Despite a plea by one South Asian scholar to be “. . . hopefully somewhat free from the ghosts of the past”, the legacy of a post-Enlightenment western scholarship concerning South Asian prehistory and history has been for the arguments to be repeated so often as to become dogma.

— Jim G. Shaffer South Asian archaeology and the myth of Indo-Aryan invasions (2005)

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