The difference between Bengalis and Punjabis is about 20-25% and its largely due to east Asian dna than ASI.The sample used in this chart is BEB from 100genome which is lower caste hindus sample from Dhaka,they lack indo Aryan related alleles and has slightly higher ASI than average Bangladeshis. There are three types of ANI in south Asian, one is from neolithic Iran and is present is every south Asians, another is from proto Indo aryans,which is only present in Afghans,Pakistanis,North Indians and Bangladeshis, but absent in South Indians and Balochis.There are some archaic ANI present in ASI as well.
ASI itself is around half ASE(ancestral south eurasian) and the other half contains archaic west eurasian dna, but the genealogist cant 100% confirm it because there arent any sample tested from paleolithic south Asia.
Based on some calculators on gedmatch,Bengalis have around 20-25% ASE compared to North Indian's 20-30%,South Indian's 28-40%,Pakistani-Punjabis 13-20% and Pashtun's 10-15%.
The Pakistani guys later told that he thought my cousin as a Pakistani Pathan, my cousin isnt darker skinned than pathans, he is olive skinned like many pathans or balochis,but the real reson he got mistaken as pathan is due to his hook nose,height and robust built and thick eyebrows, there are bengalis with fair skin as south Europeans as well.
The red coding is heavily western eurasian/ANI or Iran Neolithic alongside ASI.For example,Gujaratis have more red than south Indians.
Interestingly some Bengalis showing some kalash/yellow as well, Kalash has been so isolated that they become something unique.
Half of Bangladeshis are not local dalit convert lol only few bengali muslims are hindu convert.
Majority of Bangladeshi muslims never were Hindu, they were Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhisht for thousands of years,for example under Pala Empire and buddhist dont believe in any caste system.
Genetically Bangladeshi muslims are like North Indian Kshatriyas or middle caste hindus,if you exclude 10-15% east Asian dna Bangladeshis score.
I've actually read that your average middle class bengali is genetically similar to gujratis with a shift towards burmese. However significant diversity does exist. I'm not really sure if a lot of bengalis know this or not, but in sylhet there are villages where zamindars of the villages are actually descendants of one of Shah Jalal's 360 followers who came from Persia and the Middle east to propagate Islam around the 14th century. As far as I know Shah Jalal stayed a bachelor all his life, but he gave his disciples the permission to marry the local people in the hills of sylhet after converting them to Islam - According to many sources including the book: Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier.
My mom's side of the family are descendants of Shah Helim Uddin Chowdhury who was from Yemen. Most of the people from my mom's side of the family including my mom are really fair skinned. My mom herself has been confused as an afgan occasionally by afgans themselves. Albeit, I know that a lot of Yemenis are dark skinned, but I think we got a fair skinned Yemeni in our family. All this is strictly anecdotal however as we don't have any genetic testings to prove it but a log/book in our family home that contains a family tree and ancestors. Our family book itself contains scriptures written in Farsi.
General Osmani is a descendant of Shah Nizamuddin Osmani, a 14th-century associate of Shah Jalal. We know some of Osmani's distant relatives in Canada, some of them actually show arab/persian phenotypes, which includes milk white skin and beautiful eyebrows.
Hell Zubaida Rahman the wife of Tarique Rahman is also sylheti and she looks a bit pathan, I'm sure she's got some afgan influence in her family as she comes from a high class family.
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