

[Sinsteel]

"an invasion...we can call it a migration, if you prefer." It wouldn't be the first time an invasion was called a migration!

[OccidentalAryan]

Contrary to what a lot of Indian nationalists will claim, the "Rakhigarhi Skeleton" in no way debunks AIT/AMT. I suggest anyone interested in the topic to actually google the study published by Prof. Vasant Shinde and Dr. Niraj Rai. No matter how much they may attempt to twist the data into fitting their politically biased position, it doesn't support the Indigenous Aryans hypothesis at all.

Illegitimate historical revisionism is running rampant in India these days and is even openly supported by the government. This really needs to be stamped out because in my opinion it's a national embarkment for the country. I, as a European nationalist, fully support Indian nationalism, however what I will not participate in is pseudoscience.

[augustuscaesar]

English: *Father*
Sanskrit: *Pitar*
Latin: *Pater*
French: *Pere*
Spanish & Italian: *Padre*
German: *Vater*
Gaelic: *Athair*
Greek: *Pateras*
▪︎Tocharian: *Pacar*
Punjabi: *Pita*
Hittite: *Attas*

And even in the furthest, most isolated branches of PIE (language wise)

Albanian: *Babai*
Armenian: *Hayryr*

Even the distantly related PIE languages are similar in syllables, and flow.

▪︎Tocharian, spoken by Tocharians or Tartarians, originates from Proto-Indo-European peoples who settled the Tarim Basin in northwestern China.

[RahulSharma-tojk]

This happens when you don't live in india. Bhramins have lighter complexions what a load of crap. I have known tons of bhramins with darker complexions .

[michaelmallal]

May you be blessed with many wives, elephants and rice fields like a maharaja.

[zervzerv]

Can you do a video on the "sea peoples" that invaded ancient Egypt?