Post #2265921
2026-05-08 07:20 UTC
Interesting essay on the new role of palaeogenetics in understanding the peopling of India, in relation to the 19th.C history of linguistics, and 20th C developments in archaeology of the Indus Valley.
Mixing and migrating of course is typical Homo sapiens. Lots to learn here on the historic work of Indian activists on the need for emancipation from the caste system.
https://aeon.co/essays/ancient-india-was-shaped-by-waves-of-migration-and-mixing
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@RadicalAnthro@c.im 2026-05-08 07:39
'About the same time that Max Müller – living in England and having never visited India – was choosing to emphasise such claims of common Aryan ancestry for Europeans and Indians, his contemporary Phule – living in India and daily experiencing the effects of its caste system – chose to focus on the ‘foreign’ ancestry of the Brahmans. In Phule’s interpretation, the same blood might have run, if at all, in the veins only of Europeans and upper-caste Indians'