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Why Did the Indian and Pakistani Armies fail in 1965?
A very long chapter from Major Agha Humayun Amin’s history of the Pakistan Army analysing why both armies failed in the 1965 war, posted whole by Omar Ali as a…
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The counterproductive (il)liberalism
Nachiketa argues that Indian liberal media weaken their case through polemic such as calling Yogi Adityanath ‘Ajay Bisht’, and that Bloomsbury’s de-platforming of the Delhi Riots 2020 book turned a…
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Why Turks ruled India for so long
Razib Khan argues that geography and economics, chiefly Turkic and Muslim access to steppe warhorses, rather than Hindu passivity or disunity, best explain the long Turkic ascendancy in the subcontinent…
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Browncast Episodes 121 & 122: Desi-Rae, heterodox Jamaican American, and Anthony, a black American in China
Two BrownCast episodes: Razib Khan talks to Desi-Rae, a Jamaican American with heterodox views on race in Jamaica and the US, relationships and the fallout from speaking out, and to…
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The Middle Path: Towards a Liberal Conservatism in India (Part 1)
In the first of three posts, the author answers Slapstik’s ‘Indian woke wears saffron’, arguing that the Bhakti movement was no rupture from earlier Dharmic traditions, that Congress had indigenous-minded…
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Why Indian Americans are not the new Jews
Razib Khan argues the analogy between Indian Americans and American Jews is superficial, sketching the two Ashkenazi migrations, the German Jews and the far larger wave from the Russian Empire,…
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Paatal Lok – Review
Nachiketa reviews the crime thriller Paatal Lok after reading a Swarajya piece accusing it of left-liberal propaganda, praising its engaging storytelling on communalism, casteism and patriarchy and weighing the Hinduphobia…
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Open Thread – 08/22/2020 – Brown Pundits
Open thread of 22 August 2020. The opening note warns commenters against Hindu nationalist tropes about Islam and says traditional Muslim historiography should not be taken at face value, any…
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The Qualitative Destruction of Pakistan Army between 1955 and 1971
An essay by retired Major A. H. Amin, written in 1999 and reposted from his Military History Centre site, arguing the Pakistan Army’s quality was eroded between 1955 and 1971…
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Kamala Harris embrace of ‘victim identity’ bothers me
Razib Khan says Kamala Harris’s embrace of victim identity bothers him, noting she entered law school through a programme for students facing hardship while her mother’s family were upper-middle-class Tamil…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,920 comments
