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Caste is old -- really old. It was emphatically not the creation of the English colonists, but something that emerged thousands of years ago. The high castes, who oppressed and exploited the low castes, are not originally from India -- they came down from the steppes.

When we look at the genetic origins of the caste, in the North they overwhelmingly from the Caspian Steppes. The Dalits, the untouchable mass of serfs, are what remain of the indigenous people of Northern India.

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Caste is old -- really old. It was emphatically not the creation of the English colonists, but something that emerged thousands of years ago. The high castes, who oppressed and exploited the low castes, are not originally from India -- they came down from the steppes.

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This guy seems to be ignorant about anything related to the Indus script, information theory and academic publishing and is probably fishing for engagement but since it's a big account, its a good opportunity to explain the lay of the land. Publishing inconsequential papers is actually very easy and generally quick. About 40% of papers get zero citations. The more consequential the paper, the more thorough and bulletproof it needs to be. There are unimaginable number of objections reviewers can come up with and most reviewers and journals are extremely uncomfortable with papers that challenge the status quo even slightly. They would prefer to reject a paper than having to retract it. A good example is the Heggerty paper, which had to get 100 linguists to work for 4 years to create the IE-cor database. Even so, the paper went to and fro for several months of negotiation. And what groundbreaking thing did it do? Just made PIE a couple of millennia older. And even after publishing, it's conclusions are rejected by the main schools of thought. The impact was equivalent to a preprint. Of all the subjects in the world, the Indus script is the most difficult to publish on. As Gregory Possehl put it: "Deciphering the Indus script is a field strewn with the wreckage of careers". Steven Bonta, a double PhD in linguistics, claimed that he can publish on any subject except the Indus script. It is just impossible. Something he has been working on for decades. Here, our uncle Saffron is complaining that I haven't published in a relatively shorter timeframe, which is simply showcasing his ignorance as analysis. This is a very difficult arena and requires a very special strategy. That's all you need to know for now.