Author: Razib Khan

Bengalis are not totally Burmese in their East Asian ancestry

Though Burmese are a good donor for the Tibeto-Burman in Burmese, it seems pretty clear now that I have Tibetan samples that the Bangladeshi samples are a bit more Tibetan-skewed than these Burmese samples. It may be that the early admixture into Bengal was from a Burmese population that had admixed less with the Austro-Asiatic substrate of Burma.

Note that this confirms the Austro-Asiatic populations have a totally different (more southern) East Asian ancestry source.

Bangladesh podcast # 2 -Regime Change; The Fall of Sheikh Haseena and its Consequences

It will also be on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. as well as on Libsyn and a variety of other platforms.

In this podcast we talk to two Bangladeshi expats who have been involved in recent pro-democracy activism within the BD diaspora. Dr Shafiqur Rahman is a political scientist who teaches in Vancouver. Mr Jyoti Rahman is an activist and blogger who is also an economist and a fiscal policy expert who has worked with the IMF and other institutions. We asked them about what is happening in BD and how this is likely to play out in the coming days..

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