Sorry, my fault; I was writing for the north Indians and the Pakistanis.
These are the mysterious set of people who came in with the Sakas (Scythians to the western world, people living outside the borders, who also lived within the Achaemenid Empire in Sogdia); their exact ethnicity is unknown. Some scholars say that they are related to the Parthians ultimately, and that their name should be rendered 'Pahlava'; there are other scholars who trace a tenuous connection to the Tamilian/South Indian dynasty that built the Rock Temples, the Pallava. These are all under dispute, and I have always been very uncertain about this tribe. The ones who came in with the Sakas were Indo-Iranian without any doubt; they were swept out of Sogdiana and Bactria, which they had occupied in their first flight from the onrushing Tocharians under their rulers, the Moon Tribe, the Kushana.
So, there is speculation that the Pallavas of Tamil Nadu might have been connected to the Saka-Pallava, but it is not proven, and most scholars specialised in south Indian history reject it.
Glasgow made me nervous; Edinburgh did not. All in all, I preferred the Highlands - Inverness, Fort St. George - to these two cities. For one thing, like mountain folk the world over, the Highlander has exquisite manners and a natural courtesy that owes nothing to schooling, and enormous, welcoming hearts for weary travellers. Bless them.
Slovenia and their version of the Alps is on my bucket list.
