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Open Thread – 10/11/2023 – Brown Pundits
Sorry, a lot has been happening…
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Browncast: Prof Vamsee Juluri on Hindus and Hindophobia
A BrownCast with Prof Vamsee Juluri of the University of San Francisco, author of Rearming Hinduism, on how he defines Hinduism and Hinduphobia and why, and how, Hindus should ‘re-arm’…
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A Light Goes Out in Lahore
A repost of a 2013 essay on the murder in Lahore of an eye surgeon and his eleven-year-old son, which the author attributes to sectarian killers and to impunity in…
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The Tribes of Israel
Hamid Hussain surveys Israel’s ‘tribes’, secular, national-religious, Haredi and Arab, building on President Rivlin’s 2015 speech, and argues that separate school systems, military exemptions and disputes over marriage and conversion…
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The 100th Browncast with Amey the Maratha
The 100th BrownCast: Razib Khan and Amey talk about Sri Lankan genetics, the absence or presence of casteism in the USA, American immigration policy, and how William Dalrymple triggers Amey’s…
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Open Thread – 09/10/2023 – Brown Pundits
Open Thread, 10 September 2023: the host plans a podcast on caste for the week and links to earlier posts on the topic.
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Review: Anarchy -A Highly skilled jester playing to the gallery- Dalrymple’s Jaundiced Revisionism about British East India Company
Major Agha Humayun Amin reviews William Dalrymple’s Anarchy and dismisses it as playing to the gallery, citing omissions such as Saadat Ali Khan’s role in the sack of Delhi, while…
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The creation of Homo General Category
The author argues that the Indian American caste debate overlooks that about 85% of Indian American Hindus are General Category, and that America is a caste shredder, with many US-born…

