"We find it extraordinarily difficult to make a case for expansions from this northern region to northern India . . . where we would presume Indo-Aryans had settled by the mid-second millennium BCE."
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JP Mallory. 1998. "A European Perspective on Indo-Europeans in Asia." In The Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Peoples of Eastern and Central Asia (1:175-201). Ed. Mair. Washington D.C.: Insti- tute for die Study of Man. in Bryant, E. F. (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture : the Indo-Aryan migration debate. Oxford University Press. chapter 10
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