Q: 11 (IAS/1999)
question_subject:
History
question_exam:
IAS
stats:
0,90,247,88,93,68,88
keywords:
{'ethnic group': [0, 1, 0, 0], 'superior race': [0, 1, 0, 0], 'speech group': [0, 1, 0, 0], 'nomadic people': [0, 1, 0, 0], 'term': [28, 1, 9, 27], 'denotes': [1, 1, 2, 3]}
The term 'Aryan' denotes a speech group. Therefore, the correct answer is option 3. It refers to the Indo-European language family, which includes many languages spoken in Europe, Iran, and northern India, among other places. It has been used to describe people who speak or are descended from speakers of these languages, but it is not an ethnic group or a superior race.