From: Gerry Reinhart-Waller
Message: 1904
Date: 2000-03-20
>Gerry: So you're saying the Aryan invasion was from the south and
> > Gerry:
> > 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 aGerry: Again, I am without access to any library except the Internet.
> 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 ?