[INDOLOGY] "How genetics is settling the Aryan migration debate"

[Dominik Wujastyk]

An interesting article in yesterday's *The Hindu* about the latest
discoveries on the genetics of Indian populations:

"The thorniest, most fought-over question in Indian history is slowly but
surely getting answered: did Indo-European language speakers, who called
themselves Aryans, stream into India sometime around 2,000 BC – 1,500 BC
when the Indus Valley civilisation came to an end, bringing with them
Sanskrit and a distinctive set of cultural practices? Genetic research
based on an avalanche of new DNA evidence is making scientists around the
world converge on an unambiguous answer: yes, they did."

Continue reading:
How genetics is settling the Aryan migration debate
<http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/how-genetics-is-settling-the-aryan-migration-debate/article19090301.ece?homepage=true>
by
Tony Joseph (The Hindu, June 16 2017).


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Professor Dominik Wujastyk <http://ualberta.academia.edu/DominikWujastyk>
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Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity
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Department of History and Classics <http://historyandclassics.ualberta.ca/>
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University of Alberta, Canada
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South Asia at the U of A:

​sas.ualberta.ca​
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