SV: [Y-Indology] Explaining discontinuities in culture

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Besides the fact that in the first millennium AD, numerous invaders

like Shakas etc. were admitted into the Indian society as Kshatriyas,

there is an additional factor that is often overlooked. Hindu Khatris

in Punjab often married Central Asian women because of their beauty.

The practice continued even after the Central Asians became Muslims,

and the women probably became Hindu. In fact, the practice was so

widespread and it so revolted the Islamic sensibilities of Emperor

Jehangir (In Islam, Kafir women can become concubines of Muslim men

or full fledged wives upon conversion to Islam but Muslim women

cannot have any physical relationship or marital relationship with

Kafir men under the pain of death) that he issued orders that either

the Hindu families must abandon these women who were muslims or these

families must convert to Islam. It is recorded in chronicles that

about 400 Hindu families chose to convert to Islam rather than throw

out their wives/daughter in laws on the streets.

 

VA

 

INDOLOGY, Lars Martin Fosse <lmfosse@o...> wrote:

> naga_ganesan@h... [sMTP:naga_ganesan@h...] skrev 18. mai 2001

> 19:46:

> > I recall that Lars Martin once mentioned about Brahmins

> > with dark skin color recorded even in old times.

> > The gene flow must have been a two way path, Manu

> > records the one way he likes to have.

>

> If I remember the debate on AIT correctly, the point was that a

number of

> "indigenous" non-Aryan notables were coopted into the Aryan fold,

in other