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The gods of place
Drawing on The Final Pagan Generation and The Souls of China, the author notes that local gods and shrines dominated pre-modern religion in Rome and China, and asks what this…
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Browncast Episode 93: Camilo Gomez, Peruvian Left-libertarian
BrownCast episode 93 with Camilo Gomez, a left-libertarian intellectual and activist based in Lima, Peru, in a wide-ranging conversation on politics and ideas, hosted during a month the podcast says…
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The Afro-Asian world
Notes that by 2050 Europe and its offshoots, the Americas and Oceania will fall from 35 per cent of world population in 1950 to 20 per cent, making it ‘an…
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Open Thread, 04/04/2020 Brown Pundits
Thread to talk about whatever you want. What’s going in under lockdown???
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Browncast Episode 92: Amrit Pati on Swab for India
BrownCast episode 92 with Amrut Pati on Swab for India, the project he now works on full time because his father Mahesh has leukaemia and needs a stem-cell match, and…
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Browncast Episode 91: Jacob Shapiro on the EU, China, and the Geopolitical Impacts of Coronavirus
BrownCast episode 91, in which Omar, Mukunda and Akshar talk with geopolitical analyst Jacob Shapiro about the state of the EU, Chinese diplomacy, Turkish ambitions and American dominance, and the…
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A Mongol India, a pagan India?
Taking up a Twitter counterfactual, the author asks what might have followed had the Mongols destroyed the Delhi Sultanate, surveying how the Mongol khanates adopted Islam or Buddhism to speculate…
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Browncast Episode 90: With Kushal Mehra, Indian lockdown, Covid19, Things to come..
BrownCast episode 90 with Kushal Mehra of the Carvaka podcast, on the lockdown in Mumbai, the Indian response to COVID-19, the pandemic in general, and what might come next for…
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Are the (TV) Mahabharata and Ramayan “Right Wing”?
Asks whether the 1980s Doordarshan Ramayan and Mahabharata serials paved the way for Hindu nationalism, as many Left-liberal Indians argue. The author is fascinated that this view is respectable, and…
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What is a civilization?
Reflecting on what a civilisation is, the author finds Huntington’s emphasis on religion persuasive for South Asia, citing Peter Turchin’s view of higher religion as a meta-ethnic identity, while arguing…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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