This is an interesting article. Thanks also to S. Palaniappan who signalled it yesterday.
Brendan Gillon
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 by Tony Joseph (The Hindu, June 16 2017).
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Professor Dominik Wujastyk,
Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity,
University of Alberta, Canada.
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