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Farmers vs Government: The Benefits and Limits of Democratic Redistribution
The author argues that India’s democracy let its large farming population keep a steady share of redistribution during globalisation-led growth, unlike one-party China and Vietnam, where farm incomes fell relative…
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The Confluence of Two Seas: India and Arabia
The author opens with Dara Shikoh’s treatise on the similarities of Hinduism and Islam and his execution under Aurangzeb, then sets out to tell the story of Arabia before and…
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Bengal and Dharma: A Recipe for Revival
Reposted from the author’s Medium page, this essay argues that Dharmic civilisation has lost ground over centuries, including Punjab, Sindh and Bengal, and that reviving Bengal means going back to…
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“too many Indian names”
A New York Times report on a Houston doctor fired and charged after giving expiring Covid-19 vaccine doses to patients, with officials questioning ‘too many Indian names’, posted with the…
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The Genetics of India Cloubhouse Event – Friday 9 PM CDT
Razib Khan announces a Clubhouse room on the genetics of India, Friday 9 PM CDT, based on his two Substack posts on Aryans and humans, with David Mittelman helping to…
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Book Review: The Wellington Experience
Hamid Hussain reviews David Smith’s The Wellington Experience, a study of the Indian Army’s Staff College based on interviews with US officers who attended it. He reports its main findings…
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Forgotten Masters: Indian artists during the Raj
The author reports on an online lecture by William Dalrymple and Xavier Bray about the Wallace Collection’s Forgotten Masters exhibition of Indian artists under the Raj, whose themes are everyday…
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Open Thread – 2/6/2021
Also, we have a new Browncast:
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Browncast: Keerthik Sasidharan, author of The Dharma Forest
In this BrownCast episode the host talks to Keerthik Sasidharan, author and columnist, whose debut book The Dharma Forest came out in India in December 2020, about the book, the…
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India Stack: The Art of Digital Alchemy
The author presents India Stack, the country’s digital identity and payments infrastructure, as quite possibly the most advanced and successful fintech stack anywhere, and traces how digital payments and Direct…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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