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Eztainutlacatl

@cbkwgl

Jun 20

Pure crackpottery. And these are the Prophets of Steppe Barbarianism?
1. Yamnaya is Steppe but Maykop is not. How are they related? Had you linked Yamnaya to the horse eating Sredny Stog, it would have made more sense.
2. Yamnaya and Afanasievo are as good as unrelated from the material angle. Some Steppe ancestral population and near complete divergence. Afanasievo bronze came from South and not from Yamnaya.
3. Sinthastha is not related to Yamnaya. They are related to Abashevo and there is a centuries gap between the both.
4. There is no link between Yamnaya and Andronovo either.
5. Andronovo is not a monolith. It's just a bunch of random tribes given a common name. They had Mongoloid skull structure and even Indus Valley craniologial features.
6. The Andronovo which entered BMAC actually used stone tools and disappeared into the local gene pool. They are not those mighty barbarians swing their axes and prancing on their chariots. The migrants actually learnt the basics of civilization - sedentary life, agriculture and even metallurgy from the BMAC tribes.
7. Archaeologists are emphatic there is no Andronovo trace anywhere in India or Pakistan
8. The only thing which is correct in this image and which is not depicted is the Corded Ware's invasion of Europe and appropriation of their women, forming modern Europe.
I never knew the crackpottery is this bad.
image: @naa_ganesan

This crackpottery doesn't consider some of the fundamental features of Steppe evolution
1. The concept of lack of memory: Something happens, people forget it and someone rediscovers the same thing after a few centuries. This happened repeatedly and one of the greatest examples is the discovery of Kargaly Mines by both Yamnaya and Srubnaya
2. The ubiquitousness of the Steppe gene, whatever it is. There are some steppe genetic markers which are available everywhere as ubiquitous as the differential markers between humans and apes. It is so ubiquitous, almost everyone from Carpathians till the Hexi have that. No one investigates what it is, how it evolved and how it spread. Rather than doing what is logical, they use this gene as a proof of migrations and invasions. No one looks at it from the angle, everyone had it and any random marriage or slave raid could have carried it anywhere. Like Chenghiz Khan's blood in Danish royal lines. The whole ponzi is built around this and when there is no proof of something, they declared, absence of proof is not proof of absence. If I use the same argument?

One great example of this absence of proof logic is the Rakhigarhi skeleton. We don't know if that lady is a foreign wife of an IVC warrior. Or if both are outsiders. We have a royal one DNA sample and any sane filed would have rejected it as an outlier. But the PIE studies treat it as gospel and the whole ponzi is built around it.
1. Everyone knows the interactions between BMAC and IVC. The skeletons in BMAC are not that of marriages between BMAC and IVC which actually should be very common but that of spreading admixture wave. They are not contained random samples but are representatives of an epidemic of scale.
2. What's the next sample? Swat, 1200. Now explain me this. On one side, you are saying there are barbarians migrating into India. This Swat thing sits exactly on the path and is of the size of a barbarian band. Rather than calling them out as a possible migration wave(if you follow the Steppe Worship Model), they become Indian?
We have one outlier which is not an outlier but a gospel. We have 17 people born out of intermarriages of migrants but they represent a major admixture. We have skeletons of a migratory band but they become locals.
Did these people even proof read what they wrote or they themselves are scared of the crackpottery it will reveal?

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Eztainutlacatl

@cbkwgl

Jun 11

These verses are interesting. The host facing Sudasa is much powerful than him but he was able to defeat them. Now, if one dates this to 1900 BC, it possibly means people from the South moved north to divert the major rivers to stop Mohenjodaro from flooding. And that would mean flooding of Sudasa's kingdom - the point of argument here being, Indra supported the weak Sudasa against his enemies even though some of them were pious because they sided Adharma - diverting rivers and stealing cows. This battle talks more of desperation from every side than any totentanz towards glory.

Now, Sharmaji wrote the names in reverse -> Notice, he crossed Vipas first and then Sutudri. In the Dasarajna, he crossed Parusni. That means he ruled in the area between those three rivers(cross South and North) -> major city being Harappa. The question then would be, what is the time when Harappa was hemmed from all sides?

Now, what other hints of "not a totentanz" do we have? While during the battle, Purus are crushed, Vasistha prays to Indra to protect the Purus in the next Rik but such leeway is not given to the others.

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Eztainutlacatl

@cbkwgl

May 18

Chase-Dunn here, on World Systems. Why aren't we taught such simple models in schools? They are realistic and more easy to understand than the stuff which is thrust down the throats of students in their formative years.

This is just one small paper of 12 pages. See the amount of learning in this. The trends on which the world operates(above), the tango between capitalism and socialism, the philosophy behind communism(the other one, the better one) and the obvious argument in favour of capitalist democratic movement,

Liberalization, when it met globalization in a core-periphery context demanded a lapse back towards socialism. And the next one is a beauty. Socialism led to State Capitalism. Internally, it's a Socialist State but externally, it's a capitalist state, a phenomenon perfectly identifiable with China.

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Eztainutlacatl

@cbkwgl

May 14

Let me quote Fairservis's paper on IVC. He is one of the leading figures in IVC archaeology from an article dating to 1961. No Bhandarkar, no Banerji, no anybody.

The decade of 1950s saw nothing of worth coming out of IVC.

Now, how did the civilization start? Like Edison. 1000 times he failed to make a bulb and finally he made one.

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Eztainutlacatl

@cbkwgl

Aug 18, 2025

When the Rani of Jhansi realized that the fort is about to fall, there was absolute silence for some time. The outer corridor has already fallen while the Rani was holed up in the inner fort. One fine day, the main gates opened and bust out of it, the Rani in person with an escort of 500 mercenaries and the royal treasury on a state elephant amidst.

They charged directly into the cannons, destroying them and breaking away. She didn't jump out of a window in the night. She crashed through the main gate in pomp. The British took some time to realize what happened and the hunt started.

By then, the troops split the treasury and scattered(to join back again at a rendezvous). A considerable number of them weren't able to reach the rendezvous and the most prominent amongst them was a heavily injured Moropant Tambe, the Rani's father.

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Eztainutlacatl

@cbkwgl

Aug 17, 2025

One geopolitical mess which no one bothers to look into, is North Myanmar. There is a near clean demarcation between Tai, Burmese and Chin. You can ignore Chin - even till 1900, they were primitive tribes. Real deal here is the Shan and their allied Kachin.

Now, if you expand the scope out of Myanmar, you will see that there are historically two Tai nodes - one in the West, including Tai Ahom and their parent state Mongkwang, and one in the East centred around Thailand. The eastern node is not our concern.

While the border between Ahom Kingdom and Mongkwang is loosely defined and there were clashes between the both some times(Mongkwang is not actually the parent state of Tai Ahom but it was the political successor of Mong Mao, the parent state for Ahoms), the relations were

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