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What The All-Father Means
The author explains his joke about being a scion of the All-Father: the R1a1a Y-chromosome lineage spread across Eurasia and South Asia, and star phylogenies from whole-genome data suggest a…
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Indian Female Academics of the Left
Attending a Cambridge talk on decolonisation, the author observes that Indian women in humanities are at the vanguard of the left, and argues left-liberal Indians have become de-Hindufied in ways…
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BP Podcast episode 48: Hitchhikers Guide to Hindustan
A BrownCast episode in which the host speaks to Rajat Ubhaykar about his epic journeys around India, with a note that a few inadvertent remarks by the host sparked a…
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The price of Unity for India’s Dravidians
Prompted by Afghanistan’s outsized global influence, the author muses that the four Dravidian states’ sub-nationalism vanishes on the world stage within Indian nationalism, and wonders whether more distinctive Indian minorities…
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Live Blogging: White noise, séances & colonial linguistics
Live notes on Professor Javed Majeed’s lecture on George Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India and its gramophone recordings, covering how the survey shaped the boundaries of regional languages and is…
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The Harilals of Hong Kong
Praises a video of a Hong Kong business family as the joint family done well, and suggests that diaspora trading families will keep Hinduism alive against assimilation.
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Samosas vs. Pakoras
Prompted by a joke about Islamicate samosas versus indigenous pakoras, the author notes that core desi food is heavy on carbohydrate and light on protein, prefers Mughlai cooking to Arabic…
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Sajid Javid finally *owns* his Pakistaniness
Praises Sajid Javid’s Tory leadership campaign video on the immigrant experience, quoting a tweet by Tim Shipman, and says the author was finally moved because Javid owned up to his…
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Between Marx and the mullah
The author argues that ancient DNA shows massive past population turnovers, yet premodern states lacked the capacity for coordinated genocide, so Latin American collapse owed more to disease and famine,…
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BrownCast Podcast episode 47: Game of Thrones with Jennifer Raff and Patrick Wyman
A BrownCast episode in which Razib discusses the end of Game of Thrones with geneticist and anthropologist Jennifer Raff and historian and podcaster Patrick Wyman, with listening links and an…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,923 comments
