-
An early modern Pax Islamica
Reviewing The Muslim Empires of the Ottomans, Safavids and Mughals, the author praises its short comparative frame, noting that the three dynasties differed in religious basis: Ottoman ghazis, the Safavid…
-
Open Thread – Brown Pundits
Open thread for general discussion, asking readers to keep other posts on topic, with links to the podcast, Twitter, RSS feed and Patreon.
-
Social Justice as white self-regard and self-obsession
Starting from a Kali Yuga remark mistaken for an alt-right idea, the author argues that a certain Western social-justice outlook treats non-Western people as purely derivative of Western agency, ignoring…
-
What is it like being gay in India?
Asks readers about being gay in India, prompted by a friend’s anecdote of repeated propositions by local men, and wonders whether large cities now have viable gay communities.
-
Book Review: Blood Over Different Shades of Green: East Pakistan 1971 History Revisited
Hamid Hussain reviews Ikram Sehgal and Bettina Robotka’s Blood Over Different Shades of Green, praising a candid account by an army officer of mixed Punjabi and Bengali parentage, and noting…
-
Eye in the Sky. Pakistan and Cold War Aerial Reconnaissance
Hamid Hussain’s long 2010 essay on US reconnaissance flights from Pakistan during the Cold War, from high-altitude U-2 surveillance onward, sent to his mailing list after readers asked for it…
-
What has brown done for you?
Notes, citing a report on investor Swati Mylavarapu fundraising for Pete Buttigieg, that centrist Indian Americans still exist and punch above their weight at 1 per cent of the US…
-
Please read Who We Are and How We Got Here
Urges readers to read David Reich’s Who We Are and How We Got Here, which answers most big questions about ancient DNA to a first approximation, and points to free…
-
Genetic odds & ends
Razib Khan notes a Cambodian sample from 100 to 300 AD with considerable Indian ancestry, and argues appearance is a poor guide to ancestry, since physical variation within Indian populations…
-
A Tale of Oil and Fire: The Saudi-Iran Conflict
Shares a four-part series, A Tale of Oil and Fire, giving an overview of the Saudi-Iran conflict amid the January 2020 tensions, and asks readers for predictions about regional turbulence.
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,920 comments
