Why does Aryan migration theory offend Indians ?

• Lack of understanding of what the theory is about.
• Widespread misconception that Sanskrit is the mother of all languages. Interestingly this belief was propagated by the colonials who get blamed for concocting this theory.
• Lack of awareness about the existence of different language families in Indian subcontinent.
• They Fear that the theory might end up dividing north and south.
• A long standing belief that — all this is European propaganda. The theory is seen as a part of British divide and rule
• Fear of people losing faith in Hindu scriptures. The very fact that Vedas were composed by people whose ancestors came from elsewhere is unthinkable for some people.
• Misconception that the term “Arya” did not denote a race.
• Recent propaganda by indologist that genetics disproved the theory.

Four different major human migrations into Indian subcontinent happened in the past.

Out of Africa migrations :

The recent African origin paradigm suggests that the anatomically modern humans outside of Africa descend from a population of Homo sapiens migrating from East Africa roughly 70–50,000 years ago and spreading along the southern coast of Asia and to Oceania by about 50,000 years ago.

These migrations are called Out of Africa migrations or Early migrations. Geneticists refer to OA migrants…