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**HedgeYourBets** · 08-17-2010, 01:41 AM

I don't know if haplogroups could be mixed in here, but L and R2 are probably the two strongest candidates for ancient Dravidian speakers that lived in the Indus region, if you go to Southeast India today R2 is very strong there among Telugu populations.

Some Indian poster here (JoshK) and other old user (Iyengar) used to argue the purest racial Dravidians were the Indo-European Northwestern Lower Castes in India (but not Pariahs). These people usually look Dark caucasoid, even if some have Aboriginal ancestry, that's not their predominant ancestry.

If you ask me, it sounds likely to me.

08-17-2010, 01:41 AM	#16
HedgeYourBets Join Date Aug 2008 Posts 4,655 Senior Member	I don't know if haplogroups could be mixed in here, but L and R2 are probably the two strongest candidates for ancient Dravidian speakers that lived in the Indus region, if you go to Southeast India today R2 is very strong there among Telugu populations. Some Indian poster here (JoshK) and other old user (Iyengar) used to argue the purest racial Dravidians were the Indo-European Northwestern Lower Castes in India (but not Pariahs). These people usually look Dark caucasoid, even if some have Aboriginal ancestry, that's not their predominant ancestry. If you ask me, it sounds likely to me.
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