June 2020
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The food of yore
Two food links for readers, Curry Before Columbus and a sixteenth-century Bengali meal.
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Iran_N/CHG Ancestry and the Genetic Origins of the Proto-Indo-Europeans
The author responds to Razib Khan, arguing that although the Aryan migration model may lack textual support, the steppe theory is far stronger than an Out of India origin for…
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Book Review: The Boats of Cherbourg
Hamid Hussain reviews Abraham Rabinovich’s The Boats of Cherbourg, on how Israel’s neglected navy developed sea-to-sea missiles and spirited missile boats out of France under an arms embargo, calling it…
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
Open thread of 27 June 2020: mentions the host’s episode of Big Brown Army on being Indian and evangelical, a new podcast, ABCD Politics, and asks readers for the best…
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Maharashtra genetics
A quoted abstract of a study of West Maharashtra castes and tribes finding Deshastha Brahmins carry more Iranian and steppe ancestry than Kunbi Marathas, and tribal groups very high AASI,…
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Resilience in the face of religious change
Razib Khan extends Gibbon’s argument that paganism could not reverse the rise of Christianity: religions with a class of devoted ideological professionals, like Christianity, Confucianism and Brahmin-led Hinduism, can recover…
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Interview with Radcliffe
Omar Ali reproduces an extract from Kuldip Nayar’s book Scoop, in which Nayar recalls Cyril Radcliffe saying he nearly gave India Lahore but kept it for Pakistan because it would…
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Browncast Episode 108: Harsh Gupta on the India-China Conflict and Going Long India
In Browncast Episode 108, Omar, Mukunda and Akshar speak to investor and author Harsh Gupta about the big-picture geopolitics of the Galwan clash in Ladakh, Indian civilisation, and why he…
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Browncast Episode 107: Kushal Mehra on religion
In Browncast Episode 107, Razib talks to Kushal Mehra about their views on religion: Mehra describes his transition from New Atheist to Carvaka, and the differences he sees between Dharmic…
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
Open thread of 20 June 2020: talk about whatever you want, with the host remarking that comments on Out of India theory make him more sceptical of it.
