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While tagging his past posts, the author notices that Brown Pundits discusses Kashmir rarely, suggests Pakistan’s economic weakness and the Kashmiri struggle’s indigenous character as reasons, and lists the blog’s…
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Is the social justice exterior overwhelming the Indian nationalist interior?
Drawing on fifteen years of contact with young Indian Americans, the author describes a gap between their socially liberal public presentation and the nationalistic, sometimes anti-Muslim and caste-proud views they…
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Review: Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate: Covert Action and Internal Operations
A review, sent in by Major Agha Amin, of Owen Sirrs’s book on Pakistan’s ISI, setting out the questions the author asks about its evolution, relations with the CIA, abuse…
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Review: The Garrison State: Military, Government and Society in Colonial Punjab, 1849-1947
Major Agha Humayun Amin’s harsh review of Tan Tai Yong’s The Garrison State on colonial Punjab, arguing the book repeats flaws he identified in the author’s earlier article, including its…
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Collaboration and Loyalty in British India
Introduces a short podcast by Major Amin on who collaborated with the British in India, noting the East India Company’s army was recruited mainly from eastern UP and Bihar and…
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Did the Brits “Indianise” the NorthWest?
Asking whether the British ‘re-Indianised’ the north-west, the author argues Sindh, Balochistan and the Frontier saw long Iranian and Muslim influence, while British patronage of Hindi, canal colonies and middle-class…
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Browncast Episode 33: an ethnography of doubting Darwin
On Browncast Episode 33, the host talks to Benjamin Dierker, author of a piece on biologists questioning Darwinism, about his ethnography of intelligent design, what Neo-Darwinism means, and why conservatives…
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Book Review: The ISI and Afghanistan
A critical review of an American adjunct professor’s book on the ISI, written after his Kabul stay, which the reviewer faults for relying on sources like Saleem Shahzad and Steve…
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Browncast Episode 32: Indian Linguistics Podcast
On Browncast Episode 32, a panel of linguists surveys language in South Asia, including Sanskrit as a literary lingua franca until the late medieval period, regional dialects, and English’s emergence…
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Pakistan is home to the most frenetic education reforms in the world
An extract from an Economist report on Punjab’s rapid school reforms, with private providers taking over thousands of primary schools, plus the poster’s hope that the provincial competence continues under…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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