Can Genetics help us Understand Indian Social History?

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Thapar, Romila ^a  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAUCASIAN; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; HISTORY; HUMAN; INDIA; LANGUAGE; MIGRATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

CULTURE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; INDIA; LANGUAGE; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 84908432896     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19430264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a008599     Document Type: Article

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