The ASI and Deccan College Pune have worked together over the past two years to complete the third phase of excavations at Rakhigarhi, led by ASI joint director Sanjay Kumar Manjul and Deccan College Pune assistant professor Prabhodh Shirwalkar.
Until the millennium year 2000, there had been many voices doubting or plainly rejecting the Aryan Invasion Theory, and contributing many little arguments from linguistics or archaeology, all indirect evidence, but a clear alternative was lacking.