caste
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Indus Valley, Sintashta, and Andamanese ancestry in select grioups
Razib Khan runs qpAdm models for South Asian populations, using Indus, Sintashta and Andamanese ancestry, finding for example that Ror have more of both than Kamboj and Uttar Pradesh Brahmins…
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Brahmin please!
Discussing a study following Swedish families over seven generations, the post notes that ancestors’ status shapes life chances long afterwards despite high mobility, which fits Gregory Clark’s work on persistent…
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The Indian caste of mind
The author says a friend active in Democratic politics asks why India has caste when other regions do not, and concludes from it that Hinduism is a messed-up religion, while…
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American Caste (b)
The author argues that America faces a national crisis in maths competence, citing 2018 PISA scores in which only 8 per cent of US students reached Level 5, against far…
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Some admixture coefficients for South Asian Genotype Project members
Razib Khan runs qpAdm on South Asian Genotype Project members, giving each individual’s Indus Periphery, steppe and Andamanese hunter-gatherer shares in a table, and warns that individuals vary within populations.
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{{{Brahmins}}} do not descend from a common group
Razib Khan notes that Vagheesh Narasimhan could not model Brahmins as a single descent group, though South Indian and Bengali Brahmins are shifted toward ANI-like ancestry and look like Uttar…
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Maacher Jhol!
Quotes a report on meat-eating in India, which finds only West Bengal, Assam and Kerala above 80 per cent weekly meat consumption, with a comment that Uttar Pradesh’s higher share…
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“OBC” in West Bengal a social construct?
Quotes a genetics paper on Birbhum, West Bengal, finding that Other Backward Classes individuals diverge only about 225 years from general-caste people, so the category looks more a political construct…
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Modernization leading toward confessionalization
Taking up a reader comment that Hindu nationalism stems partly from the weakening of caste, Razib Khan argues that modernisation often produces stronger confessional identities, citing Eric Kaufmann on Islamism…
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Dark Skin & Getting Married | Stand Up Comedy by Saikiran
Praising comic Saikiran’s stand-up on dark skin and marriage as a challenge to ‘Casteocracy’, the author sees a turn towards cultural authenticity in Modi’s India, though the comic must still…
