Aryan Debate: Do the recent genetic studies validate Aryan invasion theory?
Last September, with the release of the genetic paper titled ‘An Ancient Harappan Genome Lacks Ancestry from Steppe Pastoralists or Iranian Farmers’ by Shinde et al, which is about study conducted on ancient More...
Book Summary: Genetics and the Aryan Debate by Shrikant Talageri- I
There are two theories regarding the history of ancient Indian civilization. The first is the AIT or the Aryan Invasion Theory, postulating that a group of people from South West Russia speaking Indo-European languages More...
Indian History in Perspective – 3 : How India Culturalized the World
[contextly_sidebar id=”hMH0TYXI2vzoZgmgYKpOcumlFEl9LJ7s”] In the previous part, we had discussed how Indians had civilized the world. We had talked about how the R1a1a haplogroup (a genetic marker), More...
Indian History in Perspective – 2 : How India Civilized the World
[contextly_sidebar id=”EY9v9asfL16rGvMD95vXlfvw0QQiRTEU”] In the previous part we had discussed how Indians had peopled and colonized the world. We had started out by pointing out the flaws of teaching More...
Propagandizing the Aryan Invasion Debate: A Rebuttal to Tony Joseph
On 16 June 2017, an article appeared on the Hindu titled “How genetics is settling the Aryan migration debate” by Tony Joseph. This article claims that the question of the origin of the Indo-Aryan people has More...
Indian History in Perspective- 1: How India Colonized the World
India is an ancient land. Yet most of our history books do not do any justice to the antiquity of our motherland and focus merely on the political history, especially of the last 1,000 years. Pre-history is considered More...