The image of Indo-Aryans as nomadic, conquering warriors, driving chariots, may have been a vision that Europeans had, and continue to have, of their own assumed “noble” past.

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

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