November 2019
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The Indo-Aryan enigma
Razib Khan weighs a piece arguing recent ancient DNA does not validate the Aryan invasion theory, noting the data show the BMAC did not impact South Asia demographically but leave…
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How to understand a people
Points to a long post on his other weblog arguing that a group should not be reduced to an agent in another civilisation’s history, and says this bears on views…
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Review: The Army and Democracy by Aqil Shah
A review of Aqil Shah’s The Army and Democracy, supplied by Major Amin, who agrees with the thesis but disputes Shah’s view of Jinnah, arguing that the 1916 Lucknow Pact…
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Why brown Americans find ethnic and national factionalism amusing sometimes
Razib Khan argues that to Americans most South Asians are just ‘the brown guy’, so differences of region, shade and religion look marginal, while saying people need not accept others’…
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The emergence of South Asia in human geography
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
Open Thread for 3 November 2019; no topic set, a general space for readers to talk about whatever they like.
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BP ascension graphic
A trend graphic showing three years of Brown Pundits user growth, noting that in October BP had more visitors from India than the United States for the first time.
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If marrying cousins is so bad why does everyone want to marry their cousins?
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Brown American in 2019
Responding to Hasan Minhaj’s interview with Zoomers, Razib Khan notes their wish that people understood the diversity within Indian Americans, and reflects that immigrants of 1965 to 1990 are now…
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Maacher Jhol!
Quotes a report on meat-eating in India, which finds only West Bengal, Assam and Kerala above 80 per cent weekly meat consumption, with a comment that Uttar Pradesh’s higher share…
