Aryan

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Aryan relating to or denoting a people speaking an Indo-European language who invaded northern India in the 2nd millennium bc; (in Nazi ideology) relating to or denoting people of Caucasian race not of Jewish descent. The idea that there was an ‘Aryan’ race corresponding to the parent Indo-European language was proposed by certain 19th-century writers, and was taken up by Hitler and other proponents of racist ideology, but it has been generally rejected by scholars.

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