"invasion"?

[Vanbakkam Vijayaraghavan]

On Thu, 12 Apr 2001 08:07:04 -0700, Swaminathan Madhuresan
<smadhuresan at YAHOO.COM> wrote:

Indologists,
>Anthropologists, claim that Indians in the North changed to Aryan languages
>when their elites imposed  by force, co-options (cf. chariots and archery).


Please refer to
 http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-shl/WA.EXE?A2=ind9409&L=indology&P=R1090
where the poster says
".  Whether the languages and cultures current in Northern South Asia
when the "Aryans" arrived were "Dravidian" is a theory that has been
suggested, but not proved, I do not think.

But I would be glad to be corrected,
Yours,
C. Minkowski, Cornell U."