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Sandipan Talukdar
What the DNA of a 4500 year-old Skeleton from Rakhigarhi has to say about Ancient India
07 Sep 2018
The recent findings hold the possibility to thwart the right wing claim that the Indus Valley civilisation was Vedic Hindu, which has been contested by archaeologists, historians and geneticists…
Prabir Purkayastha
Peopling of South Asia and Multiple Migrations from Outside
04 Jul 2017
The genetic evidence shows significant migrations from Eurasian steppes into South Asia. The Indo-Aryan language speakers have a higher signature of Central Asian genes, and even higher for the male…
Prabir Purkayastha
Population Genetics Confirm Historians and Confound Hindutva Theories
22 Jun 2017
The gutting of research bodies in India and its leading institutions – Indian Council of Historical Research and Jawaharlal Nehru University – is not simply an attack on its political and social…
Prabir Purkayastha
History, Genetics and Statistics
15 Nov 2012
The study of the past has never been an easy exercise.