Some thoughts on the ancient Harappans genome study.

An Ancient Harappan Genome Lacks Ancestry from Steppe Pastoralists or Iranian Farmers

Here are my quick thoughts on the recently published genomic study from Rakhigarhi.

“An Ancient Harappan genome lacks ancestry from Steppe pastoralists or Iranian farmers,” finds this genome study.

It signals a paradigm shift, however, many will argue just a vindication. 1/nhttps://t.co/ONPKnVgQuA

— Avatans Kumar (@avatans) September 6, 2019

“An Ancient Harappan genome lacks ancestry from Steppe pastoralists or Iranian farmers,” finds this genome study. It signals a paradigm shift, however, many will argue just a vindication. 

This genome study has far reaching consequences in epistemology. It busts ‘Aryan’ myth and proves that the Indian subcontinental population has no detectable ancestry from Steppe pastoralists or from Anatolian and Iranian farmers.

The study conversely suggests that the so-called ‘Aryan’ group is probably a descendant of a South East Asian group moving westward. It suggests that farming in Indian subcontinent arose from local foragers rather than from large-scale migration from the West.

The finding also throws the linguistic taxonomy of Indo-European languages into total disarray. The IE taxonomy is premised on the Central Asian homeland of the ‘Aryans’ and their arrival in the Indian subcontinent from west.

The study talks about the possible Eastern European and Balto-Slavic connection as far as languages of the Indian subcontinent are concerned

(Please read The Death ofProto-Indo-European by Subhash Kak)

Most importantly, this study virtually shuts down the shops of those fraud academics, journalists and their cheerleaders world over who have perpetuated a falsehood for about 200 years without any basis. 

(Those who bought Tony Joseph’s book might ask for a refund.)

With Rakhigarhi and numerous other similar ‘Harappan’ sites being outside the Indus Valley geography, the least the academic circle can do is to add Sarasawati while referring to the Harappan civilization.

Additionally, it is disingenuous of the authors to talk of ‘Anatolia’ but shun using ‘Indian Subcontinent’ in favor of ‘South Asia’. South Asia is a post-colonial construct mainly developed by the leftist-progressive activists and academics in the US.

South Asia has no link to the past, the history, the culture, languages, and civilization. It is imperative that South Asian marker is dropped altogether in favor of Indian subcontinent.