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All Things Tamil Cinema
Maneesh Taneja talks to Sai and Arun about Tamil cinema: its history, its relationship with the politics of Tamil Nadu, its evolution and the cults of personality it has produced,…
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British Officers of the EIC army. A force multiplier.
Omar Ali posts excerpts from Agha H. Amin’s work on the 1857 rebellion, whose summary holds that British officers were a crucial force multiplier in the East India Company army…
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History Podcast Episode 12: Social Milieu of North India 700-1200AD
In episode 12 of the history podcast, Mukunda and Jay talk to Maneesh Taneja about the cultural and social milieu of North India from 700 to 1200 AD: the waning…
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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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Open Thread – 08/12/2022 – Brown Pundits
Open thread for 12 August 2022, opening with a link to a report on Google cancelling a talk on caste bias amid accusations of reverse discrimination, with a jibe that…
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The flip side of globalization
Razib Khan links a report of protests across Bangladesh after a 52 percent fuel price rise, adding that global supply shocks from the Russia-Ukraine conflict will hit small developing nations…
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Varna is Indo-European and jati is Indian
Razib Khan observes that most Indo-European societies had occupational caste systems but only the subcontinent has jati, suggests the Indo-Aryans adopted indigenous forms of strict endogamy, and speculates that jati…
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Thank God the British are working on South Asian genomics
Razib Khan welcomes the UK Biobank’s sequencing of nearly 10,000 South Asians, noting that it oversamples some groups, and asks why India is tarrying while China sequences millions, suggesting the…
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Start-up Ecosystem In India
Maneesh Taneja has a freewheeling conversation with Roshan Cariappa, host of the Start-up Operator podcast, on India’s start-up ecosystem: a beginner’s guide to its industries and geographies, ending with the…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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