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Documentary on the arrival of R1a1a-Z93 to South Asia (scions of the all-father!)
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Ancient India, archaeology, etc.
Asks readers for suggestions of a book on Indian prehistory between 10,000 and 2,000 years ago, as the author has been asked to write a book chapter on the genetics…
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Open Thread
An open thread inviting readers to discuss whatever they like, asking that other posts stay on topic.
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Assam register: Four million risk losing India citizenship
Reproduces extracts of a report that four million people in Assam risk losing Indian citizenship under the NRC, with the poster’s comment that India is being too draconian on the…
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Persian Vs. Punjabi Vs. Urdu
Shares clips in which a speaker follows Persian words better in Urdu than in Punjabi mode, taking them as a sign of the divide between Punjabi popular culture and Urdu…
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Turanistan & the Scythians of India
Observes that the largest concentrations of Scythians are in the Subcontinent’s border zones, recalling that Gujjars, Kambojas, Rajputs and Jats have Scythic or Iranian associations, and that these northwestern invaders…
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Lazy Sunday – Pakistan has the best looking leader in the world now
A Sunday roundup of links on Imran Khan and Raza Rumi’s new book, with the author’s views on Pakistan’s leader, optics and hijab, a claim that Indira Gandhi was the…
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On ethnicity
The author, from a Bangladeshi Muslim family in the US, describes his parents’ 1980s social circle as mostly South Asian, mixing Bangladeshis, Indian Bengalis and other clusters across ethnolinguistic lines,…
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South Asian nationalism
Responding to a tweet about being sorry to be mistaken for Pakistani, the author says many liberal Indian Americans are highly nationalistic and switch between left-liberal and nationalist views, and…
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A Bangladeshi perspective on ethnicity
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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