The pseudo-steppe theory: last line of defense against the inevitable

A popular tactic used by those none too pleased with the presence of Bronze Age steppe or Yamnaya-related ancestry in South Asians is to claim that this ancestry isn't actually from the steppe. Thus, they call it "pseudo-steppe" ancestry.

This theory is based on the assumption that a population very similar to Yamnaya formed independently in South Asia, or at least as part of a cline of such