Jats
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Clash of two Jats in the Indian army
Hamid Hussain says the reported clash between two senior Indian Army generals was a personality dispute of little significance, but uses it to trace the officers’ family backgrounds and military…
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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 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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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 Jatts do descend from Scythians
A short post pointing to a new paper on the genetic ancestry of modern Indus Valley populations in north-west India, under a title claiming the Jatts descend from Scythians.
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Turanistan & the Scythians of India
Observes that the largest concentrations of Scythians are in the Subcontinent’s border zones, recalling that Gujjars, Kambojas, Rajputs and Jats have Scythic or Iranian associations, and that these northwestern invaders…
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Notes on South Asian genetics, 2018
Prompted by a claim of genetic purity among Gaud Saraswat Brahmins, the author argues South Indian Brahmins show gene flow from local populations, and surveys what Harappa-project and other data…
