This post was made because phreakv asked for references which I’ve duly provided. The post is on point and I don’t see any reason to modify it.
If it’s considered irrelevant as a reply, consider it review of my book.
Now I’ll tackle the 1st point here.
- I’ll restrict myself to Thangaraj and Gyaneshwar Chaubey alone. There are multiple other reviews, articles written by geneticists, scientists including (Anand Ranganathan, Anil Kumar Suri, Abhijit Chavda and numerous others) that question the claims made by Joseph.
You can look at the categorical sweeping claim made here.
The actual refutation by Thangaraj & Chaubey is captured here.
The silent backtrack from the sweeping claim by Joseph is here.
And the claim that Rakhigarhi studies might just hold the key as recorded by Joseph led only to this.
And we need to keep in mind that genetics might not hold key to history as well due to cremation practised large scale and also archaeological studies of Ganga civilization tell their own story too.