"Their oldest literature supplies no certain indication that they still retained the recollection of their former home; and we may reasonably conclude therefore that the invasion which brought them into India took place at a date considerably earlier."
— E. J. Rapson

January 1, 1970

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E.J. Rapson, "Peoples and Languages", The Cambridge History of India, edited by E.J . Rapson, 1922, p. 43. in The Problem of Aryan Origins by K.D. Sethna, Aditya Prakashan, New Delhi, 1992.