February 2019
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Wagner and India-
Zach reflects on a Western historian taking on Indian topics, wondering if a Sikh would draw the same notice, and observes that people of colour in Western humanities are channelled…
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What to read if you don’t want to read Guha
Razib Khan asks what books on Indian history an American conservative should read instead of Ramachandra Guha’s India After Gandhi, after Kushal Mehra noted Ben Shapiro was reading it. He…
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
A standing open thread: readers are asked to keep other posts on topic and use this one for anything they like.
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Pakistani Perfidy & The Nehruvian Deep State
Zach cites a Pakistani Christian’s account of a Hindu family barred from buying a flat to argue that Pakistani minorities face everyday discrimination, and presses liberal Pakistanis to explain it.…
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On the difficulties of cross-cultural communication
Razib Khan explains that Indian English and American English can carry different implications, using ‘secularist’ as an example, and that he avoids it with Indian audiences to dodge pointless arguments.…
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BrownCast Podcast episode 15: conversations with a Carvaka
BrownCast episode 15 is a conversation with a Carvaka, hosted with Kushal Mehra. The post gives no details beyond noting the podcast had been on the patron page for nearly…
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We are all Aryans now
Drawing on a chapter he wrote for a forthcoming Indian book, the author argues that almost all South Asians are Aryans in the genetic sense, since Indo-Aryan steppe ancestry runs…
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BrownCast Podcast episode 14: conversation with a Hindu nationalist
BP Podcast episode 14 is a long conversation with a Hindu nationalist, who suggested Hindutva reading for listeners. The host says no resolution was expected: questions were clarified and disagreements…
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The ghost of empire and the origin of all repression
Responding to a New York Times op-ed on British feminism and empire, the author argues that progressive claims that binary gender was imposed on South Asians by the West are…
