NOTE: I kept saying "Steppes were the Indus valley civilisation",,,it was a bad slip of the tongue which i realised and corrected at 42:30:8
CORRECTION RE INDUS VALLEY:
The Ancient South Asian and Iranian lineage made up the Indus valley civilisation: they were farmers who erected the irrigation system we still use in Pakistan. The Steppes came after the civilisation had already declined and mixed with the post Harappan population. The central Asians scythians, kashanas, steppes etc brought the weapons and leather boots and sherwanis and tunics and shalwars.
As mentioned in the podcast Modern Pakistanis carry a genetic mix dominated by Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC) ancestry and Bronze Age Indo-Aryan Steppe ancestry, combined with deep indigenous South Asian roots. Instead of a single uniform identity, the DNA of present-day Pakistanis is .
This podcast is mainly about understanding how myths and misinformation get created and passed around and how linguistic evolution blurs real history, predominantly focusing on the Subcontinent, the ancient Indian Civilisation and the Steppes vs the Persian origins of clothes, dishes etc and how they all morphed and then got dumbed down to Persian influence or Ethnic Indian.