September 2021
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My Substack on Afghanistan
Razib Khan announces that his free Substack piece on Afghanistan is up.
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Hinduism in Afghanistan
The author argues against the claim that there was no Hindu Afghanistan: evidence of Hinduism is overwhelming, beginning in Indo-Greek times around 180 BCE with Indian iconography on coins found…
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Afghanistan was never “Hindu”
Razib Khan argues Afghanistan was never ‘Hindu’ in any comprehensible sense: its highlands were heavily Buddhist until about 900 AD, and he sees the area as a crossroads of Persian,…
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Nepali Brahmins tend to have Tibeto-Burman ancestry
Razib Khan says genetic data show all Nepalese groups except the Madheshi are Tibetan-shifted, with Magars the most and Brahmins the least, after a Nepalese Brahmin at a Clubhouse session…
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Open Thread – 09/04/2021 – Brown Pundits
What’s going on? We’re out of Afghanistan!
