September 2020
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America has been good to immigrants and we should be honest about who we are
Razib Khan clarifies his Unherd piece: he argues that some South Asian American social justice activists claim the weight of colonialism and oppression to add to their authority despite privileged…
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About Brahmin Privilege: Education, Brits and Chitpavans
Nachiketa argues that crude comparisons of Brahmin privilege with white slave-owning ignore the concrete, caste-correlated privileges of wealth, education, connections and urban background, and examines educational attainment as an inherited…
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Unheard objections
Answering objections to his piece on Brahmins and white privilege, the author says caste is not a US issue but Indian Americans are unrepresentative: in a private survey of 2,000,…
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History beyond the screaming
Razib Khan says he will stop weighing in on Twitter history debates about the subcontinent, finding Indians and Pakistanis too emotionally invested for nuance, while still finding the history itself…
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Browncast: Dr Woodson
Razib and Mukunda speak with Robert Woodson, founder of the Woodson Center and a member of the 1776 Project, about the US racial dialogue, the Civil Rights era, how it…
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Revoking 13th Amendment in Sri Lanka and Elections in the US.
The author argues Sri Lanka needs a centralised state, warning that provincial devolution under the 13th Amendment could become de facto federalism and a client state of India, and offers…
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The religion of Hindus before Hinduism
Razib Khan disputes Richard Eaton’s aside that Turk-Indian conflict was not confessional, arguing religious and civilisational identity was robust and that a bundled Hindu identity is older than the 19th…
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Book Review: The Era of Bajirao
Nachiketa reviews Uday Kulkarni’s The Era of Bajirao, praising a document-grounded account of the Peshwa’s rise, his rivalry with Nizam-ul-Mulk, his debts and his strained dealings with Shahu, as a…
