Here We Go Again: Why They Are Wrong About The Aryan Migration Debate This

Time As Well

Tony Joseph has been less than honest in dealing with the papers he quoted in favour of Aryan
migration scenario.

Possible routes of modern human migrations to Indian subcontinent.

It is a 2001 deja vu moment in 2017, as we saw the 1901 deja vu moment in 2001.

Michael Bamshad Does A Herbert Risley

In 2001, population geneticist Michael Bamshad of the Institute of Human Genetics, University
of Utah, studied the genetic makeup of caste groups from Visakhapatnam district in Andhra
Pradesh and compared them with various castes and regional groups of India as well as those
in Africa, Asia and Europe. Then in his paper, he announced how the 'genetic distances'
between castes correlated with social rank. The 'upper castes' were 'significantly more similar to
Europeans' than the 'lower castes', he concluded.[1]

Exactly a century before Bamshad, there was Sir Herbert Risley, commissioner for the 1901
census of India and honorary director of the Ethnological Survey of the Indian Empire, who had
applied the nasal index to the castes. He had proved how Indian castes belonged to several
racial categories from dark skinned, snubbed nose Dravidians to fair skinned Aryans with
pronounced proboscis.

Doubts were raised from the Indian side, when Swami Vivekanandas brother B N Dutta
challenged Risleys notion that higher castes had European noses.[2] He simply used more
data than Risley.

Later, in a detailed work on the origins of untouchability, Dr B R Ambedkar, the chief architect of
the Constitution of India, questioned the methodology and conclusions of Western ethnography.
Considering the colonial thesis that the so-called untouchables belonged to a different race
from the caste Hindus, Dr Ambedkar made a profound statement. Even if one were to consider
anthropometry as a science by which the race of a person could be established, he said, the
data obtained "disprove that scheduled communities belonged to a race different from the rest
of Hindu communities. The measurements prove that the Brahmin and the Untouchables belong
to the same race.[3]"

So, did Bamshad in 2001, with Single Nucleotide Polymorphism in the place of nasal index,
prove Risleys colonial ethnographic project of 1901 right and Dr Ambedkar wrong?

Interestingly, the story was immediately grabbed by popular science magazines as well as local
media. Popular Tamil newspaper Dinamani wrote an article approvingly quoting Bamshads
paper as Aryan invasion/migration theory being finally proved by science.

UK-based popular science magazine New Scientist presented the Bamshad paper with the
sensational heading 'Written in blood'. It then quoted a pro-missionary scholar Robert Hardgrave
as saying that there are 'some historical and archeological evidence' that the "Aryans came in,
they intermarried with indigenous people and also absorbed many of them into their social
system of ranking".[4]
The Times of India newspaper reported the study with the prominent heading in its international
section: 'Upper caste Indian male more European, says study'.[5]

Was It Frontline Then Authoritative Answer Regarding Aryan Migration?

Frontline, the magazine from the Left-leaning The Hindu family of publications, in reporting the
Bamshad paper announced sensationally: "New genetic evidence for the origins of castes
indicates that the upper castes are more European than Asian. It took a potshot at 'strident
nationalism' in the form of 'Hindutva' ideology, which rejects the premise that Aryans were
outsiders." While conceding that the archeological evidence of marauding or migrating Aryans
was wanting, the article declared "modern population genetics, based on analyses of the
variations in the DNA in population sets, has tools" that could provide "a more authoritative
answer". And that answer was that the Y-chromosomes of the 'upper caste' men had markers
closer to Eastern Europeans than to the Asians.[6]

One lone media voice that questioned the study was India Today. Labelling the Bamshad study
'controversial', an article in the publication drew parallel with the pseudoscientific racial study of
Risley a century ago. The magazine quoted the famous archeologist Dilip Chakravarti,
questioning the terminology used by the papers. The article cautioned readers against taking
the paper as the final say on the matter.[7] Soon Bamshad study was followed by another study
in 2004. A team of six scientists, including Richard Cordaux of Max Planck Institute for
Evolutionary Anthropology, studying the origin of the 'Hindu caste system' concluded that
'paternal lineages of Indian caste groups are primarily descended from Indo-European speakers
who migrated from central Asia 3,500 years ago'.[8]

Subsequent Studies Reject The Authoritative Answer

In 2003, Dr Toomas Kivisild and 17 other scientists published a paper, which studied both tribal
and 'caste' populations. The paper reported that the "Haplogroup R1a, previously associated
with the putative Indo-Aryan invasion, was found at its highest frequency in Punjab but also at a
relatively high frequency (26 per cent) in the Chenchu tribe". This suggested that southern and
western Asia might be the source of this haplogroup.

