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Why Did the EIC Win in India
Major Amin argues that the East India Company won in India through European-trained officers drilling native troops around a small European core, and through naval power linking its three separated…
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Extraction, a Bangladeshi view
Sharing a Bangladeshi viewer’s review of the film Extraction, which finds it anti-Bangladeshi and Islamophobic, the author disagrees, arguing the film exists in a world without religion and that cultural…
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Partition story, part 1
Omar Ali posts an English translation of his father Nadir Ali’s Punjabi memories of Partition, recalled from age eleven in Gujrat: the drought of 1947, riots in Lahore, Sikh loss…
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Hindu philosophy was mathematical, but Hindu nationalists are innumerate
Razib Khan recalls early-2000s alarm that Islam would dominate European societies, says Philip Jenkins’s work changed his mind, and applies the same demographic reasoning to argue that Hindu nationalists, despite…
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Brownpundits Browncast episode 100: Creating a New Medina, Venkat Dhulipala
In Browncast Episode 100, the hosts talk to historian Venkat Dhulipala about his book Creating a New Medina, on state power, Islam and the quest for Pakistan in late colonial…
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Causes of the Revolt of 1857
In a long piece by Major Amin, presented unedited, the causes of the 1857 rebellion are traced from India’s geography of repeated invasions through the socio-political conditions of the period,…
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India, Pakistan, TNT
Two tweets set side by side: one urging Pakistanis to see themselves as Muslims within India’s ancient civilisation, the other insisting that the only identity is ‘Muslim’, with an Ertuğrul…
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Browncast Episode 99: Carl Zha on the new Cold War, and marrying a Hindu
In Browncast Episode 99, Razib talks to repeat guest Carl Zha, host of the Silk and Steel podcast, about the new Cold War, the controversies around him, including claims he…
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The War Over Myth
The author takes Harari’s claim that shared myth let Cro-Magnons overcome Neanderthals and argues that myth continues to drive conflict between closely related peoples, from Athens and Sparta to Greeks…
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Open Thread, 04/07/2020 Brown Pundits
Open thread of 7 May 2020: asks readers to move the week’s conversations into this post and proposes a Zoom call at 12:30 PM India time.
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,923 comments
