November 2019
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O2a and Munda
Razib Khan quotes a paper on Y-chromosome haplogroup O2a-M95, which finds at least three founders linked to the spread of Austroasiatic languages into South Asia within the last five thousand…
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Browncast 72: Conversation with Salman Rashid
BrownCast episode 72: the hosts speak with Salman Rashid, an ex-army man turned travel writer with ten books, about Partition, Pakistan, history, Alexander the Great and whatever else comes up.…
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Baba Nanak Within Reach, by Muzaffar Ghaffar
Nadir Ali introduces Muzaffar Ghaffar’s Baba Naanak Within Reach, part of the series Masterworks of Punjabi Sufi Poetry, praising the translator’s long commitment to classical Punjabi verse and setting it…
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The Ram Mandir Verdict in India. From Dr Hamid Hussain
Hamid Hussain gives his personal reading of the Supreme Court’s November 2019 Ayodhya judgment, which awarded the site to Hindus after a decades-long dispute, against the background of the 1992…
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India’s Islam
An older post by The Emissary, revived from the archive, surveys Islam in India. The author states a negative view of its past impact and cites Will Durant, but wants…
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
Open Thread for 17 November 2019; no topic set, a general space for readers to talk about whatever they like.
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2019 Sri Lanka Presidential Elections
A breakdown of Sri Lanka’s 2019 presidential election, won by Gotabaya Rajapaksa with 52.5 per cent on 83 per cent turnout. The author argues that Tamil and Muslim bloc voting…
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Book Review: Baba Nanak Within Reach, by Muzaffar Ghaffar
The reviewer, a long-time friend, praises Muzaffar Ghaffar’s English renderings and notes on Guru Nanak’s poetry as valuable but little known abroad, and reproduces a selection of Nanak’s poetry with…
