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See Mergar/Mehrghar for Harappan civilization
compare Oxus Civilization and china

In India there are still Malay language groups! These must either be the true indigenous or the very first wave of wailers and sailors 8000-5000 BC

Strong trade links between Bhuddist India and Greco-Roman Egypt: Berenike dwarfed the terrestrial Silk Road in economic importance and helped sustain the Roman Empire for centuries https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/hidden-ancient-egyptian-port-reveals-180984485/ Berenike founded by Pharaoh Ptolemy II 275 B.C. after his mother.

Now Roman traders learned to ride monsoon currents from the Horn of Africa directly across the Indian Ocean. The waters flow northeast in summer before reversing each winter

beads from Thailand or Vietnam and even Java. And “just tons” of Indian material including gems and pearls, woven mats and baskets, as well as rice and a jar containing more than 16 pounds of peppercorns

the trade route didn’t end at Muziris but would have continued across land and sea to India’s east coast and on to China. From his perspective, it was Muziris, not Berenike, that formed the “junction between East and West,” the central hub that connected the known world.

In the early first century A.D., before trade reached its peak, the Greek geographer Strabo described eastbound fleets of more than 100 merchant ships. the Roman tax revenues from Indian Ocean trade may have generated 10% to one-third of the empire’s total income.

Still it may have been the Indians, not the Romans, who instigated and drove Indian Ocean trade. Buddha and Sanscrit inscription in Berenike.

𓊪 𓃹 𓈖 𓏏 Punt trade routes beyond the red sea 𓊪 𓃹 𓈖 𓏏 •Paranat <> Berenice <> pronto <> भारत Bhārata 𓃹 𓈖 𓏏 Sind > India 𓊪 𓃹 𓈖 𓏏 •Parsinat <> Persian pheasant 𓊪 𓃹 𓈖 𓏏 •Paraneptun 𓋞 ≈ Paradies ( 𓃹 𓈖 𓃀 = ארנב Arneb אַרְנָב arnáv ) 𓊪 𓃹 𓏏 𓈖 Pakistan ? 𓃹 𓏏 𓊪 Ethiopia ?