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    Posted: 02-Mar-2013 at 23:45
I heard genetically south east Asian groups like Burmese, Thai, Cambodians and even vietnamese are 10-20% related to Indians genetically. I guess this may explain their tanned skin

their facial features also have some (indian) looks to them

















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  Quote pdtoler Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 03-Mar-2013 at 10:34
By Indian, do you mean South Asian or Native American?
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Balochii, if you read up on the various states of Southeast that existed prior to the Vietnamese march south, you will see that all had Indian merchants resident in them, and all claimed descent from various Indian founders. Even the Cham peoples, who could be found in southern Central Vietnam as late as the 1800s. 

While there may be some genetic Indian contributions to the modern inhabitants of SEA, it helps to remember that India is a culture shared by many 'races' within the sub-continent, and had a lasting influence on Burma, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand, all either descended from Indianized states, or conquerors of the same who adopted much from the Indianized states they conquered. Mon-Khmers and Malay also have dark skins.


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  Quote balochii Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 03-Mar-2013 at 15:55
Originally posted by pdtoler

By Indian, do you mean South Asian or Native American?


south asian, since the area is pretty close to India anyways
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  Quote Nick1986 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 03-Mar-2013 at 19:41
Judging by the food, they were probably descended from both Chinese and Indian ancestors
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  Quote balochii Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 03-Mar-2013 at 20:25
^ and yeah their clothing is also very similar
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  Quote oxydracae Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 04-Mar-2013 at 11:10
No doubt.. South East Asia was a part of Greater India..
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  Quote Nick1986 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 04-Mar-2013 at 20:46
Originally posted by oxydracae

No doubt.. South East Asia was a part of Greater India..

It depends on the region. The Pathans have light skin like Europeans, many low-caste Indians have black skin and curly hair, and there are Indians living near the Himalayas who look similar to Chinese
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  Quote lirelou Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 05-Mar-2013 at 00:37
In re:  "Judging by the food, they were probably descended from both Chinese and Indian ancestors"

Probably why the French called it Indochina. The Chinese had long contacts in the area, but the majority of people of Chinese descent probably date back to the 17th Century when the Ming empire fell, and those merchant Chinese who followed in after.

See: Mac Cuu (google). A good survey can be found in:  Water Frontier, Commernce and the Chinese in the Lower Mekong Region, 1750 - 1880, published by the NUS Press, Nola Cooke and Li Tana, editors.
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Dark skin was probably an adaptation for the climate. Most of the people have lived there for millenia and have large later Chinese migrations (Thailand and Vietnam) and small bits of Indian migrations.

Kalinga i.e modern Orissa from at least 200 BC had a tradition of peaceful merchant activity into these areas and many settlements were made. (Bali yatra)

Tamil (Cholas) were a more predatory people who in the 10th century pirated the Kalinga vessels and also established military control of these areas of French Indo China and Jawa 

This effectively destroyed the peaceful trading activities of the Kalinga people. Tamil pirates continued their activities diminishing the Kalinga influence and after the decline of the Chola empire the entire system of peaceful trade diminished.

It was then taken over by the Arab and Portugese traders. Which is why these places have large Muslim communities now (Indonesia has the largest number of muslims in the world)


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  Quote Hukumari Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29-May-2013 at 21:47
Originally posted by pdtoler

By Indian, do you mean South Asian or Native American?


What does it matter? There are Indian Amerindians....and a lot especially among Inca, Quechua and Lupaca of Aymara.
Please have a look at Tompullo 2. They even have Indian Y DNA L like in Egyin Gol cemetery.
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2156/13/30
Read it well and profoundly, but it will take many months!





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A recent study has shown a major Genetic input to the aboriginal population of Australia from India around 2000 BC---around the time the Indus Saraswathy Civilization collapsed and Vedic people (Mittani and Hitties) started appearing in the middle east.

That means Indian ships reached Australia back then. Which is not surprising as India was propably the only country then with that kind of a naval capability. Remember, they had the worlds first naval dock built of 1 million bricks and maintained colonies in Dilmun , Magan etc 

The relevance of this to the present discussion is that the study also showed that the Dingo was introduced into Australia along with tools and agriculture technology by these immigrants.

Now, it is known however that the Dingo is more closely related to South East asian wild Dog populations than to the Indian wild dog which is not possible had these migrants not been to SE Asia.And if they reached down under, they must also have reached SE Asia easily

Also Brahmi inscriptions have been found in Indonesia as early as 300 BC. So the cultural conntacts are very old.

