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Major Amin on the Current Crisis in Pakistan
A BrownCast in which Major Amin, at listeners’ request, gives a short summary of Pakistan’s political history, the current crisis, and especially the army’s role and the damage its mishandling…
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A Conversation on Caste with Dr. Prakash Shah
A BrownCast in which Dr Prakash Shah of Queen Mary University of London discusses with Omar Ali the framework for studying caste in India and its colonial antecedents, followed by…
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Perhaps the Indus Valley Civilization did descend from Zagrosian farmers?
A note quoting a paper on the limits of fitting complex population-history models, which questions whether the Indus Periphery lineage really split from Iranian farmers before the Ganj Dareh Neolithic,…
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Open Thread – 04/14/2023 – Brown Pundits
Open Thread, 14 April 2023: the host points to Iran pieces for readers asking whether they are Iranian, previews a long post on caste, the CISCO case and the US,…
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Conversation with Chitra Iyer: Founder- Space2Grow a Social Impact Firm
A BrownCast in which Chitra Iyer, co-founder and CEO of the social impact firm Space2Grow, talks to Maneesh about anti-child trafficking, digital safety and making Indians employable, with links to…
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On the Great Mughals: Indian or not?
Looking at portraits of Akbar and Shah Jahan, the author argues the Mughals were neither simply Indian nor simply colonisers: their ancestry was mixed, Sunni orthodoxy grew after Akbar, and…
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Cousin marriage in Bangladesh
Prompted by a Times argument to end cousin marriage in the UK, the author cites a PLOS One study of Bangladesh finding about 6.6% prevalence and three times higher mortality…
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Critical Caste Theory: A Dubious Discourse
An essay arguing that ‘Critical Caste Theory’, borrowed from Critical Race Theory, seeks to break the BJP’s caste coalition and attack ‘Brahminism’, which it sees as a term for Hinduism,…
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Episode 21: South India Post Vijayanagar Empire till 1857
Episode 21 of the BrownCast: Shrikanth tells Maneesh the history of South India after Vijayanagar up to 1857, covering the polities, their dealings with Europeans, and the socio-cultural legacy of…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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