DNA Points to India's Two-Pronged Ancestry

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1."suggesting that current caste and ethnic divisions predate that time.well before the colonial era"
Is this a great new find? Whoever doubted it. Most Indians always thought that the cast system comes from the Vedic times of more than 5ooo years back.
2."Speakers of Dravidian languages arrived roughly 5,000 years ago, followed by Indo-European speakers approximately 3,500 years ago."
Cannot believe this. No significant populations arrived into India in the last few thousands of years. The flow if any is outwards, out of India.
Ref:http://www.archaeologyonline.net/artifacts/genetics-aryan-debate.html

Prasad 9:46PM September 24, 2009

1."suggesting that current caste and ethnic divisions predate that time.well before the colonial era"
Is this a great new find? Whoever doubted it. Most Indians always thought that the cast system comes from the Vedic times of more than 5ooo years back.
2."Speakers of Dravidian languages arrived roughly 5,000 years ago, followed by Indo-European speakers approximately 3,500 years ago."
Cannot believe this. No significant populations arrived into India in the last few thousands of years. The flow if any is outwards, out of India.
Ref:http://www.archaeologyonline.net/artifacts/genetics-aryan-debate.html

Prasad 9:43PM September 24, 2009

Great! Now that we know all these wonderful facts;
may we please, please, please,
dismantle caste ridden mindset in the upper caste elite in India.
And while we are at it, will the lower castes step up (no puns intended),
and do their bit in doing away with caste based reservations?
For this bias in the upper and lower caste has created the
dirty caste based politics of India.
Pretty puhlease? Be good now!

Aravinda Ramesh 8:44PM September 24, 2009