A new book challenges the link between ancient Indian society and the Vedas

Read it and follow up on the citations if you want to learn more about yourself and your ancestors

Where do we actually come from and who were our ancestors? This has always been a loaded question. The answers are sometimes creation myths and sometimes narratives driven by bigotry and racism. But as science has advanced, it has started throwing up more definitive answers and some of those may be unpalatable.

This book takes a dispassionate look at the implications of a series of recent genetic studies that prove, beyond reasonable doubt, that the Aryans were latecomers to the subcontinent. It will rouse the ire of Hindu supremacists who base claims of India’s cultural exceptionalism on an assumption that the