The "Vanara" Social Structure: Forced Co-existence and Oral Memory

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The history of human evolution in South Asia is often told as a series of replacements—one group arriving and another vanishing. However, the geological and genetic record of the Narmada Valley (Sanskrit: नर्मदा, Narmadā, lit. ‘Giver of Pleasure’) suggests a far more complex “Alchemical” process. During the Pleistocene, the valley acted as a high…