“There is no direct ethnic connection between the identities of different peoples of the Rigvedic period and the identities of actual different peoples living in present-day India, or indeed in the world today.”

—  Shrikant Talageri

TALAGERI 2008:363
The Rigveda and the Avesta (2008)

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