Re: [tied] PIE homeland in northwest India?

> What support is there for a theory that I have come across, that the
> Indo-Europeans came from northwest India? The immediate scenario is
> that a bad drought in northwest India caused migrations, and invasion
> and immigration pressure on the remaining fertile land in

This has been widely discussed, and by far the consensus is that such a
scenarios does not explain the linguistic evidence. For example, there
would have had to be several waves of emigration, not just one, because of
links that Indo-Iranian has to some IE languages and not others.

Indian scholars link the theory, and wish it to be true, but it does fly -
in my opinion absurdly - against the evidence.

Peter