/lit/ - Literature

This book sets out the different possibilities and comes down on the side of an elite replacement and genetic mixing rather than a folk migration. That may or may not be right, but it is still an important read because it sets out a lot of the evidence for each theory then reasons through it in a non dogmatic way. It also talks about the ongoing importance of the pastoral people, and there are some spicy takes about how the periphery areas like mountains, jungles and borderlands were more amenable to buddhist influence because they preserved the IE lifestyle in a purer way; unaffected by the partly dravidian magicks of the brhamins.

PS: Indian nationalists and European leftists have created this weird alliance where merely acknowledging the steppe DNA which is literally present in Indians today (more among the higher castes), it's a complete nonsense.