On popular request โ or curiosity. Two recent studies are making the rounds:
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Kashmiris and Central Asians: Nature โ February 2025
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Sri Lankans and South Indians: Nature India โ February 2025
Iโm generally skeptical of population genetics papers, what is their point exactly? But presumably this will awaken the Commentariat, who have been quieter lately.
If nothing else, consider it intellectual cake; open to everyone, rich in speculation. As an aside the young girl featured is a Baloch.
Iโm generally skeptical of population genetics papers, what is their point exactly? But presumably this will awaken the Commentariat, who have been quieter lately.
Hopefully eventually dispel myths or propaganda about differences or similarities
e.g.from the Sri Lanka Paper
Ancient chronicles and linguistic traditions suggest that the Sinhalese migrated from northern India around 500 BCE โ a view supported by the Indo-European origins of the Sinhala language.
These are propaganda used by both Sinhalese and SL Tamils to claim that the two peoples are racially different.
The Ancient Chronicles claim the “Sinhalese” came from Kalinga and mixed with existing populations the Raksa and Naga etc.
Grammatical Sinhalese is Indo Aryan as it is derived from Pali
In reality the peoples are the same, but cultural differences.
Israel and Palestinians
Israel prohibits DNA testing. It would show that the AshkeNazi Jews are mainly European. Palestinians and Jews who remained in Palestine would be shown to be similar genetic origins.
That just does not fit the Genocidal Zionist Narrative
@sbarrkum
great point. there’s so much fanciful pseudo-history that is now falsifiable. in spite of my own regionalist biases, it was a bit reductionist in my mind when dravidian and indo-aryan populations were posited as discrete racial groups. particulary as i know the fault-line regions first-hand and there was little evidence of something so salient. that said, the discovery that genetic distance between jatis is fairly profound even when they are co-located is an inconvenient truth as well. so genetics has given us the ability to make some strong historical inferences or at least illuminate some obscured areas.
the discovery that genetic distance between jatis is fairly profound even when they are co-located is an inconvenient truth as well. so genetics has given us the ability to make some strong historical inferences or at least illuminate some obscured areas.
Exactly