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2026-05-08 07:57 UTC
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.
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@RadicalAnthro@c.im 2026-05-08 08:07
Homo sapiens arrived first in the subcontinent about 65,000-50,000 years ago, and would have found the region already inhabited by other humans (likely Denisovan,who I would call human not simply hominin). ...Genetic scientists say that, today, almost all people in South Asia carry this ‘First South Asians’ ancestry in their genomes to varying degrees, with tribal groups possessing more of it than others. https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)00462-3