← Previous revisionRevision as of 20:06, 29 October 2026 Line 5: Line 5: {{Indo-European topics}} {{Indo-European topics}} The earliest '''[[Indo-Aryan peoples|Indo-Aryan]] migration to Assam''' is estimated to have occurred between the 2nd century BCE and 1st century CE"We are unsure about the exact time when [Indo-Aryan']s earliest migrations into northeastern India began (Choudhury 1959, pp. 96–111), but these migratory waves likely occurred between the second century BCE and the first century CE (Rosati 2016)"{{harv|Rosati|2017|p=2}}—not earlier than 500 BCE. The earliest epigraphic record suggests that the [[Indo-Aryan migration]] began latest by the middle of the 4th century CE."Unfortunately, there is no evidence sustaining the historicity of this myth, nor identifying the period when the Indo-Aryans arrived in Assam; according to the epigraphic records, the middle of the fourth century CE can be determined as the latest historical term for the Indo-Aryan migrations into Assam, being the term "when political power shifted from mytho-historical Naraka-Bhauma dynasty to Pusyavarman, the first historical king of" Kamarupa (Rosati 2016)."{{harv|Rosati|2017|pp=6–7}} They came from the [[Gangetic Plains]] into a region already inhabited by people who spoke [[Austroasiatic]] and [[Tibeto-Burman]] languages."The first group of migrants to settle in this part of the country is perhaps the Austro-Asiatic language speaking people who came here from South-East Asia a few millennia before Christ. The second group of migrants came to Assam from the north, north-east and east. They are mostly the Tibeto-Burman language speaking people. From about the fifth century before Christ, there started a trickle of migration of the people speaking Indo-Aryan language from the Gangetic plain." {{harv|Taher|2001|p=12}}"[That Assamese has an Austroasiatic substratum] is consistent with the general assumption that the lower Brahmaputra drainage was originally Austroasiatic speaking. It also implies the existence of a substantial Austroasiatic speaking population till the time of spread of Aryan culture into Assam, i.e. it implies that up until the 4th-5th centuries CE and probably much later Tibeto-Burman languages had not completely supplanted Austroasiatic languages." {{harvcol|DeLancey|2012|p=13}} The earliest '''[[Indo-Aryan migration]] to Assam''' is estimated to have occurred between the 2nd century BCE and 1st century CE"We are unsure about the exact time when [Indo-Aryan']s earliest migrations into northeastern India began (Choudhury 1959, pp. 96–111), but these migratory waves likely occurred between the second century BCE and the first century CE (Rosati 2016)"{{harv|Rosati|2017|p=2}}—not earlier than 500 BCE. The earliest epigraphic record suggests that the [[Indo-Aryan peoples|Indo-Aryan]] migration began latest by the middle of the 4th century CE."Unfortunately, there is no evidence sustaining the historicity of this myth, nor identifying the period when the Indo-Aryans arrived in Assam; according to the epigraphic records, the middle of the fourth century CE can be determined as the latest historical term for the Indo-Aryan migrations into Assam, being the term "when political power shifted from mytho-historical Naraka-Bhauma dynasty to Pusyavarman, the first historical king of" Kamarupa (Rosati 2016)."{{harv|Rosati|2017|pp=6–7}} They came from the [[Gangetic Plains]] into a region already inhabited by people who spoke [[Austroasiatic]] and [[Tibeto-Burman]] languages."The first group of migrants to settle in this part of the country is perhaps the Austro-Asiatic language speaking people who came here from South-East Asia a few millennia before Christ. The second group of migrants came to Assam from the north, north-east and east. They are mostly the Tibeto-Burman language speaking people. From about the fifth century before Christ, there started a trickle of migration of the people speaking Indo-Aryan language from the Gangetic plain." {{harv|Taher|2001|p=12}}"[That Assamese has an Austroasiatic substratum] is consistent with the general assumption that the lower Brahmaputra drainage was originally Austroasiatic speaking. It also implies the existence of a substantial Austroasiatic speaking population till the time of spread of Aryan culture into Assam, i.e. it implies that up until the 4th-5th centuries CE and probably much later Tibeto-Burman languages had not completely supplanted Austroasiatic languages." {{harvcol|DeLancey|2012|p=13}} ==Pre-Indo-Aryan Assam== ==Pre-Indo-Aryan Assam==