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Are Dalits genetically upper caste or lower caste?
Answer Wiki. 2 Answers. Some dalits, like Meghwal SC from Rajasthan and Paswan from Bihar, are genetically Upper caste, their paternal gene dna has a high \% of the Aryan gene R1A. Most Dalit North Indians have high \% paternal dna = H.
Are Dravidians and Dalits of the same race?
According to Lal, the Nubian megaliths date from around 1000 B.C.” The term “distorted race theory” in application to the Dravidian movement, which is compared to Nazism and Hindutva. The latest genetic research, which conclusively proves that the Dravidians and Dalits belong to the same Negroid stock.
Is Dalit a pure breed of Indian?
Its to be understood that all modern Indians are mix of varying degrees of ASI (Ancestral south Indians) and ANI (Ancestral North Indians)no ones a “pure” breed except maybe the Andaman tribes and deep north eastern tribes. The term ‘’Dalit’’ coined by Phule expressing fallen people is acceptable, but has no other connotation.
Are Dravidians genetically different from South-Asian people?
The modern Dravidians are the mix of ancient “Iranian” farmers and hunter-garthers from southern India. No one of them was Australoid. This is proven by modern genetics. The native South-Asian people are geneticaly unique to India and Sri Lanka.
Are Tamil castes more genetically similar to Europeans than to Asians?
For 32 lineage-defining mitochondrial SNPs and hypervariable sequence (HVS) 1, Tamil castes have higher affinity to eastern Asians than to Europeans. For 45 autosomal STRs, upper and middle rank castes show higher affinity to Europeans than do lower rank castes from either Tamil Nadu or Andhra Pradesh.
What is the meaning of the Hindi word ‘Dalit’?
Dalit is a vernacular form of the Sanskrit दलित (dalita). In Classical Sanskrit, this means “divided, split, broken, scattered”. This word was repurposed in 19th-century Sanskrit to mean ” (a person) not belonging to one of the four Brahminic castes”.