"It is difficult to see what is particularly non-Aryan about the Indus Valley civilization."
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Colin Renfrew, Archaeology and Language, pp 188 ff. also quoted in The Indo-Aryan Controversy: Evidence and Inference in Indian History ed. Bryant E., L Patton
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