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Early Hinduism – the epic stratification
Nachiketa offers a self-described highly speculative account of how jati-varna stratification emerged, bringing together early Indian texts and the Sramana traditions of Buddhists, Jainas and Ajivikas, and contrasting their detailed…
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Browncast: Anti Hindu violence in Bangladesh with Alex
Mukunda and Nachiketa host Alex Zuvran to discuss recent anti-Hindu violence in Bangladesh, Islamism, the Awami League, Sheikh Hasina and cricket; the host says some of what the guest said…
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The Sintashta horses!
Razib Khan quotes the abstract of a paper placing the origin of modern domestic horses in the lower Volga-Don steppes, and concludes that the Sintashta seem to have triggered the…
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Open Thread – 10/18/2021 – Brown Pundits
What’s going on?
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Why the Aryan debate matters and why it should NOT
Nachiketa revisits the Aryan debate as a question of identity and politics rather than history, arguing it is largely irrelevant to the issues it is tied to, such as colonial…
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Major Amin’s Review: 1965, A Western Sunrise. by Shiv Kunal Varma
Reviewing Shiv Kunal Verma’s 1965: A Western Sunrise, retired Major Agha H Amin finds it a good effort with interesting background but lists several errors on brigade structure, the SSG’s…
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Browncast: Omar Ali on Pakistan, Myths and Realities
Reversing roles, Maneesh Taneja interviews Omar Ali on Pakistan’s ideology, Partition, why the army rules and how India-Pakistan relations may evolve; errata correct the Indian army’s share of Muslims at…
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Kashmiris are just generic North Indians, and there is no difference between Pandits and Muslim Kashmiris
Razib Khan says genetic data show Kashmiris resemble other north-western Indians, with no difference he can see between Pandits and Kashmiri Muslims and low-level Tibetan admixture in both, suggesting the…
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Academic freedom, Hinduism, and the end of the age
Razib Khan calls a news report on US scholars of South Asia under pressure from Hindu nationalist groups a mishmash that dwells on sensational activists. He accepts many are illiberal…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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