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The Aryans, however, did not enter into a cultural vacuum.  Cultural patterns
nurtured in the Indus cities survived long after the cities themselves were
gone.  Preserved in continuing village cultures, carried southward and into
the Ganges valley by late extensions of the Indus civilizations, maintained
in the traitions of a conquered non-Aryan population, they gradually merged
with Aryan culture in a great and growing synthesis. p. 8