Whichever way you look at it, by around 2000 BCE, some of the most important elements that make up India’s population as it is today were in place: the descendants of the Out of Africa migrants, the Zagros agriculturists, the Austroasiatic-language speakers and the Tibeto-Burman-language speakers. The wheels of history were turning, making a unique culture out of many different traditions, practices and belief systems. But there was one component yet missing: those who called themselves ‘Aryans’.
