For years, Hindu nationalists aligned with India’s current government have been reluctant to accept research findings that indicate ancient migrants from the Eurasian Steppe, which stretches from China to central Europe, played a key role in the development of Indian society.
What the DNA says about the origins of the Indian people, however, could be politically loaded. Some of the bones may date to a period 3800 to 3500 years ago, around the time that Yamnaya pastoralists from the steppes, once called Aryans, are thought to have migrated to India. Historians believe Sanskrit, a classical language of the region, originated with these immigrants. Many Hindu nationalists, however, downplay or reject this scenario, in part because of its lingering association with colonial narratives about a race of fair-skinned Aryans conquering the region. Instead, they argue for a reverse sequence: that Aryans were indigenous to India, and eventually carried their language and culture to Central Asia and Europe.
Most academics don’t support this view, but it remains popular among some Hindu nationalist supporters of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party as well some Indian media. In 2019, for example, many Indian journalists reported that a study of aDNA from a 4500-year-old skeleton of a woman who lived in the Indus Valley proved there had been no “Aryan migration,” because she carried no steppe ancestry. In fact, the study only supported other evidence that the steppe migration occurred later. In April, however, India’s government tweaked a widely used grade 12 history textbook to present the study as undermining the steppe migration scenario.
DOI: 10.1126/science.zrm8yw9
TLDR: shitjeets were civilized and purified by whites from the steppes, inherited the white mans language and religions, and now try to claim it as their own. indigenous shitjeets look identical to abbos in australia and their indigenous achievements are roughly the same