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The collapse of IVC is linked to many natural disasters. However the only theory that I have read about the collapse related to the existence of contemporary environment with regard to politico-religious reasons is in a paper published From Meluhha To Pakistan: The Embodiment Of A Civilization - OpEd Eurasia Review.
Robert Kaplan also says that the IVC politically remained united with India only during the times of Mauryan, Islamic and British rule of sub-continent and for the remaining thousands of years was a separate political entity. The genetic studies confirm this fact that the large majority of people of Pakistan are made up of different genetic formats compared to Indians. The linkages that we see these days with India emerged only during the recent times under Muslim and British rule and history corrected itself in 1947.
The IVC collapsed due to a variety of reasons, some of which relate to environmental changes. Of course political issues may have existed there as well. The fact remains that we are not entirely certain of what caused the IVC to collapse, we have some data, but a lot of research is still needed on the IVC. A hell lot of data we have regarding the IVC comes from the Aryans themselves. Once they developed a script for Sanskrit, they recorded the lifestyle of the people of the Indus & the Aryans were extremely different from the Harappans. Whatever remained of the Indus Valley Civilization was destroyed during & after the arrival of the Indo-Aryan people.
The IVC operated as a separate political entity from the rest of India, that is true. However, you must note that the rest of the Sub-Continent wasn't united at that time either besides during the short reign of Ashoka the Great, & perhaps some others. Yes, Pakistani ethnicities are distinct from Indian ethnicities. That should be obvious to everyone, India is geographically larger than Pakistan & is home to many different ethnicities some of which have nothing to do with each other racially as well.
The people who fought against the Greeks were the original people of this land and not Aryans. These people were monotheists before the emergence of Abrahamic religions. They wrote the Rig Veda and the fact that the earliest Vedic religious concept evolved around monotheism is a testament to this actuality. The earliest monotheistic format of Vedic religion was gradually diluted to polytheism and we see the subsequent emergence of current format of Hinduism as the teachings spread to Gangetic plains. However, there were many Hindus who even during the contemporary era professed monotheism like the Maharishi Dayananda and Sikhism also follow monotheistic format even now. These people followed Buddhism as well and later became Muslims, the religion which they follow now.
Wrong, the people who fought against the Greeks were the Aryans themselves. The Harappans were finished, from there on out when someone referred to the people of the Indus; they referred to Indo-Aryan tribes. Historical evidence backs this point, & even the Greeks were aware of it. As I stated earlier, Alexander the Great wanted the Greeks to mix up with the Indo-European tribes in Persia & the northern Sub-Continent. His plans however failed. The Median people in Iran referred to themselves as Aryans too, only the Greeks called them Medians. The Medians knew off Indo-Aryan tribes in the Indus region & used to proudly boast of their relation to them. King Cyrus the Great of Persia is another example, he wanted to unite the Indo-Iranian Aryans under his rule & thus he ended up conquering Balochistan & what is today known as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. There are way too many proofs in existence to confirm the presence of Indo-Aryans in the Sub-Continent, & the history, cultures, & languages of our lands were shaped by them.
Some segments of the Vedic people were monotheists, but not all of them. As I said earlier, refer to the Aryan & Greek Pantheon & see the similarities with your own eyes. Those similarities existed long before Alexander's arrival & remind us of the link between Indo-European tribes that migrated from Andronovo. Buddhism was spread primarily during Asoka the Great's time, he turned his back on Vedism, & after the collapse of his empire, the Indo-Aryan people never recovered & the Sub-Continent slipped in to a short phase of its own dark ages. Your claim that the Indo-Aryans weren't a unique people even though their language, religion, genes, & culture prove otherwise is proof that you aren't aware of the history of your land. You may even want to read about ancient Persians & how similar they were to Indo-Aryans before they ended up getting influenced by Semitic civilizations & before the Indo-Aryans got influenced by the IVC.