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Where are the burned fortresses, the arrow heads, weapons, pieces of armor, the smashed chariots, and bodies of the invaders and defenders.

— George F. Dales

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No one has any exact knowledge of the date when the Aryans first entered the Indus Valley area; they have not yet been identified archaeologically.

“Indra and the barbarian hordes are exonerated” (Dales 1964: 43)

Where are the burned fortresses, the arrow heads, weapons, pieces of armour, the smashed chariots and bodies of the invaders and defenders?... Despite the extensive excavations at the largest Harappan sites, there is not a single bit of evidence that can be brought forth as unconditional proof of an armed conquest and the destruction on the supposed scale of the Aryan invasion.

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