July 2020
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What do we call the Ancient Ancestral North Indians?
Razib Khan agrees with commenters that ‘eastern Iranian farmers’ is a misleading label for the main ancestry of Indus Valley people, since the lineage split before farming, about 10,000 to…
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The Brahui, total genetic replacement?
Razib Khan argues from a paper on the Dravidian-speaking Brahui that they are genetically indistinguishable from the Baloch, so either their language is a retention after major population replacement or…
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The myth of Brahmin supremacy!
Razib Khan argues that ‘Brahmin privilege’ and ‘Brahmin supremacy’ are imported analogues of ‘white privilege’ and ‘white supremacy’, and disputes a quoted claim that varna literally means colour and that…
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The East Asian ancestry in Bengalis is probably not Munda
Razib Khan revises his earlier view that Bengalis’ East Asian ancestry is mostly Munda, arguing that genome-wide and haplogroup data point to a Tibeto-Burman donor, and says he now leans…
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Indian Matchmaking
Razib Khan, on the Indian Matchmaking show, says he takes such shows as anthropology rather than how the world should be, and that older age has softened his opposition to…
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Hindu atheist vs. Secular Jihadists
Razib Khan reacts to a podcast between Jarin Jove and the Secular Jihadist hosts, finding Jove’s arguments on Hindu nationalism sophistic and close to American social justice reasoning, and warning…
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Chandraseniya Kayastha Prabhu are very similar to Maharashtra Brahmins
Razib Khan uses PCA plots from the South Asian Genotype Project to show that Chandraseniya Kayastha Prabhu samples sit very close to Maharashtra Brahmins, unlike the Pathare Prabhu (SKP) group,…
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits – 7/18/2020
Open thread of 18 July 2020. The host notes his chapter in Which of Us are Aryans?, warns that rude comments will be deleted, and says the site’s servers are…
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Browncast Episode 110: Kala!
In Browncast Episode 110, Razib, Mukunda and Suraj discuss being dark-skinned and South Asian: prejudice from Punjabis towards Tamils, whether ‘black Madrasi’ is insulting, Indian American attitudes to social justice,…
