"The Aryan invasion of India is recorded in no written document and it cannot yet be traced archaeologically but it is nevertheless established as a historical fact on the basis of comparative philology."

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Burrow, T., 1975: “The early Aryans”, in Basham A., ed.: A Cultural History of India, Oxford: OUP. page 21. Quoted in Elst, Koenraad (2018). Still no trace of an Aryan invasion: A collection on Indo-European origins.