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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
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Brown Pundits Reader Survey #3
Link to the third Brown Pundits reader survey, with results available in a shared spreadsheet.
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The Era of the Kushans
The author argues, from a range of evidence including R. C. Majumdar’s earlier doubts, that the Kanishka Era began around 233 CE rather than the currently accepted 127 CE, challenging…
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The Indo-Iranians go west!
Razib Khan examines why Sintashta-related ancestry seems lower in much of Iran than among Indo-Aryans in northwest South Asia, finding his qpAdm results erratic and using R1a1a lineage data to…
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Khannnn!!!!
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Browncast episode 101: The “Swedish model” of Covid-19 response
In Browncast Episode 101, Razib talks to Yeyo, a Peruvian living in Sweden, about the Nordic country’s response to coronavirus and how Yeyo’s own views changed during the pandemic, with…
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
Please put comments here that won’t fit elsewhere.
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The memes reflected in our genes
Razib Khan asks how Brahmins can show higher steppe ancestry yet not form a single founding lineage, answering that Indian social ecology and Brahmin roles spread and mixed steppe ancestry,…
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Atlas of the 1971 War
Reproduces the text of John H. Gill’s An Atlas of the 1971 India-Pakistan War, with its contents and preface, which calls the war the most important conflict between the two…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,923 comments
