what is an aryan?
The term â Aryan â has had a history filled with controversy. The source of the English word Aryan comes from the Sanskrit word Ärya, which is the self-designation used by the Vedic Indic people who migrated into the Indian subcontinent about 1500 BCE.The Sanskrit term has a cognate in the Iranian word arya, which is also a self-designation.efore the time of the Aryan migration into the Indian subcontinent, there was a highly developed civilization in ancient India known as the Indus Valley Civilization, which was located in what is Pakistan and northwest India today, on the fertile flood plain of the Indus River and its vicinity.