Dear List,

I've been asked to be more specific.  Admittedly, the term "Siberian" is very vague.  My son is engaged to a professional genealogist who encouraged him to take a DNA test for paternal descent.  It turns out that my father, whom I have never met, is from Yakutsk and very likely to be a Sakha of that region.

George

On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Nagaraj Paturi <nagarajpaturi@gmail.com> wrote:

Yes, you did not say anything like IVC is superior to Vedic or urban is superior to pastoral/nomadic. As such, my words do not apply to your post.

 

I have been working on a shepherd community partly retaining its itinerant life style partly settled, spread in Telangana, southern Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. Prof. Gunther Sontheimer worked on the Maarashtra side of the topic, earlier to me.

 

This is, as you can understand, apart from my being one of those looking back at the painful colonial past of my country.

On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 4:35 PM, George Thompson <gthomgt@gmail.com> wrote:

"Civilizational" is a word that is not a part of my personal lexicon.  I pointed out the IVC was urban whereas Vedic was pastoral/nomadic.  I expressed no evolutionist/racist views. 

George

By the way, I am half Euro and half Siberian, and I know well what it is like to be a victim off racism.

On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 5:07 AM, Nagaraj Paturi <nagarajpaturi@gmail.com> wrote:

Civilizational cultures are superior to/ achievements over  non-civilizational/ pastoral is evolutionist. Evolutionism has racist underpinnings.

Prof.Nagaraj Paturi

Hyderabad-500044

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