"The Aryans appear in Mitanni from 1500 BC as the ruling dynasty, which means that they must have entered the country as conquerors."
— Thomas Burrow

January 1, 1970

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Burrow, T. 1955 (Reprint). The Sanskrit Language. Faber and Faber. quoted in The Homeland of Indo-European Languages and Culture: Some Thoughts by Prof. B. B. Lal, Paper presented at a seminar organized by the Indian Council for Historical Research on the same theme in Delhi on 7-9 January 2002