This study did not receive the media spotlight that Bamshad paper received. However, it did
prove to be a turning point. Dr Gyaneshwer Chaubey, of Estonian Biocenter, who is an expert in
the field of biological anthropology and evolutionary biology, says, "the paper is still true and that
is the one which has enlightened me to move to population genetics from Drosophila genetics!"
Dr Chaubey since then has been at the forefront of research work related to the peopling of
South Asia and is co-author of almost all the important papers dealing with the subject.

Then in 2006, a major genetic study of the Indian population was taken up by a team of 12
scientists. The study produced results that contradicted the 2001 study of Bamshad et al.
However, it did not receive the media attention it deserved. The paper had concluded:

The Y-chromosome data consistently suggest a largely south Asian origin for Indian caste
communities and therefore argue against any major inux, from regions north and west of India,
of people associated either with the development of agriculture or the spread of the Indo-Aryan
language family.[9]

This was followed by yet another research paper published in the same year. Among the 15
scientists, who submitted this paper, are some legends in the field, including Partha Mazumder
of Human Genetics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, L Luca Cavalli-Sforza and Peter Underhill of
Stanford University. The paper said:

The ages of accumulated microsatellite variation in the majority of Indian haplogroups exceed
10,000-15,000 years, which attests to the antiquity of regional differentiation. Therefore, our
data do not support models that invoke a pronounced recent genetic input from Central Asia to
explain the observed genetic variation in South Asia. R1a1 and R2 haplogroups indicate
demographic complexity that is inconsistent with a recent single history.[10]

In 2010, Peter Underhill along with Dr Lalji Singh of Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology,
Hyderabad and a team of 21 scientists published another paper, particularly dealing with R1a
specifically in relation to its geographic spread and its link with the spread of I-E languages.
Here, the study was conducted by "analysing more than 11,000 DNA samples from across
Eurasia, including more than 2,000 from haplogroup R1a to ascertain the phylogenetic
information of the newly discovered R1a-related SNPs. The paper made a decisive point:

The diversity and frequency profiles of M458 suggest its origin during the early Holocene and a
subsequent expansion likely related to a number of prehistoric cultural developments in the
region. ... Importantly, the virtual absence of M458 chromosomes outside Europe speaks
against substantial patrilineal gene flow from East Europe to Asia, including to India, at least
since the mid-Holocene.[11]

Even with such an avalanche of academic refutation of Bamshad 2001 paper, it continues to
enjoy media patronage. For example, in 2014, Beyond Headlines a website that calls itself a
leading alternative news portal published an op-ed piece titled 'American Scientist Proves
Brahmins are Foreigners' written by New Delhi-based Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Research
Centre director Professor Vilas Kharat. Prof Kharat wrote that "Michael Bamshad has
tremendously indebted the entire native Indians by publishing this report at an international
level". According to him, the report "proclaims that, the higher castes (ie the Brahmins,
Kshatriyas and Vaishyas) are not the original residents of India but they are the foreigners".
BAMCEF (All India Backward and Minority Communities Employees Federation) launched by
the founder-supremo of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) is taking Bamshad's report to the people
and doing this propaganda, he claimed.

It has been an interesting coincidence that the 2001 Bamshad paper had appeared almost at
the same time, when the then National Democratic Alliance government was battling attempts to
equate caste with race in the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination,
Xenophobia and Related Tolerance (WCAR) organised by United Nations in Durban. The
conference was to be held from 31 August to 2 September 2001. As certain globally connected
non-governmental organisations (NGOs) pushed the agenda to include caste-based issues as a
form of racism at the Durban conference, heated arguments erupted in the National Committee
on World Conference Against Racism (NCWCR). Dr Andre Beteille, the well-known social
anthropologist had resigned protesting equating caste with race in June.[12] And the same
month, of course as a coincidence, Bamshad paper appeared on the scene. Dr Beteille was
also critical of Bamshad paper.

Aryan Migrants Versus Indigenous Aryans?

