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that Indra, with great military prowess, poured down upon Bhārata from Iran in the later part of the second millennium B. C., the past memory of which preserved in Rgveda, Munshi's theory, thus, does not stand to archaeological tests, and as shown previously, to linguistic tests. It rather proves the theory that war-mongering Indra people invaded Bhārata from Iran which is attested by archaeology and also by Rgveda.
The above archaeological account reveals that the Āryan culture was the resultant of the social development of the
.. pastoral hunter-fishers. The tribal warfare and Conclusion
multiplication of weapons, patriarchal households, greater mobility and intensified military activities would be the consequences of the economy of the everexpanding tribal people. Men were exalted over women for the material growth and prosperity or the ever-moving, ambitious and adventurous tribal society and for wielding metallic and non-metallic weapons in wars against their opposing adversaries. These pastoral, warlike and patriarchal societies of the Wiros or the Aryans with new interests, material and social, began their historic migrations from their orginal habitat Circa 2500 B. C.
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S. Piggot; Op. Cit; Pages 57-63. 5. B. B. Lal; Ancient India No. 9; 1953; Page 90. 6. S. Piggot; Op. cit.; Pages 73, 84, 111, 121.
B. B. Lal; Excavation at Hastinapur and other Explorations; Anci
ent India No. 10-11; Pages 147, 150. 8. Donald A. Mackenzie; Myths of Crete and Pre-Hellenic Europe;
1917; Page 124. 9. N. G. L. Hammond; Op. cit.; Pages 39, 40, 74.
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