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People of Indian ancestry need to learn things outside of India or they will sound stupid
Razib Khan answers a commenter who compares Islamic invasions of India to Christian conquests in the Americas, arguing the Spanish aimed to extract rents rather than slaughter, that disease caused…
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Afghanistan, Next Round
Hamid Hussain assesses Afghanistan after the February 2020 US-Taliban agreement, arguing that disputes over prisoner exchange and ceasefire continue to stall progress, the Taliban reject ceasefire calls to keep leverage…
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AASI Y chromosomal lineage: haplogroup C
Razib Khan notes that Y haplogroup C, found in South Asian groups without East Asian ancestry, diversified about 50,000 years ago between Australians, Papuans and Indians, making it a likely…
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A collective religion in an individualistic age
Razib Khan argues that Kurds embracing Zoroastrianism show why people leaving Islam may reasonably return to ancestral faiths, treats the objection that ancestors weren’t really Hindu as pedantic, and notes…
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Browncast Episode 98: Covid-19 India status update, May 5th
In Browncast Episode 98, Razib talks to Kushal Mehra, the Carvaka, about what is happening in India during the COVID-19 pandemic, in an update episode dated 5 May 2020, with…
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Capsule Review: Napoleon, a Life; by Andrew Roberts
Omar Ali gives a five-star capsule review of Andrew Roberts’s Napoleon: A Life, finding the hero-worship irritating but the research thorough and readable, and the best new fact being how…
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The Persian captivity
Razib Khan urges readers to study histories beyond the subcontinent, arguing that pastoralist depredations were not unique to India, that Turkic dynasties dominated the Muslim world for a thousand years,…
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They came, they conquered, & they were swallowed
Responding to a reader’s piece on an invasive Aryan migration, Razib Khan agrees on the likely violence and sex-biased conquest but argues the conquered were the ruins of Indus societies,…
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Sikh Society: forged in the frontier
Using Mackinder’s Geographical Pivot of History thesis, which he calls imperialist and reductionist yet useful, the author begins an argument that Sikh society was forged on the Punjab frontier, as…
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Open Thread, 05/02/2020 Brown Pundits
Open thread of 2 May 2020, with a note that the host has gradually loosened moderation, especially on his own posts.
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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