July 2020
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Maratha Mindset: How to Control Your History and Emotions to Grasp the Future on Your Terms
Prompted by the film Panipat, Razib Khan reflects on the rising Maratha moment in Indian historical imagination, arguing that history’s facts are fixed while interpretation shifts with the analyst, and…
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American caste! (?)
Razib Khan criticises a New York Times Magazine extract that compares American racial hierarchy to Indian caste and Nazi Germany, arguing the author lacks knowledge of India and citing intermarriage…
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Browncast Episode 109: Abhinav Prakash: Indian culture, society, and politics
In Browncast Episode 109, Razib talks to economist Abhinav Prakash about the culture of UP, BJP economic policy, Hindu identity, Hindu-Muslim relations in the state, regional differences, the Maratha mindset…
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On Being Hindu in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
Commenting on halted construction of an Islamabad Hindu temple, Razib Khan argues the objection fits historical Islamic norms of tolerating but not encouraging minorities, and that Hinduism is seen as…
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The long-hand of deep antiquity
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The Arctic home of the Aryans
Razib Khan discusses a preprint on ancient genomes from northwestern Russia, showing Fatyanovo Corded Ware people carried steppe and early farmer ancestry from a fast migration northeast, and links this…
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A risk factor for COVID-19 in South Asians
Razib Khan reports a study finding that the main genetic risk factor for severe COVID-19 is a Neanderthal-derived segment found in about 30 per cent of South Asians, with the…
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The determinants of prosperity in South Asia
The author charts GDP per capita across South Asian states, provinces and countries to ask whether policy and state capacity or geography and history explain prosperity, and identifies roughly five…
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
Open thread of 4 July 2020: asks how India is faring after coronavirus, announces a podcast with Abhinav Prakash, and floats ‘cultural genocide’ as a more accurate term than genocide…
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Total fertility rate map in South Asia
A short post sharing a map of total fertility rates across South Asia, noting interesting subregional trends.
