January 2019
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1857: The Central Indian Campaign
A chapter from Major Amin’s history of the Sepoy Rebellion on the Central India campaign of 1857 to 1859. He argues that it covered the widest area and took the…
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Notes on Brown Pundits “BrownCast”
Razib Khan previews two upcoming BrownCast interviews, with Josiah Neeley on Trump-era politics and with Carl Zha, invites questions, and tells patrons that the episodes are available early on the…
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Indian Numismatics Browncast Podcast Coming Up –
Zack previews his podcast with the numismatist Mohit Kapoor on Indian coinage, calling it concise, well structured and full of new material, with something for Mughal and Gupta enthusiasts. He…
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The Balto-Slavic & Indo-Iranian Connection
Reviewing a paper on Northwest Indian populations, the author argues that high steppe ancestry among Rors and Jats puts the source of Indo-Aryan ancestry in Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh,…
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
Open thread, 22 January 2019, thanking donors to the Patreon and saying patrons will have a say in the direction of the podcast and, to some extent, the blog.
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Brownpundits- Episode 8. The Glass Bead Game (and the decline of Western Civ)
Omar talks to the poet Charles Cameron and Professor Ali Minai, who works on complex systems and AI and also writes Urdu poetry, about Hermann Hesse’s Glass Bead Game, poetry,…
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The hammer of the All-Father
Responding to a New York Times Magazine piece on David Reich’s ancient DNA research, the author says its theme is the clash between oral traditions and genetic history, as in…
