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A “carvaka” perspective historicity of myth and religion
Razib Khan argues from a sceptical standpoint that Ram and Krishna, if they existed, belong to prehistory like Abraham or Zoroaster, whereas the Buddha and Mahavira are liminal figures, and…
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Open Thread
Open thread of 17 July 2018 for general discussion; readers are asked to keep other posts on topic.
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23 & Vidhi
X.T.M jokes about marrying a Pakistani, then muses on the ancestry of Sindhi Hindus from Punjabi Khatris who moved down the Indus, and on why Sindhis love Dubai.
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Bhutan
X.T.M objects to Western condescension about India and China, and to the glossing over of Bhutan’s displacement of Nepali migrants. He urges reciprocal visa rules for Western nationals and argues…
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Croatia..
X.T.M, writing after a week away at a machine-learning conference, says Croatia’s World Cup run shows a cohesive nation, that Pakistan must avoid Yugoslavia’s fate, and that he is impressed…
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Afghanistan’s History
The author gathers proposed etymologies for Afghanistan’s name, from ‘Upa-Gana-stan’ to Panini’s Ashvakana, and repeats a linked article’s claims that Pashtuns descend from Vedic tribes and that Hindu rulers and…
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Running your own analyses
Razib Khan links a tutorial for running PCA, Admixture, Treemix and pairwise Fst in one command, for technically inclined readers.
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South Asia becoming more like the Middle East (in different ways)
A news extract on the Indian government telling the Supreme Court that adultery must stay punishable to protect marriage; X.T.M adds a Channel 4 link on Pakistan and laments its…
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Ancient Ancestral South “Indians” may have roots in Southeast Asia
Razib Khan welcomes a conference report of Pleistocene gene flow from Pleistocene Southeast Asians into South Asia, arguing that Southeast Asia’s larger Last Glacial Maximum populations and the haplogroup M…
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Open Thread
Open thread of 10 July 2018 for general discussion; readers are asked to keep other posts on topic.
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,924 comments
