May 2020
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The Indo-Iranians go west!
Razib Khan examines why Sintashta-related ancestry seems lower in much of Iran than among Indo-Aryans in northwest South Asia, finding his qpAdm results erratic and using R1a1a lineage data to…
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Khannnn!!!!
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Browncast episode 101: The “Swedish model” of Covid-19 response
In Browncast Episode 101, Razib talks to Yeyo, a Peruvian living in Sweden, about the Nordic country’s response to coronavirus and how Yeyo’s own views changed during the pandemic, with…
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
Please put comments here that won’t fit elsewhere.
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The memes reflected in our genes
Razib Khan asks how Brahmins can show higher steppe ancestry yet not form a single founding lineage, answering that Indian social ecology and Brahmin roles spread and mixed steppe ancestry,…
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Atlas of the 1971 War
Reproduces the text of John H. Gill’s An Atlas of the 1971 India-Pakistan War, with its contents and preface, which calls the war the most important conflict between the two…
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Why Did the EIC Win in India
Major Amin argues that the East India Company won in India through European-trained officers drilling native troops around a small European core, and through naval power linking its three separated…
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Extraction, a Bangladeshi view
Sharing a Bangladeshi viewer’s review of the film Extraction, which finds it anti-Bangladeshi and Islamophobic, the author disagrees, arguing the film exists in a world without religion and that cultural…
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Partition story, part 1
Omar Ali posts an English translation of his father Nadir Ali’s Punjabi memories of Partition, recalled from age eleven in Gujrat: the drought of 1947, riots in Lahore, Sikh loss…
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Hindu philosophy was mathematical, but Hindu nationalists are innumerate
Razib Khan recalls early-2000s alarm that Islam would dominate European societies, says Philip Jenkins’s work changed his mind, and applies the same demographic reasoning to argue that Hindu nationalists, despite…
