Brown PunditsA Deccani miniature of a dancing girl tying her hair, Golconda, about 1700

The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself

A Divine Shadow

Brown Pundits Archive2 April 20141 min read0 comments
I saw this in a tweet (https://twitter.com/sci_phile/status/451374061642207232) but what made my jaw drop in astonishment is the most contested entry in Wikipedia Farsi.

The Shadow of the Divine, the Bab, haunts Persian still more than a century after his proclamation that he was the harbinger to the Promised One of the Ages (Baha’u’llah). Following him is the idiosyncratic Iranian worship of Hazrat Fatimah.
An interesting side note is that Macaulay succeeded it seems Wikipedia English is the default one for Desis.

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