December 2020
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General AAK Niazi, Military career
A note by Hamid Hussain on the military career of Lt Gen A. A. K. Niazi, the Eastern Command chief who surrendered in December 1971. The introduction presents it as…
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The massive Indian migration to Southeast Asian
The author argues that genetic dating of Indian ancestry in Southeast Asia to about 1000 AD reflects assimilation of an older hybrid Indian-Southeast Asian population, citing Funan and Dvaravati’s Indic…
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Nadir Ali 1936-2020, RIP
An obituary of Colonel Nadir Ali (1936-2020) by his son, recounting a Punjab childhood, helping rescue kidnapped girls during Partition, Pakistan Army service, a 1971 East Pakistan deployment that left…
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Bangladesh’s War of Liberation-Historicising a Personal Narrative
A talk given by retired Pakistan Army Colonel Nadir Ali at BRAC University in Dhaka in 2007, recounting his experience of 1971 in East Pakistan, his links to Bengali officers…
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BP Unlurk Thread
An unlurk thread inviting longtime readers to introduce themselves, prompted by a comment recalling the site’s pre-2014 days, asking whether they are Indian, techies, and what their caste or jati…
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What’s in a name? That which we call a Swastika, isn’t exactly a symbol of hate
Recalling drawing auspicious symbols on exam papers in India and learning of Germany’s ban on the swastika, the author argues it is not simply a symbol of hate and traces…
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Open Thread – 12/26/2020 – Brown Pundits
Open thread, 26 December 2020: a note that Brown Pundits launched at the end of 2010, that archive tables survive, and that about as many Indians now read the site…
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On Ahmadiyyas and Jains
The author argues that Hindu treatment of Jains and Muslim treatment of Ahmadiyyas show why Hindus and Muslims differ: for Hindus culture almost always trumps religion, while hostility to Ahmadiyyas…
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Sign-up for my Substack!
A request to sign up, free if need be, for the poster’s Substack newsletter, since its paid price is too high for most Indians; he wants more Indian readers because…
