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The Vedic People: Their History and Geography
A recommendation of Rajesh Kochhar’s The Vedic People: Their History and Geography, called short, dense and impressive in command of scholarship, though not to be taken as gospel.
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Kabuki Dance – Pakistan’s Balancing Act
Hamid Hussain argues Pakistan’s regional environment has turned harder under Imran Khan, who faces fast US-Taliban talks, Iran’s isolation and Gulf rivalries amid domestic instability and economic decline. He notes…
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Why I write on India’s lack of Asabiyyah
Zach answers a reader’s call to move beyond India-Pakistan and Aryan-Dravidian debates by saying he does not want an ultra-popular blog, locks more content on his private blog, and values…
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Wagner and India-
Zach reflects on a Western historian taking on Indian topics, wondering if a Sikh would draw the same notice, and observes that people of colour in Western humanities are channelled…
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What to read if you don’t want to read Guha
Razib Khan asks what books on Indian history an American conservative should read instead of Ramachandra Guha’s India After Gandhi, after Kushal Mehra noted Ben Shapiro was reading it. He…
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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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Pakistani Perfidy & The Nehruvian Deep State
Zach cites a Pakistani Christian’s account of a Hindu family barred from buying a flat to argue that Pakistani minorities face everyday discrimination, and presses liberal Pakistanis to explain it.…
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On the difficulties of cross-cultural communication
Razib Khan explains that Indian English and American English can carry different implications, using ‘secularist’ as an example, and that he avoids it with Indian audiences to dodge pointless arguments.…
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BrownCast Podcast episode 15: conversations with a Carvaka
BrownCast episode 15 is a conversation with a Carvaka, hosted with Kushal Mehra. The post gives no details beyond noting the podcast had been on the patron page for nearly…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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