July 2019
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A Struggle for True Liberation
The author argues that India freed from British rule in 1947 soon fell back into hierarchy and narrowing ideas of Indianness that broke its pluralism, and links a longer ‘Dharmic…
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Trump Finds Hafiz Saeed..
The author argues that Pakistan’s latest arrest of Hafiz Saeed on terror-financing charges is no ‘finding’ and may not last, noting the charges are unrelated to the Mumbai attacks and…
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Episode 57: Indian Politics Podcast
A Brown Pundits podcast episode with the usual panel on Indian politics, centred on Mahua Moitra, whom the poster calls Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reimagined as Lady Durga, while noting that panellists…
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Browncast Episode 56: Urbane Cowboys in the conservative wars
A Brown Pundits podcast conversation with Josiah Neeley and Doug McCoullough, hosts of the centre-right Urbane Cowboys podcast, about the conflicts within modern conservatism and how the guests, who hold…
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Brown power now!
The author argues that brown Americans now hold real power on the Democratic Left, naming Saikat Chakrabarti, Faiz Shakir, Ro Khanna, Pramila Jayapal and Neera Tanden, and says he hopes…
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The ubiquity of the rentier state
Disputing an article that says the Mughals made India rich, the author argues that Maddison’s data may be wrong and the Mughal state was highly extractive, since most pre-modern societies…
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Why I like to ask about caste
The author argues that asking about caste, like asking about income in America, touches what really matters, observing that a group agreeing about caste privilege turned out to contain no…
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Podcast Updates
The author plans three monthly podcasts on Indian linguistics, politics and history, defines ‘India’ as the region from the Hindu Kush to the Indian Ocean, announces an episode on whether…
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Mahua Moitra- the Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
After discussing Mahua Moitra’s speech on the signs of fascism on a podcast, the author is convinced she is the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of Indian politics: attractive, media-friendly and eloquent.
