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Things you can operate, not just read.
Every instrument here runs on the platform’s own data and shows its limits while you use it. None of them asks you to take a conclusion on trust.
Five instruments, four ways into the evidence. Everything listed on this page is published and reachable now.
The map
where the objects were found
The Atlas is the largest instrument: sites, object classes, events, trade routes and modelled movement on one rotatable field. It opens south-up on purpose, states where north is, and marks which entries carry a linked source record and which do not.
Instruments
the data is real, the gaps are visible
The Endogamy ClockWhen the mixing stopped, on the genome’s own clock, with the interval the estimate actually carries.What a word for “foreigner” did nextFollow one word through the corpus and watch its target change.The MechanismA reading method: ask who benefits from a critique, and see what it leaves standing.Āraṇya — the elsewhereThe forest as the Sanskrit record’s outside, read stratum by stratum.
Evidence and indexes
what is claimed, and what it rests on
The LedgerClaims with their evidence, their counter-evidence and what would change them — no argument wrapped around them.SourcesWhat the platform has read, at what level of access, and what it has not.Research IndexEvery page on the platform, grouped, with held pages marked and filterable.SearchEvery page by title, heading, subject and body text. Diacritics fold, so “brahmi” finds “Brāhmī”.
Looking for the authored arguments instead? The exhibits are here.
Newly integrated exhibits
twenty-six research pages
Two waves of men arrived. The people beneath both are in the hills, carrying the oldest lineages on the subcontinent.If caste were a Hindu doctrine, leaving Hinduism would end it. Millions of people have run that experiment.The government reports that no manual scavengers exist, and reports the deaths in the same reply.A religion born in Bihar, dominant for a thousand years, and almost entirely gone from India by 1300.One woman, buried at Rakhigarhi around 2500 BCE, with no steppe ancestry. What was done to that fact, in seven stages.The same catastrophe ended both orders. The monks were back within a generation. The nuns were not.Hindutva defined a Hindu as one whose fatherland and holy land are both India. The genome puts the Vedic fatherland on the steppe.It was not three expansions. It is one pattern, five thousand years long, and it has not stopped.Eleven million people speak a language their fathers brought and their mothers never spoke.The oldest large stone figures in India are not Vedic gods and not buddhas. They are tree spirits.The Ājīvikas left no documents. The land grants survive in tens of thousands, because a tax-free title is worth keeping.India had a school that denied gods, karma and scripture. We know it only from the books written to destroy it.The oldest lineages on earth survive on the land nobody wanted.Eighty-one per cent of Tamil male lineages are indigenous, and castes and tribes carry the same ones.Every caste's maternal lineages are old, local and shared. Only the men were sorted.A Dravidian language is spoken in Balochistan. It shares 191 roots with Tamil.The two largest Indus cities are in Pakistan. So is the oldest farming village. Nobody there is sequencing them.The ancestry that links Elam and the Indus was herding goats in the Zagros before farming reached either.A community used to model the Indus woman’s deep ancestry catches snakes for a living, and was told none of this.The genome dates the sealing to two thousand years ago. The survey data says it has not opened.India built genomic data sovereignty. It gave it to the state.Someone took a chisel to their name. The cuts were too deep to remove.Four thousand inscriptions. Average length, five signs. Not one sign has been deciphered.Two archaeologists dug at Rakhigarhi. One got a national museum. The other got transferred four times.Sixty-one skeletons gave one genome, by physics. Thirteen thousand artefacts gave "nothing," by decision.A community of five million people descends from about a hundred.