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Episode 8: The Guptas and Classical Age of India
Gaurav Lele and Jay Vardhan, moderated by Maneesh Taneja, discuss the age of the Guptas in the History of India series: Samudragupta’s military record, the emergence of classical Hinduism, and…
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Legacy of the Gupta Age
Nachiketa argues that the Gupta age deserves recognition as a period of immense consequence even though ‘Golden Age’ claims are often retrospective, and compares its decline under Hun invasions with…
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A video on the Sintashta Culture
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The truth still matters
Razib Khan disputes a claim that vegetarianism was a Brahmin invention, arguing the standard account is that Sramanic movements such as Jainism and Buddhism drove the shift and Brahmin ritualism…
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Happy Rama Navami!
Razib Khan marks Rama Navami with a joke that he has read only two-thirds of an English Mahabharata and knows nothing of Rama beyond his presumed Y haplogroup.
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Against blood quantum as a measure of indigeneity
Razib Khan sets out the three ancestry streams behind modern South Asians (Steppe Indo-Aryan, Ancient Ancestral South Indian and an Iranian-farmer-related component) and argues that blood quantum is a poor…
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So what’s wrong with being kaala?
Razib Khan, prompted by a comment thread, asks why South Asians recoil from the word ‘kaala’ (dark) even when well-off and Westernised. He treats it as learned conditioning that should…
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Guest Post: Ali Minai Looks at the Last Days of Imran Khan
Guest author Ali Minai argues that the opposition’s no-confidence move against Imran Khan made little political sense, and that Khan missed at least three chances to win the larger game,…
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Indus Valley on Tides of History
Razib Khan links an interview with a specialist on the Indus Valley Civilisation, finding it interesting but expressing mild scepticism about the suggestion of a pre-state primitive democracy there.
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Sri Lanka: Mob Rule or Color Revolution
Calling Sri Lanka’s protests mob rule that supporters see as a colour revolution, the author argues that urban, Western-leaning critics of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa echo a pattern of US-backed regime…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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