Now, it is almost clear, that Aryan does not men to be a race. Aryans were the people who spoke a common language and shared a common home and migrated to various parts of the world, one of them was India.
Aryan refers to a group of Indo Europeans who moved to various parts of world including India.
Many scholars tried to prove that Aryans were not migrants but the indigenous people of India and who regarded Sapta Sindhu as their home. But the theory has been almost discarded on the basis of the disparities between the Harappan and Vedic civilization. If they were indigenous people then , there would not been so much disparity because the cradle of both civilizations was almost same.
The original home of Aryans have been figured out by different scholars.
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Max Muller – Central Asia
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Swami Dayanand Saraswati – Tibet
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Mayor – Pamir's
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Hurz Feld – Turkistan
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J C Rod – Bactria
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Bal Gangadhar Tilak – Polar Regions
However, the consensus of the opinions of the scholars say that the Aryans were from central Asia.
The meaning of the Sanskrit word ārya is "Noble, Respectable and Honorable".