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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
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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…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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