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Brown in the Whitehouse
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The Sindhi homeland of the “Dravidians”
The author is modestly confident of Peter Bellwood’s hypothesis that Dravidian languages spread south through the western Deccan, citing IVC-like ancestry in southern Pakistan and parts of South India, Dravidian…
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The scions of the priest kings
Talking to a South Indian Brahmin about his haplogroups, the author notes that Brahmin Y chromosomes are about half R1a1a-Z93 though steppe ancestry is 15 to 30 per cent, and…
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Open Thread – 1/16/2021 – Brown Pundits
Open thread, 16 January 2021: the poster announces a two-part Substack piece on Indian genetics due over the next two days, with an infographic posted for readers.
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The material wages of caste
Razib Khan sets aside the arguments over caste, varna and jati and asks what caste has meant materially, for wealth and work.
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Review: Advent of the Algorithm
A 2002 review, first published in the Herald, of David Berlinski’s The Advent of the Algorithm.
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Abhinav and me: genetics and India
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Saffron on the outside, woke on the inside
The author argues that although Hindutva and ‘woke’ politics are opposed in theory, parts of Hindutva Twitter borrow the woke style, including emphasis on feeling, lack of humour and identitarianism,…
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Open Thread – 1/9/2021 – Brown Pundits
Open thread, 9 January 2021: a note that a lot happened that week, and that the poster will discuss genetics on Abhinav Prakash’s podcast the following week.
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Why Hindu-Americans Don’t Stand Up For Hindus
The author asks Hindu-American friends why they speak up for other minorities but not Hindus, finds many unaware of the persecution of Hindus in Pakistan and Bangladesh, and argues their…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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