So its not surprising that there may be a small genetic input in Isolated pockets, but not prominent enough to figure in  many papers I ran through


Lothal Naval dock 2800--1900 BC

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  Quote Cryptic Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 08-Jun-2013 at 10:53

Anecdotally, I have noticed that some Cambodians have distinctly Indian features (not necessarily australoid) and do not resemble other east asians.

Originally posted by SuryaVajra

A recent study has shown a major Genetic input to the aboriginal population of Australia from India around 2000 BC---around the time the Indus Saraswathy Civilization collapsed and Vedic people (Mittani and Hitties) started appearing in the middle east. 

The relevance of this to the present discussion is that the study also showed that the Dingo was introduced into Australia along with tools and agriculture technology by these immigrants.
What agriculture are you referring to?  My impression is that the indigenous australians were solely hunter gatherers and that while some groups may have made use of incidental agriculture (cutting or burning certain areas to encourage a particular wild plant that was edible), none of the aboriginal Australians were agricultural in the true sense of the word. 
Originally posted by SuryaVajra

A recent study has shown a major Genetic input to the aboriginal population of Australia from India around 2000 BC---around the time the Indus Saraswathy Civilization collapsed and Vedic people (Mittani and Hitties) started appearing in the middle east. 

The relevance of this to the present discussion is that the study also showed that the Dingo was introduced into Australia along with tools
What tools are you referring to?  My impression is that the entire tool kit of the aboriginal australians (atlatls, throwing sticks - later made into more sophisticated boomerangs, fishing lures, and other stone tools) was brought to the area by the first australians.
 
I dont think the Australians had any substantial contact (there was sporadic contact between New Guineans and some aboriginal Australians in the far north) with other peoples following their settlement of Australia until the European contact.    


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I have highlighted certain notable points for your ease.

Dingo

The first colonists would thus have needed boats to cross some narrow seas in order to settle this land. But since their ancestors would have required similar craft to cross Bab el Mandeb, no technological improvement would have been required for them to do so.

Dr Pugach, however, also discovered something else. There is a pattern of SNPs in aboriginal Australians that is not found in people from New Guinea or the Philippines. But it is found in some Indians—particularly from the southern part of the subcontinent. That discovery both meshes with the Y-chromosome data and enriches it, because the pattern of the SNP data meant that she and her colleagues could calculate when the Indian genes (and thus the Indians who carried them) arrived in Australia.

The answer is 141 generations ago. Allowing 30 years a generation, that yields a date of 2217BC. Obviously, this is not a precise date. But it is probably good to within a century or two. And that is interesting for two reasons. One is that the 23rd century BC is slap-bang in the middle of the period when Indian civilisation was emerging. The other is that it coincides with a shift in both the culture of Australia and the composition of the continent’s wildlife.

The bronze-age Indus valley civilisation, which reached its peak of development between 2600BC and 1900BC, is less well-known to outsiders than its contemporaries in China and the Middle East, partly because no one has managed to translate its written records. But it was no less successful, and it led—just as those two other areas did—to an urban culture that resonates today.

One technology it managed to develop was seaworthy ships, rather than mere boats, and Indus valley states used them to trade with their Middle Eastern neighbours. Such ships could have provided the means to get to Australia, either deliberately or by accident, for by then the sea had risen close to its modern level.



The shift in Australian life came in three ways that can be seen today. One was that tools changed. It was not a case of metalworking being introduced, so an organised expedition of settlers from one of the Indus valley states can probably be ruled out. Rather, aboriginal culture, which had hitherto depended on the large and relatively crude stone tools of the palaeolithic, suddenly started using the smaller and finer ones of the neolithic. Whether the new arrivals did not know how to work metal, or merely lacked the equipment or sources of ore to do so, remains to be established.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/01/15/article-2262843-16F5BDED000005DC-853_634x651.jpg

The second shift was gastronomic. Sadly, the archaeological record has yet to reveal tandoori ovens or fossilised chapatis in Australia. But it does show changes at this time in the ways that cycad nuts—an important crop that Australians had long cultivated by the “fire-stick” method of burning vegetation that competes with the trees that bear them—were processed. Such nuts contain toxins. After about 2000BC several methods for removing these toxins, such as leaching them out with water and fermenting them away, spread through Australia. To this day, cycad nuts are familiar food in Kerala, in southern India. There, they are detoxified by being dried in the sun or by the fireside.

