India's caste system goes back 2,000 years, genetic study finds

Thursday, August 8, 2013 - 13:30 in Biology & Nature

The caste system in South Asia — which rigidly separates people into high, middle and lower classes — may have been firmly entrenched by about 2,000 years ago, a new genetic analysis suggests.

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