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The Barua Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims as inversions?
The author argues that the Barua Buddhists, often called Bengal’s indigenous continuous Buddhists, mostly descend from Tibeto-Burman people who adopted Bengali identity, while the Rohingya claim deep Arakan roots and…
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Riding the pink rocket
A tweet from @bimboubermensch, posted without further comment, claiming that woke brown women from well-off families say they dislike white men but only date them.
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Araingang: Pakistani American nationalist and internet troll
In this BrownCast episode, Akshar, Mukunda and Razib discuss Pakistani and Indian nationalism with Araingang, a well-known Pakistani American nationalist online, covering Savarkar’s influence, Pakistan’s focus on West Asia and…
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Open Thread – 11/28/2020 – Brown Pundits
Open thread, 28 November 2020: a prescheduled note that the poster is keeping the Patreon to cover Brown Pundits costs such as podcast hosting, and will cross-post some podcasts from…
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On identifying with the label “Liberal” over “Conservative”
Prompted by a Twitter exchange with Akshay Alladi, the author explains why he identifies as a liberal rather than a conservative or ‘Hindutva liberal’, setting out his biases as a…
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Ancient German gotras
Discussing a study of two Bell Beaker cemeteries in south Germany, the author says archaeology, DNA and isotopes show family groups in which all males share one Y haplogroup and…
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How much “steppe” ancestry is there in South Asia? (Indian subcontinent)
A back-of-the-envelope estimate by the author that about 14 per cent of ancestry in South Asia, around 220 million people, derives from steppe Sintashta pastoralists, with 20 to 25 per…
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Book Review: A New Idea of India- Harsh Gupta & Rajeev Mantri
A review of Harsh Gupta and Rajeev Mantri’s A New Idea of India, which the reviewer sees as an earnest attempt to present the modern Indian state as heir to…
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Open Thread – 11/20/2020
Open thread, 21 November 2020: the poster mentions an AMA on IndiaSpeaks, his new Substack, and his children learning about Diwali this week.
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,919 comments
