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Beards, Bigotry and Burqas
Recalling the jovial Sardar caricature of 1990s Indian entertainment, the author contrasts it with the bearded-Muslim imagery he grew up with, including a local mural, and reflects on how such…
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Monkeys and the Indo-Europeans – Revised & Enlarged
A revised and enlarged post on monkeys and the Indo-Europeans, prompted by a reader’s comment; nearly all of the text, which appears to be in Devanagari, is lost in conversion,…
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Monkey see – Monkey Do ?
A self-described layman’s rant a year into India’s lockdown, asking how different the global Covid response would have been without China’s example and puzzling over why Indian spikes came in…
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Open Thread – 04/03/2021 – Brown Pundits
Open thread for 3 April 2021, noting a multi-part steppe series on the author’s Substack and the growth of the Brown Pundits brand on Clubhouse.
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The Mughals!
After a Clubhouse debate on the Mughals, the author rejects both the ‘great Indians’ and ‘genocidal colonisers’ extremes, arguing they were partly an alien Turco-Mongol presence yet drove changes that…
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The Uber Eats” murder
The author links a report that a GoFundMe for an Uber Eats driver allegedly murdered by two teenage girls has passed $1 million, remarking that it feels like the 1980s.
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Monkey and the Indo-Europeans
Starting from Gamkrelidze and Ivanov’s claim that Proto-Indo-Europeans knew the monkey, the author argues their arguments better support an Indian homeland, and that the word may have entered Indo-European from…
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Review: Magic in Islam by Michael Mohammed Knight
In an old capsule review, the author calls Michael Knight’s Magic in Islam a hot mess worth reading: full of fascinating material on magic in Islamicate tradition, but wrapped in…
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Open Thread – 03/27/2021 – Brown Pundits
Open thread for 27 March 2021, noting the blog has been quiet and asking whether readers have forgotten the Brown Pundits Reddit.
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,920 comments
