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West Asian ancestry in South Asian Muslims
Answering complaints about his claim that South Asian Muslims are almost entirely of local descent, the author explains that ’99 per cent indigenous’ concerns DNA, not genealogy, since after about…
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Open Thread – 03/06/2021 – Brown Pundits
Open thread for 6 March 2021, defending his claim that South Asian Muslims derive about 99 per cent of their ancestry from Hindus or non-Muslims, and noting a British study…
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AIT vs OIT survey
A reader survey asking whether readers favour the Aryan Migration Theory or an Out of India origin, prompted by the readership now being plural-majority Indian by IP address and widely…
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The Fair-Skinned Sintashta folks did not spread Indo-Aryan languages in India
Introducing a long article in progress, the author argues that recent archaeology, notably the westward migration of Indicine cattle, can build a comprehensive case for an Out of India origin,…
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Open Thread – 02/27/2021 – Brown Pundits
Open thread for 27 February 2021, pointing readers to a Substack piece asking whether it matters who writes history if no one reads it, and urging them to learn more…
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Steppe lineages in northern Pakisan
The author flags a mitogenome paper on northern Pakistani Indo-Iranian speakers, reproducing its abstract: about 8.4 per cent of their maternal gene pool traces to Steppe-rooted lineages dated to roughly…
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Hazaras, and Divide and Rule in the British Empire
Major Amin argues the Hazaras were victims of British divide-and-rule, citing a family account that Hazara soldiers’ defection in Iran ended their recruitment to the British Indian Army, and says…
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Browncast: Koenrad Elst, Indologist and Hindu Nationalist
In a BP podcast, two hosts talk to Indologist Koenraad Elst, described as a supporter of right-wing Hindutva politics, about his understanding of Hinduism and Hindu identity, touching on the…
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On the historicity of the Vedas
The author says he now accepts that people resembling ‘white’ Europeans expanded into the subcontinent 3,000 to 4,000 years ago, reading Vedic descriptions of dark natives as literal rather than…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,920 comments
