>
> Then are you saying that since the Indus civilization wasn't Aryan but
> was Burushaski an invasion actually took place? And where did the
> Burushaski march in from? Or were they indiginous to north of the
Indus
> Valley? Were they hill people?
>
no, they were indigenous to south Indus valley,from the greater centers
of tht Indus civilisation. They were forced to the North because of
aryan encroachment in their country. If you don't have a copy of
Bernard Sergent's book in your library, I will loan it again from mine
and explain more in detail the arguments.
I think a good point to test this theory would be searching for a
burushaski substrate in Indo-aryan that does not exist in iranian.
Toponymy of course can be also useful.
However we lack of historical records on brusha people. The earliest I
know id the tibetan record of the bru-zha people (see Toung Bao, 1912,
B. Laufer). He gives a little text in the 'bru-zha language' -- it
looks like gibberish rather than burushaski so I think it is a
invention by tibetan clerks (they were fond of such things, to make
their books look 'mysterious' an all).
Are there records of them in Iranian chronicles ?
Guillaume