Jaydeepsinh Rathod
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Are Haryana Jats the closest living descendents of our Vedic forefathers ?
In part one of a review of a paper on Northwest Indian groups, the author sets out its findings that the Ror have strong steppe affinity and may proxy for…
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The Fair-Skinned Sintashta folks did not spread Indo-Aryan languages in India
Introducing a long article in progress, the author argues that recent archaeology, notably the westward migration of Indicine cattle, can build a comprehensive case for an Out of India origin,…
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The Jats and Indo-Aryan expansion in South Asia
The author argues that the high steppe ancestry of Haryanvi and western UP Jats reflects their location in the Vedic Kuru heartland, quoting Michael Witzel, and not later Indo-Scythian migration,…
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The Clearly Evident Out of India Migration from Ancient DNA
The author argues that Indian media have ignored what the new ancient DNA papers show about a migration of Harappans into eastern Iran and Central Asia, and disputes Tony Joseph’s…
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Iran_N/CHG Ancestry and the Genetic Origins of the Proto-Indo-Europeans
The author responds to Razib Khan, arguing that although the Aryan migration model may lack textual support, the steppe theory is far stronger than an Out of India origin for…
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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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The Balto-Slavic & Indo-Iranian Connection
Reviewing a paper on Northwest Indian populations, the author argues that high steppe ancestry among Rors and Jats puts the source of Indo-Aryan ancestry in Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh,…
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The Origins of the Neolithic in the Indian subcontinent
The author argues that the Rakhigarhi and Genomic Formation papers show Iranian-related ancestry in the Indus civilisation separated before Iranian farming began, so farming reached South Asia without a large…
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A Tentative OUT OF INDIA Model To Explain The Origin & Spread Of INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES
A long draft model arguing that Indo-European languages spread outwards from South-Central Asia, setting recent ancient-DNA studies alongside linguistic evidence such as Johanna Nichols’s work and archaeology, and warning it…
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Can Linguistics prove AMT & reject OIT ?
The author challenges the claim that linguistics makes India impossible as an Indo-European homeland, saying supporters of the Aryan Migration Theory rarely explain why the evidence is incontrovertible, and works…
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The Evidence for Out Of India – Part I
In part one of a planned series, the author sets out evidence that Indo-European languages migrated out of India, starting from the Yamnaya complex and arguing that the Maykop culture,…
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The Pulwama attack and its Aftermath
A reader-style account of the February 2019 Pulwama attack and the Indian airstrike on Balakot, the downed MiG-21 and pilot’s release, and the political pressures behind them. It also links…
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Hinduism in Afghanistan
The author argues against the claim that there was no Hindu Afghanistan: evidence of Hinduism is overwhelming, beginning in Indo-Greek times around 180 BCE with Indian iconography on coins found…
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Who brought the Zebu in the Near East ?
Discussing a Science paper on 67 ancient Near Eastern cattle genomes, the author says it confirms widespread zebu admixture from the Indus Valley from about 2000 BCE, likely male-driven and…
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The Emergence of Chariot driven Warrior Aristocracy of the Bronze Age
An essay on the emergence of chariot-driven warrior aristocracy in the Bronze Age, with images of Indus horse figurines, Egyptian, Mycenaean and Hittite chariots and the Sanauli chariot; though most…
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Agriculture and the Indo-Europeans – Steppe and South Asia
The author argues that Proto-Indo-Europeans were farmers rather than pastoralists, citing the substantial agricultural vocabulary Indo-Iranians share with other Indo-European branches and treating the older belief that they lacked it…
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Who was Sandrocottus ?
The author argues there are no solid grounds for identifying the Greek accounts’ Sandrocottus with Chandragupta Maurya, an identification that anchors ancient Indian chronology, and that the evidence favours Chandragupta…
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The Unravelling of the AMT
The author argues that the textual evidence of the Rigveda, centred on Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh, gives no support to an extra-Indian Aryan homeland. He challenges Vagheesh Narasimhan’s…
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The Era of the Kushans
The author argues, from a range of evidence including R. C. Majumdar’s earlier doubts, that the Kanishka Era began around 233 CE rather than the currently accepted 127 CE, challenging…
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Monkey and the Indo-Europeans
Starting from Gamkrelidze and Ivanov’s claim that Proto-Indo-Europeans knew the monkey, the author argues their arguments better support an Indian homeland, and that the word may have entered Indo-European from…
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Monkeys and the Indo-Europeans – Revised & Enlarged
A revised and enlarged post on monkeys and the Indo-Europeans, prompted by a reader’s comment; nearly all of the text, which appears to be in Devanagari, is lost in conversion,…
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The Global Influences and Achievements of Indian Civilization
Responding to Razib’s question about achievements a Hindu could be proud of, the author lists 58 Indian contributions and influences, from the Indus civilisation, zebu cattle and Hindu-Arabic numerals to…