One of the consistent straw man argument in many of the polemical pieces supporting Aryan
migration is that the Hindu nationalists claim Aryans to be indigenous. This is a straw man
argument. Leaving aside fringe groups, the organisation of historians affiliated to the Rashtriya
Swayamsevak Sangh, the main Hindutva organisation, does not claim Aryans to be
indigenous. On the other hand, it rejects the race concept itself and claims that there is no such
race called Aryans at all.[13] So any critique of Aryan invasion/migration is not to claim that
Aryans are indigenous and genetically pure. While accepting that there has been gene flow into
and out of Indian land mass, the contention is only that there was no such event as an Aryan
invasion or migration. In fact, one of the tallest ideologues of Hindutva, V D Savarkar stated as
early as in 1924 that all a human being can claim in terms of purity is that the blood of all
humanity runs through his veins and that the fundamental unity of human race from pole to pole
is the only reality.[14]

The Real Spin

So, when The Hindu reported in 2017, the paper of Prof Martin B Richards which claimed
evidence of "genetic influx from Central Asia in the Bronze Age" which was "strongly
male-driven, consistent with the patriarchal, patrilocal and patrilineal social structure attributed
to the inferred pastoralist early Indo-European society',[15] it is to be expected that the report
would be filled with the usual 'clinching evidence' clich. And the writer Tony Joseph definitely
does not disappoint us with his sensationalist heading 'How genetics is settling the Aryan
migration debate'. Deja vu 2001!

Unfortunately, though the euphoria was destined to be short-lived as it has become clear that
the writer has concealed data and has been economical with truth as revealed by the article of
Anil Suri. It will also become clear now that Joseph has been less than honest in even dealing
with the papers he quoted in favour of Aryan migration scenario and media reports he assailed.

Spin 2009?

In his article, Joseph takes to task some media reports of the 2009 study by Dr Lalji Singh et al.
Written under the subheading Spin and the Facts here is his criticism at length:

Aryan-Dravidian divide a myth: Study, screamed a newspaper headline on September 25,

2009. The article quoted Dr Lalji Singh, a co-author of the study and a former director of the
Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, as saying: This paper rewrites history
there is no north-south divide. The report also carried statements such as: The initial
settlement took place 65,000 years ago in the Andamans and in ancient south India around the
same time, which led to population growth in this part. At a later stage, 40,000 years ago, the
ancient north Indians emerged which in turn led to rise in numbers there. But at some point in
time, the ancient north and the ancient south mixed, giving birth to a different set of population.
And that is the population which exists now and there is a genetic relationship between the
populations within India.

The study, however, makes no such statements whatsoever in fact, even the figures 65,000
and 40,000 do not figure it in it!

Schematic diagram showing the process of formation of the present-day Indian populations.

The media report, he talks about, is from The Times of India, (25 September 2009) a competitor
to the newspaper he was working for. A conflict of interest at work here? However, what Joseph
did not do or if he did, what he had concealed from his readers is talking to the reporter for the
source of the numbers 65,000 BP for ancestral south Indians (ASI) and 40,000 BP for ancestral
north Indians (ANI). In fact, the report in The Times of India also quotes Dr Kumaraswamy
Thangaraj of Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad as saying the
above factoids does not say it is from the paper.

In 2009, I had independently contacted Dr Thangaraj. In his communication with me, he stated
the following, which I present here in his own words:

Our paper basically discards Aryan theory. What we have discussed in our paper
are pre-historic events.

Data included in this study is not sufficient to estimate the time of ANI settlement.
However, our earlier studies using mtDNA and Y chromosome markers, suggest
that the ANI are 40,000 years old. We predicted that the ASI are part of
Andamanese migration, therefore they could be about 60,000 years old.[16]

So, clearly Tony Joseph has allowed his bias towards the migration theory get the better of his
journalistic standards. Even here, he does not seem to have done his homework properly or
decided not to deal with certain facts.

In 2012, Dr Lalji Singh, two other scientists of CCMB (Rakesh Tamang and Kumaraswamy
Thangaraj) had published a paper. The paper explicitly made the following statements, along
with the info-graphics showing ANI entering India 40,000 years BP and ASI entering India
65,000 BP:

Interestingly, both the ANI and ASI ancestry components of the Indian populations are found to
harbour higher haplotypic diversity than those predominant in west Eurasia. The shared genetic
affinity between the ANI component of northern India and west Eurasia was dated prior to the
Aryan invasion (Metspalu et al. 2011). These realities suggest the rejection of the Aryan
invasion hypothesis but support an ancient demographic history of India.[17]

So there is no spin involved in the 2009 TOI report. The only spin regarding that 2009 report is
the negative one spun by Joseph, with wrong presumptions and concealed data.

