March 2019
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Religious change, genocide, and culture in the Indian subcontinent and Eurasia
Razib Khan argues that ‘genocide’ carries modern, mass-politics connotations that do not map neatly onto premodern ethnic and religious turnover, where death was often a side-effect, and says readers should…
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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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Afghan Peace Process; Postscript
Hamid Hussain posts an exchange with an old Afghan hand of Pakistan’s ISI on the Afghan peace process. The respondent doubts any party can control Afghanistan or that the Taliban…
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Against being an intellectual subaltern
Razib Khan points to a long essay on his other weblog attacking reductive postcolonialism in Indian history and communal divisions, written after a tweet, and quotes its opening about a…
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Arundhati Roy on Kashmir; Pakistan is simply another Bantustan
A quick note on Arundhati Roy’s piece arguing that Modi’s Balakot airstrike internationalised the Kashmir dispute, with an excerpt and the poster’s surprise that the Pulwama bomber was a Kashmiri.
