caste
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Long long with caste be a bar? Perhaps more than three centuries!
Razib Khan says genetic data surprised him: jati groups are sharply distinct, endogamy is deep and ancient, and steppe ancestry roughly correlates with caste status, so he argues caste may…
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Caste – bred to the bone!
Razib Khan follows a podcast on caste, arguing from genetics that jati is a strong reality, with endogamy across southern Asia for 1,500 years, and contrasting China’s civilisational continuity, where…
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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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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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Dalit in Silicon Valley
Razib Khan responds to the New York Times report on caste in Silicon Valley, arguing from population numbers and genotype samples that Dalits are too few among Indian Americans for…
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The Jat Gene!
Razib Khan plots Jat samples on PCA and admixture charts, finding them at the ANI end of the cline and distinct from Pashtuns and especially Baloch, who show more West…
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American caste! (?)
Razib Khan criticises a New York Times Magazine extract that compares American racial hierarchy to Indian caste and Nazi Germany, arguing the author lacks knowledge of India and citing intermarriage…
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Maharashtra genetics
A quoted abstract of a study of West Maharashtra castes and tribes finding Deshastha Brahmins carry more Iranian and steppe ancestry than Kunbi Marathas, and tribal groups very high AASI,…
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The memes reflected in our genes
Razib Khan asks how Brahmins can show higher steppe ancestry yet not form a single founding lineage, answering that Indian social ecology and Brahmin roles spread and mixed steppe ancestry,…
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Brahmins were made in India, not the steppe
Razib Khan reads Narasimhan et al.’s Y-chromosome data to argue that Brahmin lineages, from UP, Punjab and elsewhere, mix steppe R1a with many local lineages, so Brahmins were formed in…
