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Review: The Map and the Scissors by Amit Majmudar
Omar Ali praises Amit Majmudar’s novel The Map and the Scissors as a riveting, carefully researched account of Partition through the parallel lives of Jinnah and Gandhi, and credits it…
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A vision for solving India’s caste social crises
Razib Khan argues that jati-varna helped India resist Islamisation but is now a problem, calls caste-based reservations socially toxic and economically inefficient, and expects falling endogamy to dissolve the system…
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The the origins of the false moral panic about caste in the USA
Razib Khan calls the push to ban caste discrimination in US institutions, such as Brown University, a false moral panic, arguing that few Indian Americans are Dalit or care about…
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Faces of women of the world
Razib Khan generates Midjourney portraits of women by nationality and Indian ethnicity, noting that obscure groups tend to come out looking East Asian, and that some results make sense while…
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Proud of Rho Khanna
Razib Khan answers Ann Coulter’s claim that Indians lack the American attitude to free speech by praising Ro Khanna as the one Democrat persistently concerned about Twitter’s suppression of the…
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USA, China, Taiwan. A Fateful Triangle.
Hamid Hussain argues that Taiwan is the likeliest flashpoint for conflict between the United States and China, as Beijing under Xi Jinping seeks to push the US out of the…
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The Survey of India
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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First AASI mtDNA genomes from Sri Lanka (2500 and 5500 BC)
Razib Khan quotes a paper reporting the first mitochondrial genomes from Mesolithic hunter-gatherers in Sri Lanka, haplogroups M18a and M35a, both South Asian-derived, adding only that it is odd this…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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