being enslavement to forced labour, however in some cases of serious offenses death penalty was
applied.
Indo Aryans People
Indo-Aryan peoples are a diverse collection of Indo-European peoples speaking Indo-Aryan languages in
the Indian subcontinent. Historically, Aryans were the Indo-Iranian
speaking pastoralists who migrated from Central Asia into South Asia and introduced the Proto-Indo-
Aryan language.[5][6][7][8][9] Today, the Indo-Aryan language speakers are found across the modern-day
regions of Bangladesh, southern-Nepal, eastern-Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Maldives and northern-India.[10]
History
Proto-Indo-Iranians
Main articles: Indo-Iranians, Proto-Indo-Europeans, Aryan, Indo-European migrations, and Indo-Aryan
migrations
Further information: Genetics and archaeogenetics of South Asia and Peopling of India
Archaeological cultures associated with Indo-Iranian
migrations (after EIEC). The Andronovo, BMAC and Yaz cultures have often been associated with Indo-
Iranian migrations. The GGC, Cemetery H, Copper Hoard, OCP, and PGW cultures are candidates for
cultures associated with Indo-Aryan migrations.
The introduction of the Indo-Aryan languages in the Indian subcontinent was the result of a migration of
Indo-Aryan people from Central Asia into the northern Indian subcontinent (modern-
day Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka). These migrations started approximately
1,800 BCE, after the invention of the war chariot, and also brought Indo-Aryan languages into
the Levant and possibly Inner Asia.[11] Another group of the Indo-Aryans migrated further westward and
founded the Mitanni kingdom in northern Syria;[12] (c. 1500–1300 BC) the other group were the Vedic
people.[13] Christopher I. Beckwith suggests that the Wusun, an Indo-European Caucasian people
of Inner Asia in antiquity, were also of Indo-Aryan origin.[14]
The Proto-Indo-Iranians, from which the Indo-Aryans developed, are identified with the Sintashta
culture (2100–1800 BCE),[15][16] and the Andronovo culture,[11] which flourished ca. 1800–1400 BCE in the
steppes around the Aral Sea, present-day Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. The Proto-Indo-
Aryan split off around 1800–1600 BCE from the Iranians,[17] moved south through the Bactria-Margiana
Culture, south of the Andronovo culture, borrowing some of their distinctive religious beliefs and
practices from the BMAC, and then migrated further south into the Levant and north-western