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245			_aEarly Indians _b: the story of our ancestors and where we came from
260			_bJuggernaut Books _c2018 _aNew Delhi
300			_axi, 267p
504			_aInclude Bibliography and Index
520			_aWho are we Indians? Where did we come from? Many of us believe our ancestors have lived in South Asia since 'time immemorial'. But, as it turns out, 'time immemorial' may not have been all that long ago. To tell us the story of our ancestry, journalist Tony Joseph goes 65,000 years into the past—when a band of modern humans, or Homo sapiens, first made their way from Africa into the Indian subcontinent. Citing recent DNA evidence, he traces the subsequent large migrations of modern humans into India—of agriculturalists from Iran between 7000 and 3000 BCE and pastoralists from the Central Asian Steppe between 2000 and 1000 BCE, among others this book relies heavily on path-breaking DNA research of recent years. But it also presents earlier archaeological and linguistic evidence—all in an entertaining and highly readable manner. A hugely significant book, Early Indians authoritatively and bravely puts to rest several ugly debates on the ancestry of modern Indians. It not only shows us how the modern Indian population came to be composed as it is but also reveals an undeniable and important truth about who we are: we are all migrants. And we are all mixed
650			_aPrehistoric peoples _vIndus civilization _vAntiquities _zIndia
650			_aEthnology _vCivilization _vHuman genetics _zIndia
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