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2026-05-08 07:50 UTC
..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...'
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@RadicalAnthro@c.im 2026-05-08 07:57
December 1946, the Adivasi political leader Jaipal Singh Munda said: 'my people … have been disgracefully treated, neglected for the last 6,000 years … It is the new-comers – most of you here are intruders as far as I am concerned – it is the new-comers who have driven away my people from the Indus Valley to the jungle fastnesses.' Against this fraught background, intensified by the Hindutva grip this century, the palaeogeneticists are addressing the evidence on India's population history.