Update: Please do not take the labels below (e.g., “Baloch”) as literal ancestral elements. The most informative way to read them is that they indicate populations where this element is common, and, the relationship of proportions can tell us something. The literal proportion does not usually tell us much.
End Update
I was browsing the Harappa results, and two new things jumped out at me. Zack now has enough St. Thomas Christian samples from Kerala that I think we need to accept as the likely model that this community does not derive from the Brahmins of Kerala, as some of them claim. Their genetic profile is rather like many non-Brahmin South Indians, except the Nair, who have a peculiar attested history with the Brahmins of their region.
But that’s not the really interesting finding. Below is a table I constructed from Zack’s data.
Ethnicity
Language
S.Indian
Baloch
Caucasian
NE.Euro
Karnataka Brahmin
Dravidian
47%
38%
4%
6%
Karnataka Hebbar Iyengar Brahmin
Dravidian
49%
36%
5%
5%
Karnataka Iyengar
Dravidian
48%
39%
3%
5%
Karnataka Iyengar Brahmin
Dravidian
48%
37%
3%
7%
Karnataka Kannada Brahmin
Dravidian
51%
35%
3%
5%
Karnataka Konkani Brahmin
Dravidian
47%
37%
2%
6%
Kerala Brahmin
Dravidian
43%
39%
4%
6%
Tamil Brahmin
Dravidian
46%
40%
3%
6%
Tamil Brahmin
Dravidian
47%
40%
3%
5%
Tamil Brahmin
Dravidian
48%
39%
9%
4%
Tamil Brahmin
Dravidian
47%
38%
6%
4%
Tamil Brahmin
Dravidian
48%
37%
6%
5%
Tamil Brahmin
Dravidian
48%
37%
3%
5%
Tamil Brahmin
Dravidian
48%
35%
5%
6%
Tamil Brahmin Iyengar
Dravidian
47%
38%
6%
4%
Tamil Brahmin Iyengar
Dravidian
47%
35%
6%
6%
Tamil Brahmin Iyengar
Dravidian
50%
35%
2%
8%
Tamil Brahmin iyer/iyengar
Dravidian
48%
38%
2%
5%
Tamil Brahmin iyer/iyengar
Dravidian
48%
38%
4%
5%
Tamil Brahmin iyer/iyengar
Dravidian
47%
37%
2%
5%
Tamil Brahmin iyer/iyengar
Dravidian
47%
37%
6%
8%
Bengali Brahmin
IE
43%
35%
4%
10%
Bengali Brahmin
IE
45%
35%
2%
11%
Bengali Brahmin
IE
44%
35%
5%
11%
Bihari Brahmin
IE
39%
38%
5%
11%
Maharashtra/Madhya Pradesh Saraswat Brahmin
IE
47%
39%
1%
6%
Mahrashtrian Desastha Brahmin
IE
46%
38%
8%
5%
Oriya Brahmin
IE
47%
36%
0%
9%
Punjabi Brahmin
IE
33%
41%
13%
10%
Punjabi Brahmin
IE
35%
40%
8%
11%
Rajasthani Brahmin
IE
32%
38%
9%
15%
Sindhi Pushtikar/Pushkarna Brahmin
IE
31%
36%
12%
10%
UP Brahmin
IE
37%
38%
2%
14%
UP Brahmin
IE
41%
37%
7%
11%
I was curious about the distribution of the …