The term ‘racial purity’ is heavily loaded worldwide and also has a long history of misuse and misappropriation. However, the Union culture ministry soon issued a strongly worded statement refuting the report and said that it has no intention of conducting studies of racial purity in the country.
“We want to see how mutation and mixing of genes in the Indian population has happened in the last 10,000 years,” Shinde – an adjunct professor at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru, and director of a ‘Rakhigarhi Research Project’ – told The New Indian Express. According to the newspaper, the decision was the outcome of a meeting between ministry secretary Govind Mohan and archaeologist Vasant Shinde. The New Indian Express recently reported that the Union Ministry of Culture was in the process of acquiring an array of advanced DNA profiling kits for a project to trace the ‘purity’ of India’s races. More accurately, it is to track something that one is making up as one goes along, to suit their agenda. Tracing ‘purity’ is to trace something that doesn’t exist.The ministry soon issued a strongly worded statement refuting the report and said that it has no intention of conducting studies of racial purity in the country.According to the newspaper, the decision was the outcome of a meeting between ministry secretary Govind Mohan and archaeologist Vasant S.The New Indian Express recently reported that the Ministry of Culture was acquiring DNA profiling kits for a project to trace the ‘purity’ of India’s races.A crowded street in Haridwar, Uttarakhand, in March 2020.