Ancient world #history series episode in #historicals contains: br The Arya were central #Asian Steppe pastoralists who arrived in India between roughly 2000 BCE and #1500BCE, and brought #Indo-European languages to the subcontinent. br br The theory of the Aryan #invasion (or migration) was first put forward by Western scholars during the colonial age. It maintained that a race of European or Central Asian “Aryans” swept into the subcontinent displacing the indigenous #IndusValleyCivilization .