April 2020
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Ghaznavids from 1021 to 1186
Shares pictures from Major Amin summarising 200 years of Ghaznavid plunder and warfare, then recalls a school history teacher whose textbook listing ‘loot and plunder’ among Mahmud’s motives provoked an…
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Browncast Episode 94: Amey and Amit, Indians, not South Asian
BrownCast episode 94 with regular guests Amey and Amit, two right-leaning, American-ish people of Indian origin, whose main objection is to terms such as ‘South Asian’ and who discuss what…
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Being right-wing is just a thing, no matter the color
Responding to a Juggernaut piece on Seema Verma, the author argues that non-liberal Indian Americans are wrongly assumed to show false consciousness or self-interest, citing research that liberals and conservatives…
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The Elephant and the Dragon
Quoting a reader’s comment, the post suggests Chinese elites see Indians as big talkers and little doers, shaped by Cold War diplomacy and an earlier split in which China chose…
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Nicknames in the British Indian Army
Reposting an older essay by Hamid Hussain on officers’ nicknames, a British army tradition carried into the Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi armies, with examples such as ‘Sam’ Manekshaw, ‘Timmy’ Thimayya…
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Open Thread, 04/11/2020 Brown Pundits
Open thread for 11 April 2020, posted by mistake as a duplicate of another open thread.
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Open Thread, April 11th, Brown Pundits
Open thread for 11 April 2020, asking how everyone is holding up in lockdown.
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The gods of place
Drawing on The Final Pagan Generation and The Souls of China, the author notes that local gods and shrines dominated pre-modern religion in Rome and China, and asks what this…
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Browncast Episode 93: Camilo Gomez, Peruvian Left-libertarian
BrownCast episode 93 with Camilo Gomez, a left-libertarian intellectual and activist based in Lima, Peru, in a wide-ranging conversation on politics and ideas, hosted during a month the podcast says…
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The Afro-Asian world
Notes that by 2050 Europe and its offshoots, the Americas and Oceania will fall from 35 per cent of world population in 1950 to 20 per cent, making it ‘an…
