Vedic Chronology vs. the Aryan Immigration Theory

Abstract

The chronology of the Vedas is an important matter in itself, but also happens to be a decisive consideration in the Āryan Immigration debate. Its presently most touted argument, geneticist David Reich's discovery of an influx into India between -2000 and -1500, hinges on Max Müller's low chronology of the Ṛg-Veda. But recent archaeological findings come to confirm the established astronomical pointers to a high chronology, well before -2000. Reich's immigrants came too late for bringing Sanskrit into India: is was already there.