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South Asian nations
Razib Khan dislikes the ‘GDP wars’ between India, Bangladesh and Pakistan and argues that health indicators are a harder-to-fake comparison, saying Pakistan is now the subcontinent’s ‘slow kid’ and that…
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Book Review: Ancient India, a Culture of Contradictions
Nachiketa rates Upinder Singh’s Ancient India: A Culture of Contradictions the weakest of her four books he has read, finding it largely a thematic summary of earlier work, with jarring…
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Merry Christmas!
Razib Khan reads the genetics of a sample with Sadgop and Baidya parents as showing that Baidya are not Brahmins who lost caste, since Bengali Brahmins shift toward the steppe,…
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Caste in the Indian subcontinent: the wages of Manu
Razib Khan points to a new Substack post on caste, saying the DNA data now give the general outline and it is up to social historians to make sense of…
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Open Thread, 12/9/2022, Brown Pundits
What’s going on?
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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