2009/9/24 ss <cybers...@gmail.com> > On Sunday 31 Aug 2008 7:10:54 am ss wrote: > > India is a collection of tribes - essentially endogamous ethnic > > "communities". I am a member of a tribe too as are many of the Indian > > members of Silk. My tribe is called "hoysala karnataka". My father and > > mother and my grandpatents were all hoysala karnatakas. But my wife is > from > > a different tribe (Madhwa). These "tribes" are otherwise known as > "jatis". > > Resurrecting this thread because of a report I saw in the paper - this > quote > above is from my own post. I was thrilled to have my hypothesis confirmed > by > genetic studies. > > > http://www.deccanherald.com/content/27013/genetically-good-chalk-cheese.html > > Let me quote the relevant bit: > > > The finding that nearly all Indian groups descend from mixtures of two > > ancestral populations applies to traditional “tribes” as well as > “castes”. > > The findings suggest castes are inseparable from tribes. Genetics proves > > that they are not systematically different. Castes grew directly out of > > tribal-like organisations during the formation of Indian society. > > > > Social practices like marriage within the same caste helped preserve > unique > > genetic signatures that aided the researchers in understanding India’s > > population history. >
I was just doing an online search on this today because I was reading The Argumentative Indian in which he argues against the Hindutvadi claim that the Aryans arrived in India much earlier than the IVC/Harappan civilization. What this article confirms is what they've been saying all along, and I was under the impression that this is not the generally accepted version of history. Also, this contradicts the findings on genetic clustering analysis performed in 2006 which found no significant genetic variation among the Indian population [1]. Quote from the article on which this image appears [2]: Clustering analysis from Rosenberg (2006), shows no distinctive genetic cluster compositions among Indo-Aryan populations in India, though there is a slight change in the specific Indo-Aryan populations of the Punjab, Sindh and Kashmir regions located in the north-west of South Asia. So what is correct? Kiran [1] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/Rosenberg2007.png [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Aryan_migration
