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West Bengal Kayasthas are heterogeneous paternally and conventional Bengalis overall
Razib Khan says West Bengal Kayasthas sit on the PCA between East Bengalis and the main India cline, and unlike Bengali Brahmins, who resemble Uttar Pradesh Brahmins, differ little from…
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Is Hindutva-pop cringe?
Razib Khan reacts to a New York Times piece on Hindutva pop, saying it seems more amateur and LARPy than insidious, and asks whether it is as cringe as American…
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The Archaeological Evidence for OIT – I
The author argues that archaeology backs the genetic case for an Out of India migration, looking at the Helmand, Halil Rud and BMAC civilisations next to the Harappan world and…
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
Open Thread for 10 November 2019; no topic set, a general space for readers to talk about whatever they like.
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South Asian human geography as a post-Aryan synthesis
Razib Khan argues that steppe ancestry is enriched in groups such as Brahmins while Indus Periphery ancestry is enriched in the west and south, and reads Dravidian-speaking peoples as products…
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{{{Brahmins}}} do not descend from a common group
Razib Khan notes that Vagheesh Narasimhan could not model Brahmins as a single descent group, though South Indian and Bengali Brahmins are shifted toward ANI-like ancestry and look like Uttar…
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Who doth speaketh the mleccha bhasha?
Answering a reader, Razib Khan argues it is plausible that Indo-European languages spread despite steppe ancestry of only 10 to 20 per cent in the Gangetic plain, citing male-mediated expansion…
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The Indo-Aryan enigma
Razib Khan weighs a piece arguing recent ancient DNA does not validate the Aryan invasion theory, noting the data show the BMAC did not impact South Asia demographically but leave…
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How to understand a people
Points to a long post on his other weblog arguing that a group should not be reduced to an agent in another civilisation’s history, and says this bears on views…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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