"Scientists Find Link Between Indian Caste Rank And Genetic
Similarity To Europeans
In India, members of higher ranking castes are genetically more
similar to Europeans, while lower castes are more similar to Asians,
according to a study published in this month's issue of Genome
Research.
The study is from an international team led by Michael Bamshad
(University of Utah) and is the most comprehensive attempt so far to
explore the impact of ancient Western migrations on people in India.
The origins of people living in India are under debate. Some 5000
years ago, Indo-European speaking people from West Eurasia entered
India and purportedly mixed with native proto-Asian populations in
the region. Historians believe these West Eurasian immigrants
established the present Hindu caste system, while appointing
themselves to higher rank castes.
In this scenario, members of higher rank castes should exhibit a
closer genetic relationship to Europeans than lower rank castes,
given the taboos prohibiting intercaste marriages. However, previous
genetic studies with a limited focus have not produced a consensus on
Indian origins. The present study compares maternally inherited DNA
variations, paternally inherited variations, and bi-parentally
inherited variations between 265 Indian males of different castes and
750 African, European, Asian, and other Indian males. The detailed
comparison revealed that genetic similarities between Indians and
Europeans tend to increase with caste rank.
Intriguingly, the scientists found different trends when comparing
maternally inherited (mitochondrial) variations and paternally
inherited (Y chromosome) variations. Maternally inherited DNA in
Indian populations was overall more similar to Asians than to
Europeans, though similarity to Europeans increased with rank.
Paternally inherited DNA, on the other hand, was overall more similar
to Europeans than to Asians. These results support the notion that
the West Eurasian immigrants mixing with native populations were
mostly male, and that they tended to insert themselves into high
ranking positions in the developing Hindu Indian caste system.
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The whole thing is strikingly similar to what happened in Egypt at
almost the exact same time: The Egyptian proto-civilization was much
different from what Egyptian civilization ended up being and included
many local ethnic-cultural groups that lived and traded in the
greater nile region. Egyptian culture didn't realy kick off though
until the century after a massive incursion of alien peoples from the
North-East - Either Persia, Asia Minor, Caucasia, or the Iranian
steepes - all of which except for persia where inhabited by light-
skinned and even white (much of Asia Minor was once blonde-haired &
blue eyed, I've even met a few indigenous whites from Turkey - they
speak Turkish and worship Allah, but they're blonde-haired, blue-
eyed, white as white can be) indo-caucasoid peoples, although we tend
to think of them as turko-monglic areas as they have been ever since
the time of the Great Khan of the Mongols. This is the same region
the theoretical "Aryan" invaders of Indian myth came from.
In both cases the invaders used an ingenious complex of religion and
law to make the local populaces (who vastly outnumbered them in both
cases) their tame & willing servants, and linked rulersihp directly
and strictly to bloodline for the sake of their heirs. In both cases,
the indigenous peoples became slaves or were driven out /
exterminated, and neighboring groups were brought in instead, under
obligation to the rulers because they were receiving lands and slaves
(all stolen from the orignal people there, of course). That both of
these events happened in the same period, originated in the same
place, and sparked the launch of two of the most influential
civilizations & spiritualities known is too much of a coincidence.
It's as if they were the first group to really understand how
systemetized mythologies and rigged philosophies could enslave the
minds of their neighbors and make them into un-knowing, un-willing
allies & slaves for all time rather than just killing them and taking
their women & horses. Could it be possible that the "white-man's"
primary advantage in the early period was merely an exceptional skill
at the abstraction, allegory, and symbolic thinking that allowed him
to essentially control the minds of others?"
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/05/010515080044.htm
Incidentally, let's point out to those traditionalists who haven't
read the right books on "Tradition" that eugenics, the maintenance of
the qualities of race, is one of the eight disciplines of the Ayur-
Veda ("knowledge about life", "science of life"), "the mother of all
healing arts", as recorded in the Atharva-Veda and in the Rig-Veda.
It is from this form of natural medicine that most other cultures,
including the Chinese, the Tibetan and the Egyptian, developed their
own healing system.