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2013.
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| Summary/Abstract |
The scholarly search for the origin of the people of this region often falls victim to the complex religious history of the area. If we leave aside the question of the religions of the people it may be possible to determine which 'peoples' at an early age inhabited the region up until recently called 'The Princely State of Jammu and Kashmir'. At 3,500 years ago (at 1,500 BPE - 'before the Present Era') the Indo- Aryans had already entered the Ganges plain and presumably there were some other elements of migrations from Central Asia which reached the more northerly areas of India called Kashmir. Moreover, it is possible some 'aboriginal' groups from Rajasthan and Gujarat had penetrated Kashmir as well as other parts of the sub-continent. Also some 'Dravidian' speakers (arriving in the sub-continent circa. 2,500 BPE) could have come to Kashmir.
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