And The Real Spin

Now let us come to the real spin Joseph engages in. Stanford University School of Medicine's
Department of Genetics scientist Peter Underhill's 2015 paper contains an interesting caution
"against ascribing findings from a contemporary phylogenetic cluster of a single genetic locus to
a particular pre-historic demographic event, population migration, or cultural transformation".
And more importantly he finds in "the geographic distribution of R1a-M780 a reflection of early
urbanization within the Indus Valley".[18]

In his email communication, Dr Underhill cautioned against jumping to conclusions with quite a
few caveats:

It is important to realize that haplogroup R1a1 is just one piece of genetic information that
informs the conversation about the peopling of Eurasian as well as Indian. It is also important to
keep in mind that the Y chromosome locus is sensitive to founder effect and high frequencies
may over-emphasize the magnitude of the impulse relative to other genetic data. For example
while the Y chromosome might indicate a large degree of replacement of other Y chromosomes
in a region, while other genetic data may indicate that the degree of replacement and mixing
was not as great as reflected by Y chromosome data alone.

Then, he pointed out:

The place of origin of the M417 branch & Z93 & Z282 branches as well as the Z780 branch is
uncertain but the diversification and distribution of M780 sub-lineages in consistent with an
approximate 5,000 years ago time horizon. As city state populations began to rise relatively
recently (post-New Stone Age ie Neolithic) the frequency distribution of M780 is consistent with
this population growth as well as a culture involving metallurgy and probably Indo-European
speakers as well as displacement of earlier peoples. While locally at considerable frequencies,
the overall distribution of various R1a lineages is a minority fraction (ca. 10%) in the Indian
population overall. [19]

So, let us summarise:

The place of origin of Z93 as well as Z780 branches have not been yet resolved.

The distribution of the branch itself happened approximately 5,000 years ago which
is when the city-states population and culture involving metallurgy were expanding.
 And even the probable replacement was not completely true in Indian context as
the overall distribution of various R1a lineages is a minority fraction.

Both the 2015 paper and Dr Underhills communication speak respectively about the early
urbanisation within the Indus Valley and the rise of city-states as well as their population
growth, associated with the spread of R1a lineages. So from the above, what can we conclude?
The early demographic changes in the area had a lot of region specific dynamics, which include
the distribution of M780 in the region. Given the 'minority fraction' presence of R1a in Indian
population, the 'replacement of earlier people' cannot be applied at least to Indian/Indus Valley
scenario. Dr. Chaubey affirms the above conclusion, without any doubt. According to him,
M780 is a marker that originated in India and phylogentically it is not nested in any other R1a
branch present in the world. In other words, he concludes, M780 doesn't show Central Asian or
Middle Eastern or European variants as ancestral to it.[20]

Interestingly, Joseph had contacted Dr Chaubey and after getting his inputs decided to edit
them out completely and does not even mention him once.

Joseph, citing the 2016 study, Punctuated bursts in human male demography inferred from
1,244 worldwide Y-chromosome sequences says something curious, which deserves to be
quoted at some length:

This paper, which looked at major expansions of Y-DNA haplogroups within five continental
populations, was lead-authored by David Poznikof the Stanford University, with Dr Underhill as
one of the 42 co-authors. The study found the most striking expansions within Z93 occurring
approximately 4,000 to 4,500 years ago. This is remarkable, because roughly 4,000 years ago
is when the Indus Valley civilization began falling apart.[21] (Emphasis not in the original)

However, the study itself says something very different:

Potential correspondence between genetics and archeology in South and East Asia have
received less investigation. In South Asia, we detect eight lineage expansions dating to 4.0-7.3
kya and involving haplogroups H1-M52, L-M11 and R1a-Z95. The most striking are expansions
within R1a-Z93, 4.0-4.5 kya. This time predates by a few centuries the collapse of the Indus
Valley Civilization associated by some with the historical migration of Indo-European speakers
from the western steppes into Indian sub-continent.[22] (Emphasis not in the original)
Interestingly, this paper is present behind a paywall and hence the original lines with which
Joseph has done almost a Lysenko-like editing, may not be seen by a casual Google search.
Actually, the period of expansion within R1a-Z93, 4,000-4,500 BP, matches not with decline but
with the mature phase of Harappan Civilisation (2500-1900 BCE).[23] So if at all we correlate
R1a-Z93 with Aryans then they were more likely to be contributors perhaps catalysing the
urban expansion of Indus cities rather than its destroyers. What is here even more interesting is
that along with R1a-Z93, established indigenous Indian lineages for example, H1-M52 and L-51
also showed the same expansion time, Dr Chaubey points out.

