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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | 122 scientists, academicians criticise project to reportedly study ‘racial purity’ of Indians

122 scientists, academicians criticise project to reportedly study ‘racial purity’ of Indians

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published Published on Jun 11, 2022   modified Modified on Jun 13, 2022

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The Union culture ministry claimed that the news report about the study was misleading and that it was not related to establishing ‘genetics history’.

Several scientists, historians, writers, former bureaucrats and others on Friday wrote to the Ministry of Culture to express concern over a report claiming that the ministry was funding a project to “trace the purity of races in India”.

In the open letter, the signatories said that the notion of tracing the “purity of races, whether in India or elsewhere, is extremely worrisome”.

“A plan to do so would be both absurd and dangerous,” the letter, signed by 122 persons, said. “It is absurd because the concept of biological races was discarded long ago.”

The signatories include geneticist and statistician Partha P Majumder, biologists Amitabh Joshi, LS Shashidhara, Satyajit Mayor, Raghavendra Gadagkar, historians Romila Thapar and Ramchandra Guha, among others.

The letter came two weeks after a media report had claimed that the culture ministry was in the process to acquire DNA profiling kits and related machines to establish “the genetic history and trace the purity of races in India”.

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