Harvard Genetics Study Explodes Myth of Hindu Racial Purity

[INDIC]

To be fair its not his research, he merely pointed out the highlights of a research project done by a highly respected research institute.

I know about that research, It said Indians stopped intermarriage since 1st century, before that intermarriages were common. He just mixed it with his Hindu hatred and hate for India.

Initially intercaste marriage were very common in ancient India but kids always inherit the caste and clan of their father. Later people stopped inter-caste marriages. Many castes in India shares same clan names.

Caste is certainly not a race, you can't identify a person's caste by looking at his face.

 

[rubyjackass]

There was no such thing as Hinduism. It is the foreigners who branded the locals here as Hindus because they could not understand the diversity here. Then they fought the locals uniting them under the same name, Hinduism. The better of RSS people realize this and insist that all Indians regardless of religion are Hindus(though their problem is to somehow believe that the other religion people should also call themselves Hindus). I haven't heard of any racial purity theories from RSS.

 

[Srinivas]

@RiazHaq saab you are a respected person, it seems going by your profession.

Nobody in India claims the racial purity of a Hindu, It is the reverse situation in pakistan where muslims claim they are descendants of Arabs.

Your writings are full of twisted facts and they are far from truth.

Haq's Musings: Harvard Genetics Study Finds Most Indians Are Not Indigenous

"To keep up the purity of the Race and its culture, Germany shocked the world by her purging the country of the Semitic races -- the Jews. Race pride at its highest has been manifested here. Germany has also shown how well-nigh impossible it is for races and cultures, having differences going to the root, to be assimilated into one united whole, a good lesson for us in Hindusthan to learn and profit by." Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar, leader of the Hindu Nationalist RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh)
Debunking the myth of "the purity of the Race" pushed by Hindu Nationalist leader Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar, a Harvard study published in the American Journal of Human Genetics has found that vast majority of Indians today have descended from a mixture of two genetically divergent populations--Ancestral North Indians (ANIs) who migrated from Central Asia, the Middle East, the Caucasus, and Europe, and Ancestral South Indians (ASI), who are not closely related to groups outside the subcontinent.

Source: World Values Survey and Washington Post

Geographically, Ancestral North Indians (ANIs) tend to be more concentrated in the northern and western parts of India closer to West Asia, while Ancestral South Indians are found mostly in southern and eastern parts of India.

The paper, titled "Genetic Evidence for Recent Population Mixture in India" confirms that North Indians ancestors started migrating to India from outside thousands of years before the advent of Islam. ANIs and ASIs routinely intermarried between 4,200 and 1,900 years ago until the imposition of strict segregation by the Hindu caste system, according to the study.

With segregation strictly in place, the Indian society moved toward endogamy—the practice of avoiding intermarriage or close relationships between ethnic groups—which reached its most extreme form in the creation of the caste system which remains in force to this day. A 2011 report found that in “40 percent of the schools across sample districts in Uttar Pradesh—India’s most populous state, with 199 million people—teachers and students refuse to partake of government-sponsored free midday meals because they are cooked by dalits (untouchables).”

The paper is based on the work of researchers from Harvard, MIT, and the CSIR-Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology in Hyderabad, India. They conducted what they call the “most comprehensive sampling of Indian genetic variation to date,” using samples collected from 571 individuals belonging to 73 “well-defined ethno-linguistic groups.” The data allowed the authors to trace not just the genetic mixture between these groups but how long ago this mixture occurred.

Similar genetic studies of Pakistanis published in the American Journal of Human Genetics have found very diverse ancestral origins of the people in the country. These range from Balochis with origins in Aleppo (modern Syria) to Brahuis who are indigenous Dravidian, and Baltis of Sino-Tibetan ancestry to Pashtuns of Jewish or Central Asian origins.

These genetic studies offer strong rebuttal of Hindu Nationalists' claims of "racial purity" of Hindus. Genetics confirm that most Indians (and Pakistanis) are, in fact, people of mixed or foreign ancestry regardless of their faith.


Haq's Musings: Harvard Genetics Study Finds Most Indians Are Not Indigenous

 

[eastwatch]

I know about that research, It said Indians stopped intermarriage since 1st century, before that intermarriages were common. He just mixed it with his Hindu hatred and hate for India.

Initially intercaste marriage were very common in ancient India but kids always inherit the caste and clan of their father. Later people stopped inter-caste marriages. Many castes in India shares same clan names.

Caste is certainly not a race, you can't identify a person's caste by looking at his face.

It may be true that inter-caste marriages were common among the Hindus of old days. But, it is not true that the kids inherited the caste and clan of their father. It was just the opposite. The fair-skinned polygamist Aryan men forced marriages into the lower castes of the then India. So, they could take wives also from lower castes.

However, by their own social dictate the kids had to take the family titles of their mothers. It means that the mixed offspring, boys and daughters, remained labelled as lower caste.

As a result of this forced companionship or sex imposed upon the vanquished local Indians, it can be seen that the Y chromosome and X chromosome of many of the boys and girls, respectively, of today's low caste Hindus are same as those two chromosomes of the higher caste people.