''The Problem of Aryan Origins'' is a book by

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. The first edition was published in 1980. A second enlarged version (with five supplements) was published in 1992. (Delhi: Aditya Prakashan, 1992.) The book questions the validity of the

Aryan Invasion Theory The Indo-Aryan migrations were the migrations into the Indian subcontinent of Indo-Aryan peoples, an ethnolinguistic group that spoke Indo-Aryan languages, the predominant languages of today's North India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lank ...

. The first supplement contains a criticism of the first edition of the book and Sethna's reply. The fifth supplement is a detailed survey in over 200 pages of

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's study ''"The Coming of the Aryans to Iran and India and the Cultural and Ethnic Identity of the Dasas".'' The book had a considerable influence on later writers{{Like whom?, date=October 2020 on this subject. A particularity of the book is that Sethna often refers to

Sri Aurobindo Sri Aurobindo (born Aurobindo Ghose; 15 August 1872 – 5 December 1950) was an Indian philosopher, yogi, maharishi, poet, and Indian nationalist. He was also a journalist, editing newspapers such as ''Vande Mataram''. He joined the ...

's interpretation of the

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Problem of Aryan Origins Indigenous Aryanism