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Reactions to caste piece in UnHerd
Razib Khan answers reactions to his UnHerd piece on caste in America, saying it concerns Indian immigrants in the US, not India or the Caribbean, that caste in the West…
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Epoche and detachment in analysis
Razib Khan criticises hyperbolic emotionality in subcontinental debate, arguing that the Mughals were largely a colonial, alien power extracting rents, that Muslims admire them uncritically, and that Hindu claims of…
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Pocket Review: Secret City. A History of Gay Washington
Omar Ali gives a short note on James Kirchick’s Secret City, covering gay life in Washington from the 1930s to the 1990s, mostly elite gossip, and the ‘lavender scare’ that…
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The Surveying of India by the British
Hamid Hussain traces how the East India Company’s mapping of India and its frontiers grew from local military surveys into the Survey of India, driven by British and native explorers…
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Browncast episode 194: Caste, Hindus in America and Hinduphobia
Razib Khan talks to Nikunj Trivedi and Pushpita Prasad of the Coalition of Hindus of North America about caste identity among Hindu Americans, using the Carnegie survey to question the…
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Open Thread – 06/10/2022 – Brown Pundits
What’s going on?
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Stop trying to make ‘caste happen’
Reacting to a Washington Post report on Google cancelling an Equality Labs talk on caste, Razib Khan argues that progressive funders and Indian American journalists uncritically relay activists’ claims, and…
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Hindi Cinema As Visual Political Narrative
The author traces four phases of social change in post-independence India through Hindi films, beginning with the late 1950s to 1970s era of socialism, industrialisation and urbanisation, and arguing that,…
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General Qamar Javed Bajwa
Hamid Hussain reviews General Bajwa’s tenure as Pakistan’s army chief, arguing that he inherited the army’s political engineering project backing Imran Khan, a ‘hybrid regime’ in which the institution became…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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