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Review: The Army and Democracy by Aqil Shah
A review of Aqil Shah’s The Army and Democracy, supplied by Major Amin, who agrees with the thesis but disputes Shah’s view of Jinnah, arguing that the 1916 Lucknow Pact…
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Why brown Americans find ethnic and national factionalism amusing sometimes
Razib Khan argues that to Americans most South Asians are just ‘the brown guy’, so differences of region, shade and religion look marginal, while saying people need not accept others’…
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The emergence of South Asia in human geography
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
Open Thread for 3 November 2019; no topic set, a general space for readers to talk about whatever they like.
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BP ascension graphic
A trend graphic showing three years of Brown Pundits user growth, noting that in October BP had more visitors from India than the United States for the first time.
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If marrying cousins is so bad why does everyone want to marry their cousins?
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Brown American in 2019
Responding to Hasan Minhaj’s interview with Zoomers, Razib Khan notes their wish that people understood the diversity within Indian Americans, and reflects that immigrants of 1965 to 1990 are now…
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Maacher Jhol!
Quotes a report on meat-eating in India, which finds only West Bengal, Assam and Kerala above 80 per cent weekly meat consumption, with a comment that Uttar Pradesh’s higher share…
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
Open Thread for 27 October 2019; no topic set, a general space for readers to talk about whatever they like.
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Food!
Razib Khan asks whether beef curry is eaten much among Muslims in Pakistan, given its popularity in Bangladeshi cooking, and invites readers to share curious regional cuisine facts, including Bengali…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,920 comments
