November 2021
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The New Order
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BrownCast with Rahul Pandita on Kashmir, Delhi Riots, Maoism
Omar and Gaurav talk to journalist and author Rahul Pandita on topics from Kashmir to the Delhi riots and Maoism, drawing on his memoir of the Kashmiri Pandit expulsion. An…
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Who was Sandrocottus ?
The author argues there are no solid grounds for identifying the Greek accounts’ Sandrocottus with Chandragupta Maurya, an identification that anchors ancient Indian chronology, and that the evidence favours Chandragupta…
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Parva: An epic masterpiece
Nachiketa calls Parva the best retelling of the Mahabharata he has read: a slow build of first-person arcs towards the great war that he found unputdownable, with notable attention to…
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Open Thread – 11/19/2021 – Brown Pundits
Modi?
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Untitled, 19 November 2021
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Caste in America
Razib Khan predicts that UC Davis adding caste to its anti-discrimination policy will lead others to follow and American liberals to talk constantly about caste, and offers survey-based notes on…
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David Berlinski Reviews Pankaj Mishra
Omar Ali promotes David Berlinski’s review of Pankaj Mishra’s essay collection Bland Fanatics, quoting excerpts and linking his own earlier rants, in which he dismisses Mishra as good for virtue…
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Pankaj Mishra and His Discontents
Omar Ali reposts his 2014 reply to a Pankaj Mishra New York Times op-ed, calling the ‘Pankajist worldview’ superficial while conceding that Indian hypernationalism is as real, and potentially as…
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South Asian ancestry in Tajikistan
Razib Khan quotes a study modelling Tajik ancestry as mostly Iron Age Turkmenistan with some Xiongnu and about 8 per cent South Asian, and reads its date for the South…
