February 2020
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
Open thread for general discussion, asking readers to keep other posts on topic, with links to the podcast, Twitter, RSS feed and Patreon.
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Browncast episode 80: Sikhs and Sikhism with Jodh Singh (Jungnihang)
BrownCast episode 80 with Jodh Singh, a young Indian American Sikh who writes on Sikh history, on the origin and rise of the Sikhs, their consolidation in colonial times, and…
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Brown Tories!
Responding to a Guardian piece, the author argues British Indians lean Conservative because they are largely successful bourgeois voters, the same logic as British Jews, as Conservative support among them…
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The Delhi riots
Open thread for comments on the February 2020 Delhi riots, with the poster saying he does not know what is happening there.
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
Open thread for general discussion, asking readers to keep other posts on topic, with links to the podcast, Twitter, RSS feed and Patreon.
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The rise of Islam after 1500 in the Indian subcontinent
Razib Khan recommends Richard Eaton’s The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, which explains Muslim majorities in eastern Bengal by peasant adoption of Islam under Mughal-era elites after 1576,…
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Brown privilege in the American executive suite
Discussing a study across nine experiments finding East Asians underrepresented in US leadership while South Asians outperform whites, the author draws out its explanation: cultural differences in assertiveness rather than…
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Family Karma: the power of assimilation
Comments that a new Bravo show about Indian Americans in Miami appears to follow the formula of similar reality shows, adding a superficial ethnic cast.
