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Just spotted in Londontown
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Bad move, HRH
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Race Stereotypes in Medieval Islam (and some lines on cousin marriage)
Irfan Muzammil, via Omar Ali, describes medieval Muslim courts’ debates on the superiority of Arabs, Persians, Greeks and Indians, including the Shuʿūbiyya movement in al-Tawhidi’s Baghdad account, and ends with…
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Rajneesh and Sheela Ambalal Patel,
Sbarrkum asks for thoughts on the Netflix series Wild Wild Country, about the Rajneeshee movement in 1980s Oregon, and notes that the real villain is Rajneesh’s secretary Ma Anand Sheela.
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Asians & Aryans
X.T.M reads a map of Asia’s great rivers: Tibet matters because its rivers feed half the world, continents are arbitrary, South Asian rivers share a source, and the Aryans are…
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India would have been a dump for crackpot science had Modi not Nehru been its first leader
X.T.M posts a ThePrint opinion piece arguing that India would have been a dump for crackpot science if Modi, not Nehru, had been its first leader, with Nehru’s scientific institutes…
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Pictures in Handles
X.T.M asks new commentators to add a picture to their handle, saying anonymity is fine but identity helps conversation, and promises pinned guidelines.
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Question of the Day?
X.T.M asks readers why Partition is seen as a bad idea but Indian independence a good one, why Jinnah is a villain but Gandhi and Nehru are not, and whether…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,922 comments
