July 2020
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Dalit in Silicon Valley
Razib Khan responds to the New York Times report on caste in Silicon Valley, arguing from population numbers and genotype samples that Dalits are too few among Indian Americans for…
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Life is a great test
Razib Khan compares two pieces on Asian American test-prep culture, criticising The Juggernaut for starting from a conclusion that test scores are a proxy for privilege and preferring a Refinery29…
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Why the Far Left Is More Dangerous Than the Far Right
A brown Democrat argues that the far left poses a greater danger to America than the far right, citing survey charts and drawing parallels with the Indian left, while stressing…
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Brown Pundits Reader Survey – 2020
Results of the 2020 reader survey: 329 respondents, mostly male, mainly subcontinental but almost 40 per cent white, largely secular, with a plurality of mixed views on Hindu nationalism.
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Myth from history
Razib Khan argues that nation-states grow out of historical memory and organic identity, so India’s civilisational unity does not automatically make a nation-state; he contrasts Southeast Asia, Europe and China…
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Looking to the east: a different secularism than the West
Responding to a piece linking Hagia Sophia to India, the author asks whether Western-style secularism can take root in non-Christian societies without the Reformation and Enlightenment, suggesting that religion defines…
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Genetic distance in Europe and South Asia
A neighbour-joining tree of pairwise Fst genetic distances for European and South Asian populations, with a link to the raw table.
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits – 7/11/2020
Open thread of 11 July 2020: the usual, with a request to reduce the vitriol and thanks for readers’ links.
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The Jats and Indo-Aryan expansion in South Asia
The author argues that the high steppe ancestry of Haryanvi and western UP Jats reflects their location in the Vedic Kuru heartland, quoting Michael Witzel, and not later Indo-Scythian migration,…
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The Jat Gene!
Razib Khan plots Jat samples on PCA and admixture charts, finding them at the ANI end of the cline and distinct from Pashtuns and especially Baloch, who show more West…
