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Book Review: Saartha – 8th Century India recreated
Nachiketa praises S. L. Bhyrappa’s novel Saartha, a first-person journey of a Brahmana in eighth-century India, for bringing a real historical world to life in its own zeitgeist, including debates…
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Episode 11: Palas, Prathiharas and early Islamic invasions
In BrownCast episode 11, Maneesh and Gaurav talk with Jay and Omar Ali about North Indian power struggles from 700 to 1200 CE, the tripartite contest of the Palas, Rashtrakutas…
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Asad Durrani Views on Imran Khan
Omar Ali reposts former ISI chief Asad Durrani’s commentary on the Imran Khan phenomenon, in which Durrani argues that army attempts at political engineering have always failed. Omar offers it…
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Browncast: North India 700 to 1200 AD.
Gaurav, Omar and Jay talk with Maneesh about how North India changed as Islamicate incursions began, from the Arab conquest of Sindh to Mahmud of Ghazna’s raids and the gradual…
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Open Thread – 05/20/2022 – Brown Pundits
‘We are going to die’: Food shortages add to Sri Lanka’s woes.
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Browncast: Subcontinent and Movies
Omar Ali and Maneesh Taneja talk with Gaurav about movies of the Indian subcontinent in the twentieth century, with recommendations ranging from Tamil and Marathi films to Hindi comedies and…
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Episode 10: North India – before and after Harsha
Gaurav and Jay join Maneesh in the History of India series to discuss North India before and after Harsha: political splintering after the Guptas, the Kumbha Mela, declining trade, urban…
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Episode 9: South India from 500-1100 AD
Shrikanth and Mukunda join Maneesh in the History of India series to cover South India from 500 to 1100 AD: the Chalukyas, Pallavas, Rashtrakutas and Cholas, their political and cultural…
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Book Review: Shrayana Bhattacharya’s Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh-India’s Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence.
Maneesh Taneja reviews Shrayana Bhattacharya’s Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh, which uses the film star’s fandom to tell the stories of lonely young Indian women with limited income and agency. He…
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Open Thread – 4/22/2022 – Brown Pundits
What’s going on? Some Twitter controversy around Aurangzeb.
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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