endogamy
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Why Caste Formed In India and how the heck it could have been maintained! – A Structural Model
Dr Rajorshi Datta argues that strict caste endogamy in India came from structural predisposition rather than luck, using a model of subcontinents as ‘containers’ and upstream geographic and ecological variables.…
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Parsi Nanis Are Gujarati
X.T.M reads genetic studies of the Parsis, with Iranian paternal lines and roughly half South Asian maternal lines, to argue that Parsi Gujarati comes from founding Gujarati mothers. A Facebook…
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Bollywood, Brahmins, Parsis & WASPs:
X.T.M argues that elites are reproduced by property, institutions and networks rather than blood, so intermarriage is usually a merger, not a threat, citing English aristocrats and American heiresses, Parsis,…
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Dravidian Progressivism is a Scam
Nachiketa answers X.T.M on Chennai, arguing that the city’s welfare and cleanliness cannot simply be credited to Dravidian progressivism, pointing to Tamil Nadu’s 97 percent caste endogamy rate and describing…
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The creation of Homo General Category
The author argues that the Indian American caste debate overlooks that about 85% of Indian American Hindus are General Category, and that America is a caste shredder, with many US-born…
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Cousin marriage in Bangladesh
Prompted by a Times argument to end cousin marriage in the UK, the author cites a PLOS One study of Bangladesh finding about 6.6% prevalence and three times higher mortality…
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A vision for solving India’s caste social crises
Razib Khan argues that jati-varna helped India resist Islamisation but is now a problem, calls caste-based reservations socially toxic and economically inefficient, and expects falling endogamy to dissolve the system…
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Varna is Indo-European and jati is Indian
Razib Khan observes that most Indo-European societies had occupational caste systems but only the subcontinent has jati, suggests the Indo-Aryans adopted indigenous forms of strict endogamy, and speculates that jati…
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Population structure in West Bengal and Bangladesh
Razib Khan reads a Genomes Asia 100K preprint for its Birbhum samples, noting that West Bengal samples sit west of Bangladeshi ones, Bengali Brahmins look distinct and Kayasthas look generic.…
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Ancient Pakistanis were Hindu
Razib Khan reads a preprint on British Pakistanis as showing jati-like endogamy beginning 1,500 to 2,000 years ago, plus a later wave from cousin marriage, and argues this rejects the…