The third thing that arrived in Australia at this time was the dingo. The origin of these wild dogs, which are believed to have outcompeted and exterminated the native thylacine (also known as the Tasmanian tiger, because it lingered into modern times on that dingo-free island), has always been obscure, though their resemblance to certain breeds found in India is well known. Dr Pugach’s discovery suggests they may have come directly, on board ship. However, the existence of similar dogs in New Guinea and parts of South-East Asia complicates that explanation.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21016700

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21569688-genetic-evidence-suggests-four-millennia-ago-group-adventurous-indians


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  Quote Cryptic Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 10-Jun-2013 at 17:39

If metal objects or forges were to be found in Australia, I could accept the theory.  I, however, cant imagine that extensive contacts occurred with out either transmitting metallurgy to the indigenous peoples, or the Indian colonists establishing metal producing capabilites in Australia.

Also, lets look at what other technologies the Indians would have had, yet for some reason did not transmit to the indigenous Australians:
-Agriculture
-Bows
-Pottery
-early forms of writing
 
Then factor in that Indian languages were not transmitted either (usually the more technologicaly advanced culture imposes their language to varying degrees on the colonized area.
 
As for Dingos, I can see them originating in India, and then being brought / traded to Malaysia, Indonesia and then New Guinea. They were then introduced to Australia by New Guineans. 


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Re:
Also, lets look at what other technologies the Indians would have had, yet for some reason did not transmit to the indigenous Australians:
-Agriculture
-Bows
-Pottery
-early forms of writing

Nothing about DNA?
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  Quote lirelou Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 10-Jun-2013 at 22:30
Being descended from a people who came from what today is India over four thousand years ago does not guarantee that they had any Indian culture. Do not the Andaman islanders inhabit 'India'.
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  Quote Cryptic Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11-Jun-2013 at 11:27
Originally posted by lirelou

Being descended from a people who came from what today is India over four thousand years ago does not guarantee that they had any Indian culture. Do not the Andaman islanders inhabit 'India'.
There is a key difference:
 
- Surya contends that an advanced Indus valley culture that would have possessed pottery, metallury, agriculture etc. made contact with Australia, yet they did not trasmit any of those things to the Australians.
 
- He does not appear to be contending:  A group of hunter gathers from what is today India made contact with other hunter gathers in what is today Australia.  Pottery, agriculture etc were not transmitted.
Originally posted by SuryaVajra

The answer is 141 generations ago. Allowing 30 years a generation, that yields a date of 2217BC. Obviously, this is not a precise date. But it is probably good to within a century or two.
These numbers seem off.   30 years / generation is the modern ratio in industrialized societies.  This ratio has only existed for at most, 100 years.
 
For most of human history, the ratio was probably say  20 years / generation or even 15 years / generation (it was very common to marry young and girls, post puberty, were considered ready for marriage and children).
 
Thus, if the DNA was transmitted by Indians and transmitted 141 generations ago, the transmission could well have occurred much later.
Originally posted by Hukumari


Nothing about DNA?
Perhaps the presence of the DNA has another explanation, or it has been misinterpreted as to when it was transmitted?


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If metal objects or forges were to be found in Australia, I could accept the theory.  I, however, cant imagine that extensive contacts occurred with out either transmitting metallurgy to the indigenous peoples, or the Indian colonists establishing metal producing capabilites in Australia.




While the discovery of such forges would have been a strong archaeological evidence, the absence of the same evidence does not disprove the stated.

What are the chances that a group of migrants( notably small in comparison to the native population) who end up down under , could discover copper deposits ?( Vedic India entered Iron age around 1800 BC, much before most of the world)

Just think about it ! They probably landed in Western Australia---mostly desert or Grassland region.
They had not come prepared for causing a revolution in Australia. They may very well have had little metal implements in their ships. To expect them to find Australia's metal deposits is fastidious.

Originally posted by Cryptic

Then factor in that Indian languages were not transmitted either (usually the more technologicaly advanced culture imposes their language to varying degrees on the colonized area.


Is it that easy to spread languages? The spread of languages or major linguistic indications as you describe it can happen only as a consequence of prolonged and potent military conquest or intense religious diffusion.

