January 2018
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Caste in Punjab
Razib Khan links a post on genetic variation in the Lahore sample of the 1000 Genomes project, admitting he knows little about caste in Pakistani Punjab.
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Brown for Life
X.T.M says Nikki Haley cannot express an opinion without being reminded she is ‘Nimrata’, adding it may be even more offensive if the account concerned is not itself desi.
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Rex fuit Elizabeth, nunc est regina Iacobus
A link to Bilawal Bhutto’s first interview with the Indian media, which the poster thinks he did quite well in, with a wry remark about his coat.
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Review: The Holocaust, A New History
The reviewer praises Laurence Rees’s readable account of the Holocaust from post-war Germany onward, which shows a gradual, uneven escalation with no single directive, and agrees with its case that…
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South Asian genetic relationships
At my other blog. Some charts.
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Notes on South Asian genetics, 2018
Prompted by a claim of genetic purity among Gaud Saraswat Brahmins, the author argues South Indian Brahmins show gene flow from local populations, and surveys what Harappa-project and other data…