Jathi System Brought By Aryan/I-E Speakers?

Joseph then weaves a grand picture of the waves of migrants. Interestingly, the migrants of
Bronze Age, created Indus Valley Civilisation and migrants, who came next brought agriculture.
And then those who came with a language called Sanskrit and its associated beliefs and
practices and reshaped our society in fundamental ways. In fact when discussing the stopping
of the admixture of communities and emergence of endogamy, he gives a racial interpretation
and calls it shifting attitudes towards mixing of the races in ancient texts. So essentially the
Aryans brought with them Sanskrit, associated beliefs, rituals, a patriarchal social structure and
reshaped our society in fundamental ways. That is very euphemistically saying that Aryans
brought in caste system and fitted themselves at the top of the pyramid.

Even pro-migration Dravidian ologist Iravatham Mahadevan has interpreted ideograms in

Harappan script as representing occupational groups like 'functionary with priestly duty',
'functionary with military duty', 'Farmer, tiller, tenant' and 'servant'.[24] The parallel with v arna
system is indeed hard to miss.

More interesting is the observation of archeologist Jonathan Mark Kenoyer. He says:

Although repeatedly challenged by reformers and benevolent leaders, the literate Brahminical
elites were able to dominate ritual ideology and in many cases socio-economic organization
through their ability to control knowledge. In the context of the Indus state, the limited
distribution of written materials and their use by elites suggest that this pattern of control may
have started as early as the first urbanism in Indus cities.[25]

Leaving aside the socio-political views of Kenoyer on the Brahminical system, the empirical
data points out that the social stratification that we see in India today can be seen as having a
continuity with Indus Valley Civilisation and was not imposed by a marauding or migrating band
of Aryans from Central Asia.

Why The Persistent Bias?

Some years ago, while studying the population genetics papers related to the so-called Aryan
invasion/migration theories, I sent an email regarding certain issues to Dr Nicole Boivin, then
with the Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Cambridge, (and joined Max
Planck Institute for the Science of Human History as director of the Department of Archaeology
in July 2016), she advised me: "Do take all the genetics research with a giant grain of salt". She
had also explained in great detail the reason in her paper, 'Anthropological, historical,
archaeological and genetic perspectives on the origins of caste in South Asia':

Part of the reason that many geneticists prove Indo-Aryan invasions so frequently is that they
give little if any consideration to other populations that have or may have entered South Asia in
prehistoric and historic times. Another problematic assumption that therefore needs to be
highlighted is that in much of the genetics literature, the only (or only significant) possible
post-Holocene source of nonindigenous genetic material is Indo-Aryans.[26]

Dr Boivins critical observation becomes significant here because it is interesting again to see
that while eminent Indian geneticists like Dr Lalji Singh or Dr Partha Majumder have been able
to see the problem through a complex, multi-dimensional scenario, a section of geneticists from
Bamshad to Martin Richards seem to make one hypothetical event pivotal to entire
demographic evolution of Indian population. A comparison of the following conclusion of Dr
Partha Majumder et al in their May 2017 paper to the shrill conclusion of Martin P Richards
about "strongly male-driven, consistent with the patriarchal, patrilocal and patrilineal social
structure attributed to the inferred pastoralist early Indo-European society", will reveal the
contrast. Dr Majumder et al conclude:

A closest neighbour analysis in the phylogeny showed that Indian populations have an affinity
towards Southern European populations and that the time of divergence from these populations
substantially predated the Indo-European migration into India, probably reflecting ancient
shared ancestry rather than the Indo-European migration, which had little effect on Indian male
lineages. ... This analysis suggests that Indian populations have complex ancestry which cannot
be explained by a single expansion model.[27]
If one can feel the difference in spirit and approach to the problems between these two groups
of scientists, not in a crude caricatured way but as a subtle difference emerging from their
respective epistemologies perhaps, then we might have also understood, yet another subtle
though fundamental difference between the two approaches and also two visions of the ancient
past of India.