The Roma Gypsies did not help in spreading Indian languages(though their speech remains commendably Romani Indo Aryan despite extraneous linguistic permeation to varying degrees). Compare the migrants to Australia with the Roma and not with conquerors. The Gypsies introduced Gun powder, Indian scientific/classical music, the Guitar and perhaps even perhaps wagon warfare(predecessor of tank warfare) under the Czech Jan Zikka ( as part of the Hussite war).

The Hittite and Mittani Vedic Aryans were more advanced than their middle eastern subjects in many respects. But despite this their language was wiped out of use ( The Assyrians between 1200 BCE and 900 BCE forcibly attacked the use of Hurrian leading to its extinction).

Mind you, they forcibly thrust themselves in their thousands into the middle East and yet their language survived only so far as their power survived.

How then can you expect a weak bunch of immigrants to introduce a new language on an entire indigenous population ?


Originally posted by Cryptic

Also, lets look at what other technologies the Indians would have had, yet for some reason did not transmit to the indigenous Australians:
-Agriculture
-Bows
-Pottery
-early forms of writing



If you assume they should necessarily have started off from India with a view to colonize other lands and would have packed their bags with Indian seeds and plant specimens-- yes you have a point. But what if they had no seeds left at their arrival. What if they were half starved ? However the sudden change in food processing as comparable to Indian techniques is a related development as I have already quoted.

Bows? You mean bows and arrows? What in the world for would you carry bows in a boat? I dont think Indians practiced bow fishing.

Pottery. Sorry, I have nothing pertinent to add as regards Pottery. Point ceded.

Early forms of writing.  Ah my favorite. While no evidence of Vedic Saraswathy script ( commonly called as Indus script ) have been identified in Australia, there is undeniable evidence that Vedic people did reach Easter Islands.

http://www.newsnfo.co.uk/images%202/indus%20valley%20and%20Easter_island_script%20similarities%20123.jpg


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It doesn't end there.

The ancient seafarers may have even reached North America.
The similarities between the Vedic( mostly south Indian and Sri Lankan) and Mayan civilizations,-- astronomy,architecture, pantheon,linguistics mythology, artistic motifs and symbolism --are too bog to be dismissed as coincidences. I am particularly impressed that the Mayan calendar began with a date around 3112 B.C.,v ery close to the Hindu traditional beginning of the Kali age viz.,3102 B.C

I cannot elaborate on all the points . However I wish to share a most intriguing artistic motif in Mayan history



We all know there are no elephants in the Americas. Isn't it surprising in Mayan country, such as this one in Copan. It may be a reminder of the elephants in India.

Eminent scholar-writers like
Mackenzie, Hewitt, Tod, Pococke and
Mrs. Nuttal have collected plenty of data to show
that ancient American civilizations
were influenced by Old World civilizations. We have
to remember that the
post-Columbus history of America for 300 years was
the story of ruthless destruction
and fanatics like Bishop Diego da Landa burnt a huge
bonfire of valuable documents
and nothing but the three codices of 'Chilam Balam'
could survive the holocaust.


More serious efforts to connect the ancient American civilizations with
those of ancient India have to be made.
The Trans-Pacific contacts of the people of south-east Asia with the
people of ancient America have been
established beyond doubt. It is also a well-proven fact of history that
Indians of ancient times were great
sea-farers. In pre-Mahabharata era(3102  BCE)as well as in the subsequent period,
the kings of southern India possessed
large fleets used for trade with the Arabian and European countries
where Indian merchandise was much in
demand. India's links with south-east Asia and other far-off islands of
the Pacific Ocean are an established fact
of history. The conquest of Malaya by Rajendra Chola, the story of
Buddhagupta the Great Sailor
(Mahanavik), the religious expeditions of Indians to preach the gospel
of Buddhism in the distant lands of
Cambodia, Annam, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Japan, Korea, Mongolia
and China are proofs of the impact
of Indian culture.



You may read the complete complete comparisons in these sites

http://www.indiadivine.org/audarya/hinduism-forum/183815-world-vedic-vedic-culture-maya-civilization-mexico.html

http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.in/2011/05/more-connections-between-ancient-india.html


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Why can't it be a Tapir, an animal the Mayans certainly were familiar with. Likewise, are we to presume that all the underworld characters depicted in Mayan art actually existed?
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