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What Likely hood of Rajputs and Jats being Harappa + Scythians Tajiks Afghans and Gilgit Balti people being Harappa + Kushana or Harappa + Kushana + Hunic/Turkic

Iranian speaking European looking people invaded India but instead of imposing their language and culture got completely assimilated. Scythian + Harappan WSH + EHG + ANE + WSHG + IHG + InHG Since mixing was entirely happening in India the main source ancestry was Harappan. Since more and more...

Steppe people that did move or migrated or invaded India were post 600bce. SWAT valley iron age Indo-Aryan could very well be an ancestor of these later steppe invaders and not Indo-Aryan as in the Vedic people. That would be a tight slap on some faces.

Indo-Scythian 150bce-400ce The Indo-Scythians were named "Shaka" in India, an extension on the name Saka used by the Persians to designate Scythians. Shakas receive numerous mentions in texts like the Puranas, the Manusmriti, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, the Mahabhasiya of Patanjali, the...

Understanding the role Scythians played in genetic and material history of India. Scythians were a group of eastern Iranian speaking tribes but if we look at their ancestry: A genetic study published in Nature in May 2018 examined the remains of twenty-eight Sakas buried between ca. 900 BC to...