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Do you want to join the Caste of the Europeans?
The poster types out excerpts from Owen Chadwick’s The Reformation on a Portuguese Jesuit in Madurai who let converts keep Hindu customs and respected caste, and says it shows how…
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The Five Great Brahmin Castes and their proclivities
Zach muses on Brahmin sub-castes, saying north-western communities such as Sindhis and Punjabis pursue different professions, and speculates that exposure to Islamicate ways reduced inclination for science. He also defends…
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India, Pakistan, Kashmir..
The author argues that the India-Pakistan conflict is asymmetric because Pakistan wants to change the Kashmir status quo while India is content with it, surveys Pakistan’s attempts to change it…
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Indians in Kerala are less religiously polarized, those in Bihar are more polarized
Razib Khan uses World Values Survey regional data to check commenters’ claims, finding trust across religions is highest in Kerala and lowest in Bihar. He cautions that single results need…
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Brown is all, all is brown
Razib Khan argues for a liberal, broad view of who counts as ‘brown’ or desi, using adoptees raised as English-speaking American Christians and converts to South Asian religions as test…
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Witches Brew. Saudis, Iran, Pakistan
Hamid Hussain responds to questions on the Warsaw conference, where Benjamin Netanyahu spoke of Arab states and Israel standing together against Iran, noting the walked-back wording, and weighs the positions…
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
A standing open thread: readers are asked to keep other posts on topic and use this one for anything they like.
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Is Pakistan (or Pak sponsored group) responsible for the attacks?
Zach relays a friend’s view that India’s high-tech monitoring makes smuggling across the Line of Control near impossible, and discusses who was behind the Pulwama attack. He says the situation…
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The Immigrants Anthem
The poster shares an Irish Times passage likening love for a second country to love for a second child, and says it expresses his own view of national identity as…
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An Eye transplant and a Pound of Flesh
An article by Bhante Dhammika from a Sri Lankan newspaper on the town of Sibi in Balochistan as the setting of the Sivi Jataka legend, reproduced in full with little…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,923 comments
