F. E. Pargiter

"The Aryans began at Allahabad, conquered and spread out northwest, west and south, and had by YayAti’s time occupied precisely the region known as MadhyadeSa… They expanded afterwards into the Punjab …"

"Indian tradition knows nothing of any Aila or Aryan invasion of India from Afghanistan, nor of any gradual advance from thence eastwards."

"The bulk of the Rigveda was composed in the great development of Brahmanism that arose under the succesors of king Bharata who reigned in the upper Ganges-Jumna doab and plain;"

"One branch, headed by Uśīnara established several kingdoms on the eastern border of the Punjab his famous son Śivi originated the Śivis in Śivapura, and extending his conquests westwards occupying the…"

"Indian tradition distinctly asserts that there was an Aila outflow of the Druhyus through the northwest into the countries beyond where they founded various kingdoms."

"The next Druhyu king Gandhāra retired to the northwest and gave his name to the Gandhāra country."

"Tradition… makes the earliest connexion of the Veda to be with the eastern region and not with the Punjab."

"The Druhyus occupied the Punjab, and Mandhātṛ of Ayodhya had a long war with the Druhyu king Aruddha or Aṅgāra and killed him" ."