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2019 isn’t 1999: the unipolar moment is over
After reading a book arguing that hegemons keep the peace, Razib Khan contends that the American unipolar moment is nonetheless ending, since China and India together are already about 75…
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Bangladeshis are very East Asian, Sri Lankan Tamils are not quite as structured
Razib Khan argues that Bengalis are substantially East Asian in ancestry, with little West Asian admixture even among Bengali Muslims, and that Sri Lankan Tamils are less genetically structured than…
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Green Gold in the Ummah-
X.T.M links a Facebook post, quipping that Arab powers have ‘black gold’ while Pakistan now contributes ‘green gold’.
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Passing as Black
A reproduced account of Vijay Chokal-Ingam, who said in 2015 that he posed as a black man to benefit from race-conscious medical-school admissions, and who argues that affirmative action harms…
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Ananda Coomaraswamy: The Arts and Crafts of India and Ceylon (1913)
Sbarrkum presents excerpts from Ananda Coomaraswamy’s 1913 book on the arts and crafts of India and Ceylon, with a short biography of the author, as a readable guide to the…
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Forbidden Fruit: Military and Politics in Pakistan (and beyond)
Omar Ali reposts Hamid Hussain’s 2003 essay, written as General Musharraf completed his political engineering, arguing that where political institutions are weak and there is no consensus on succession, soldiers…
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Bhadralok are made not born
Razib Khan plots two West Bengali samples, a Kayastha and a Brahmin, and finds the Kayastha resembles Bangladeshi samples with less East Asian ancestry, which supports the view that Kayasthas…
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Muslims and Urdu in India
Razib Khan plots Census 2011 data on Urdu speakers against Muslim share by state, finding the core Urdu-identified region in the Deccan and Bihar, about 30 per cent of Tamil…
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Open Thread
Open thread of 3 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
