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BP Round-Up / Open Thread
X.T.M, in a round-up and open thread, summarises the past ten posts, including Razib Khan’s reading list, a review revisiting Somnath, Jaydeepsinh Rathod’s comments on Sanskriti and the Aryan threads.
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How to argue
X.T.M shares a guide to blog debate sent by LV, saying he is probably between steps two and three of its seven-step path.
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Beyond cultural parochialism
Razib Khan argues that centuries of Western colonialism leave moderns poorly equipped to grasp the world’s diversity, and recommends broad histories of the classical world, China, Africa, Russia, Southeast Asia,…
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The Bollywood caste
X.T.M calls Bollywood a caste of linked acting, industrial and cricketing families, mostly Punjabi and Muslim men, wonders where the Sikh men are, and argues that India’s modernisation, shaped by…
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Toxic textbooks and social engineering in Pakistan
A piece originally published at Naya Daur, citing K. K. Aziz’s The Murder of History, argues that Pakistani history and social-studies textbooks are an instrument of social engineering, and that…
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Why do Indians care about OIT/AIT
Razib Khan answers a reader asking why South Asian ancestry carries political weight, saying the cause is British colonialism and modern culture wars, and invites readers to comment.
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The water rises and Canute drowns
Razib Khan posts excerpts from an article in which the geneticist Niraj Rai says a migration into ancient India from Central Asia can no longer be refuted, while some co-authors…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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