May 2019
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The Hindu Liberal test
Answering a reader who says India honours Muslim heritage, the author proposes a ‘Babri test’ of whether a Hindutva supporter values liberalism or Hinduism: whether the Babri Masjid should be…
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Browncast Ep 41: An Indian Muslim on Maharajah Modi
A BrownCast episode, part two of episode 38, discussing the ramifications of Modi’s re-election for India with Jahanara, a Cambridge student with experience of the Delhi education system, with the…
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
An open thread for discussion of any topic, with other posts kept on topic.
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Racial Profiling
https://www.facebook.com/32040/posts/10107391545275811?s=32040&sfns=mo
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Indian Muslim podcast
Reports recording a podcast with an Indian Muslim guest who describes feeling fear in India for the first time, and argues that Pakistan has a moral obligation to open its…
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Was India ever really “secular”?
Starting from a book asking whether Europe was ever really Christian, the author argues India’s secularism was a chimera, a collectivist society ruled by an English-speaking elite, whose failure to…
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Indian Elections 2019 Thread
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Live-blogging: Tabataba’i in early colonial Bengal
Live notes on a lecture about Ghulam Husain, who wrote a Persian history in Bihar and was 30 at Plassey, placing it in a wave of Persian histories written in…
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Better in Wales than India
Calls it absurd to demand the return of Mughal artefacts when India and Pakistan both disrespect that period, saying the colonial encounter can be discussed once Pakistanis speak decent Dari…
