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Reverse of Aryan invasion. From India , Details. While the Oxford people wrote back that they wouldn’t like to drift away from teir 150 year-old etymological moorings, Wedster’s argued that since Englishmen were not even aware of the existence of Sanskrit until about 400 years ago, the English language which is older than 400 years couldn’t have been derived from Sanskrit. This Websterian argument unwittingly reveals the exact snag. I