Talk:Irula people

Negritos
I checked out some pics of the Irulas in Google images, they don't look like the Negritos, they look like any other people from South India and Sri Lanka. 80.230.162.49 (talk) 15:28, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

NPOV
Snake and rat catching, surely this sounds more of stereotyping. What value are cephalic and nasal indexes, which are somewhat outdated typographies. Wapondaponda (talk) 18:52, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

Population Figures
The population estimate of 1000 to 2000 in the Thiruvallur district directly contradicts the cited source, which places the population at closer to 25000. Jimmychalk (talk) 14:49, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
 * The first of these citations is a deadlink now and the second one says 25,000 - but is it a reliable source? YuviPanda (talk) 17:46, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I corrected it to 25 000 according to source, we must work with available data and everything indicates that their population can't possibly be that low.--2A00:1028:83CC:42D2:117C:707E:7456:10C9 (talk) 02:02, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

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Genetics
Hi, It seemed that someone linked an outdated report https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/cover-story/story/20180910-rakhigarhi-dna-study-findings-indus-valley-civilisation-1327247-2018-08-31 claiming that the irulas are the closest to the rakhigarhi sample, however,the research paper with the first ever genome from IVC area was published one year after the the above India today report. On top of that, the report claimed that the then upcoming paper was supposed to present genetic data of a male individual, sample name 'I4411' whereas the published paper https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(19)30967-5.pdf showed results of a female individual, sample name I6113. The model presented in the paper showed that genome of the rakhigarhi female sample can be modelled as being a mixture of 73% Zagrosian Iranian herder related ancestry and 27 % AHG(Andamanese Hunter gatherer i.e., the Onge people )related. Models shown here https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6822619/bin/NIHMS1053677-supplement-Table_S1-S5.xlsx for Irula model them as 39% IVC periphery Related + 57.1% AHG related. Put simple, it means that Irula have 57% excess AHG ancestry on top what was found in IVC periphery cluster. Also, a look at the table presented above shows that population like Kalash, Panta Kapu, Coorgi, Khatri etc. get much more ancestry from IVC periphery compared to Irulas. In the light of above evidence, the claim of Irulas being closest to the genome of the rakhigarhi female sample based on an outdated(and even wrong since the sample presented is completely different) report, cannot be true Thanks --Piyushkumar911 (talk) 11:11, 12 November 2021 (UTC)