Dear Shivraj,
Re: your post at
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/64610
I cannot do again all the research made by historians for you. Please take your time and go through the many published books and articles dealing with the topic of Greek, Saka, Parthian, Huna etc. invasions of NW South Asia in the early historical period. You will then see that many of those *foreign* ('mlechchha') invaders, coming from across the Hindu Kush, became settled in India and were soon absorbed into the Hindu caste system as kshatriyas. If they were not, that's because they were already Buddhist before invading South Asia, or had become Buddhist soon after they had settled there. When Buddhism vanished from India, however, the descendants of these originally foreign kshatriyas were absorbed into the Hindu caste system as the most part of formerly Buddhist social groups. In either case, the genetic imprint of those foreign invaders is still present -- though admittedly in a small amount -- in modern South Asian populations, including Hindu populations of India (i.e., not only among the Muslims of India or Pakistan!). See, just as a starter, the following books:
http://tinyurl.com/nqscd7
http://tinyurl.com/ncm72b
http://tinyurl.com/lgwbl8
(read carefully the pages from 126 to130)
http://tinyurl.com/nokzwo
(read carefully the pages from 133 to 140)
http://tinyurl.com/ntxm2y
etc.
Moreover, my argument about Hindu females having been raped by male foreigners such as Greeks, Sakas, Parthians, Hunas, and finally Afghan and Turk Muslims in course of many centuries, and having subsequently born children who were placed in the caste of their respective mothers, does not require intermarriage between caste Hindus and 'mlechchhas' -- just an imposed coitus and the following procreative act. This has ever happened throughout the world since prehistory every time foreign warriors or soldiers subjugated a native population among whom they had settled as rulers; why should Hindu India represent an exception to this constant of human history? Note that this is another way, alternative to intermarriage, to expand foreign genes into a native population,
This, I urge you to do your homework and stop running after me by joining all the Lists I have a membership in to polemicize with me!
Regards,
Francesco