Postscript: I thank Dr Peter Underhill, Stanford University; Dr Gyaneshwer Chaubey, Estonian

Biocentre, Estonia; Dr Thangaraj Kumaraswamy of Cellular CSIR - Centre for Cellular &
Molecular Biology, India; Dr Nicole Boivin, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human
History, Germany, for taking their time and answering my questions, in 2009 and in 2017. They
not only responded but also sent me materials so that I can understand the problem better. I
thank Dr Lakshmi Chitoor Subramaniam, Mumbai, for taking the time to go through the draft and
correct it.

[1] Bamshad, Michael et al. Genetic Evidence on the Origins of Indian Caste Populations
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[2] Supriya Bezbaruah and Samrat Choudhury, White India A controversial genetic study says
upper caste Indians are closer to Europeans and lower castes to Africa, India Today,
30-July-2001

[3] Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar: Writings and Speeches, Volume 7, Government of

Maharashtra, Mumbai 1989, p 302

[4] Anil Ananthaswamy, Written in blood, New Scientist, 19-May-2001

[5] Chidanand Rajghatta, Upper caste Indian male more European, says Study, Times of India,
21-May-2001

[6] R Ramachandran, 'The genetics of caste, Frontline, Volume 18, Issue 12, 09-June-22, 2001

[7] Supriya Bezbaruah and Samrat Choudhury, 2001

[8] Cordaux Richard et al, Independent Origins of Indian Caste and Tribal Paternal Lineages,
Current Biology, Volume 14, Issue 3, 03-Feb-2004 p 231-5
[9] Sahoo S, et al, A prehistory of Indian Y chromosomes: evaluating demic diffusion scenarios,
PNAS. 24-January-2006; 103 (4): p 843-8

[10] Sengupta, Sanghamitra, et al. Polarity and Temporality of High-Resolution Y-Chromosome

Distributions in India Identify Both Indigenous and Exogenous Expansions and Reveal Minor
Genetic Influence of Central Asian Pastoralists; American Journal of Human Genetics 78.2
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[11] Underhill, Peter A, et al. Separating the Post-Glacial Coancestry of European and Asian Y
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[12] Naunidhi Kaur, 'Caste and race', Frontline, Volume 18, Issue 13, 23 June - 06 July 2001

[13] Shriram Sathe, Aryans: Who were they?, Bharatiya Itihasa Sankalana Samithi, Mysore,
1991

[14] Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (Essentials of Hindutva) Samagra Svarakaravmaya -

Volume 6, Maharashtra Prantik, Hindusabha, 1964, p 58

[15] Silva Marina, et al, A genetic chronology for the Indian Subcontinent points to heavily
sex-biased dispersals, BMC Evolutionary Biology, 14-Mar-2017, 17:88

[16] Dr Thangaraj Kumarasamy, communication dated 19-Oct-2009

[17] Tamang Rakesh, et al, Complex genetic origin of Indian populations and its implications,
Journal of Biosciences, 37(5), November 2012, p 911919

[18] Underhill Peter, et al, The phylogentic and geographic structure of Y-chromosome
haplogroup R1a, European Journal of Human Genetics, 2015 (230, p 124-131)

[19] Dr Peter A Underhill, e-mail communication dated 20-June-2017

[20] Gyaneshwer Chaubey, e-mail communication dated 21-June-2017

[21] Tony Joseph, 2017

[22] Poznik David et al, Punctuated bursts in human male demography inferred from 1,244
worldwide Y-chromosome sequences, Nature Genetics, 48 (2016), p 593599

[23] Upinder Singh, A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India: From the Stone Age to the
12th Century, Pearson Education India, 2008, p 138

[24] Iravatham Mahadevan, Indus Script 'Dictionary'

[25] Jonathan Mark Kenoyer, Ideology and Legitimization in the Indus State as revealed
through symbolic objects, Ed Asma Ibrahim and Kaleem Lashari, Archeological Review
Karachi-Pakistan, 1995, Volume 4, Issues I & II, p 87-121

[26] Nicole Boivin, 'Anthropological, historical, archaeological and genetic perspectives on the
origins of caste in South Asia', M D Petraglia and B Allchin (eds), The Evolution and History of
Human Populations in South Asia, p 341361, Springer, 2007

[27] Mondal Mayukh, et al, Y-chromosomal sequences of diverse Indian populations and the
ancestry of the Andamanese, May 2017, Volume 136, Issue 5, p 499510