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Caste: Prehistory to 1200: South, Central, and West Asia
The Sanskrit-speaking Aryans were nomadic pastoralists who came to the Indian subcontinent around 1500 B.C.E. from west-central Asia. They defeated the indigenous population, the Dravidians, and the societal structure of the subcontinent came to be dominated by Aryan norms. Much ...
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