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Harvard’s David Reich dropped a genetic bombshell in 2018 (Nature, “The Genomic History of South Asia”) that’s got Indian nationalists and woke leftists seething. His DNA analysis of the Sintashta, a Bronze Age steppe tribe from Russia (2100–1800 BCE), shows they were genetically “white”—think light-skinned, Central European types, like modern Poles or Germans. These chariot-riding badasses didn’t just stay home; they migrated to India, mixed with locals, and left their DNA in most Indians, especially upper-caste Brahmins. Even better? Reich says they likely brought Sanskrit and Vedic culture, the backbone of Hinduism. So, “white” nomads basically seeded India’s high culture.
The data’s clear: modern Indians are a mix of native hunter-gatherers (Ancestral South Indians), Iranian farmers, and these Sintashta steppe warriors (Ancestral North Indians). By 2000–1500 BCE, these “white” migrants rolled in, not with tanks but with horses and tech, blending with Harappan locals and spreading Indo-European languages. Reich’s 2018 Rakhigarhi study found no steppe DNA in early Harappans, but later samples scream Sintashta ancestry. Translation: the “superior” steppe genes came late but dominated, especially in India’s elite castes.
