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Let it be clear, the DNA and archaeology also shows that India was not some pristine "Aryan" homeland. Indians were a mixed people from the beginning and the link to Iranians is very deep and predates Bronze Age. 1/n
What the DNA studies are showing is that Iranic, SE Asian and local Indians were moving around and mixing.from Neolithic period. Moreover, the so called "Aryan" group R1a1 is probably a descendant of a SE Asian group moving North Westward. 2/n
The ancestors of R1a1 are from K2b2 who are in SE Asia. Its cousins R2 etc are found mostly in India (with a concentration in eastern Gangetic plains). 3/n
We are dealing with small groups moving back and forth, often due to changing climate. The obsession with grand superior culture is a colonial pursuit, not an Indian one. 4/n
Indo-Iranian cultural links are direct and do not need Central Asia. Moreover, the Central Asians were also linked to groups that had migrated north after Ice Age. They are all related groups mixing back and forth. 5/n
