which the indigenous people, heirs of the craft traditions of the Harappan cultrue, could provide. Kulke argues that the Aryans did not want to relinquish their dominance, which was based on their military skills and relatively tight-knit social organization. They did not want to share their dominance with the dasus and dasyus and they kept them out by accepting them only as a low-status social category as sudras. The latter were part of a society dominatde by Aryans, but prevented from access to social and political power