Bengalis
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23andMe says Bangladeshis are more Bengali than West Bengalis!
Razib Khan notes that 23andMe’s updated panel gives Bangladeshis more ‘Bengali’ ancestry than West Bengalis, because it treats East Asian-enriched ancestry as diagnostic, which would make even Tagore’s profile look…
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Most of the “East Asian” in East Bengalis is not from the Munda
A further data analysis suggests most of the East Asian ancestry in East Bengalis does not come from Munda sources; the author flags an unexplained South Chinese signal in Bangladeshis…
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South Asian PCA
From his own data analysis, the author finds that Bengalis sit on the Khasi and Tibeto-Burman cline rather than the Munda cline, with Bangladeshis appearing as the inverse of the…
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A Clarion Call for Change of Culture of Politics in West Bengal
Reports a protest by Bengalis and other Indians at the Gandhi statue in Parliament Square on 19 June 2019 against alleged political violence in West Bengal, urging the Indian government…
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On ethnicity
The author, from a Bangladeshi Muslim family in the US, describes his parents’ 1980s social circle as mostly South Asian, mixing Bangladeshis, Indian Bengalis and other clusters across ethnolinguistic lines,…
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Bangladeshis are very East Asian, Sri Lankan Tamils are not quite as structured
Razib Khan argues that Bengalis are substantially East Asian in ancestry, with little West Asian admixture even among Bengali Muslims, and that Sri Lankan Tamils are less genetically structured than…
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Bhadralok are made not born
Razib Khan plots two West Bengali samples, a Kayastha and a Brahmin, and finds the Kayastha resembles Bangladeshi samples with less East Asian ancestry, which supports the view that Kayasthas…
