Azaad
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The 4,600-year-old woman from Rakhigarhi
The DNA study of a skeleton from the archaeological excavation site in Haryana has opened a Pandora’s box on genomics, history, archaeology, and linguistics. The findings, which will be in a school textbook, have re-ignited ‘The Aryan Question’ and opened a new frontier on whether the Harappan...
www.thehindu.com
I don't know what's more baffling , the fact that a 4600 year old female skeleton was found without any traces of the steppe gene or the fact that The Hindu is taking a nuanced PoV given its ideological bent albeit towards the end of the article they do play true to form.
Then there's Dr Niraj Rai who's been promising a peer reviewed detailed paper on the genomics of this skeleton which he claims will put to rest all the controversy dogging the ancestry of the Indian people since the past 3 years at least & it's still not out leading the AIT / AMT camp among the Indian twitterati following this subject to darkly hint at a conspiracy given the findings don't fit into the present Government's ideological framework.