Post #2384099
2026-05-08 07:39 UTC
'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'
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@RadicalAnthro@c.im 2026-05-08 07:50
..and on the political battles over the archaeology 'Some, like Nehru, were excited about the new insights that the Indus Valley research was going to offer. Others, mostly ‘Hindutva’ (or Hindu supremacist, or Hindu nationalist) ideologues from upper-caste communities, were exasperatedly mulling over how to retrofit the Harappans in their already fully formed conclusions about the subcontinent’s history...'