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Open Thread – 8/27/2024 – Brown Pundits
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Razib Khan
Razib Khan is a Bangladeshi-American geneticist and writer. He is co-founder of Brown Pundits and runs Unsupervised Learning, a Substack on population genetics, evolution, history, and politics with more than 55,000 subscribers, alongside the accompanying podcast. He has blogged at Gene Expression since the early 2000s. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Review, Slate, India Today, Quillette, and UnHerd. He is Director of Operations at FUTO in Austin, Texas, and co-founder of GenRAIT, a life-sciences platform company. Earlier in his career he developed ancestry algorithms for Gene by Gene, the Genographic Project, and Insitome, and was among the first employees at Embark Veterinary. Born in Dhaka and raised in upstate New York and eastern Oregon, he holds degrees in biochemistry (2000) and biology (2006) from the University of Oregon, and undertook doctoral work in genomics and genetics at UC Davis. He lives in Austin. View all posts by Razib Khan
The vibe on Indian twitter including RW seems to be that modi is in trouble. The momentum traders blame for not doing enough to save bjp voters from post poll violence (somewhat justified). But some (not all) of these folks also accurately blame him for series of masterstrokes in MH. After the BD fiasco, these folks are sensing the wind changing direction and have adjusted sails accordingly.
Apparently strategic autonomy is bunkum and he should have hitched india to west band wagon. And some folks wrap this in karmic/dharmic terms. All the vassals are looking at demographic doom either on the battlefield or falling tfr.
In karmic terms india should not act as accomplice to take down China. We would be acting as foot soldiers like we did in opium wars.
baloochistan =kashmir???
https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/streets-on-fire-will-bengal-experience-an-electoral-earthquake/cid/2044251
swapan dasgupta also hints that muslims have not joined the street protests.
The new formation time to R1a-L657 in full Y-tree site (31 August 2024) is 2350 BCE, and to one of the latest branches of Z2123 which is Y43743 the formation is 2150 BCE, and TMRCA 2050 BCE. So, the arrival of steppe ancestry in South Asia can be considered now to be since the end of third millennium BCE.
Bjp and modi government seems to be gearing towards conceding caste census. Twitter RW seems to be flailing around in a defeatist mindset. Some are asking bjp to play sub caste categorization Card. IMO that will be too soon to play your one real master stroke. Instead shore up support from your allies for waqf bill + extending reservation to minority institutions in exchange for caste census. After caste census, take a call based on data. If bihar and Karnataka are any indication then it will due a natural death. INC is likely to push for minority reservation. In that case bjp will get to play on favorable ground of Muslims having got Pakistan + minority benefits already. Plus anyone can benefit under EWS.
Hi Razib!
I’ve been a longtime lurker and supporter. I’ve been hearing about this Pak nationalist theory that Indus related ancestry in India is not from the IVC? Apparently some people think that “Iran_N” spread throughout the subcontinent at the time of the Mehrgarh settlement after which the IVC arose from the western branch of this iranian farmer urheimat. The idea is to separate Indians from the IVC I guess. Any credibility to this theory?
My Take – Mainline Hinduism is pretty much the culmination of the Taitirriya School of the Krsna Yajur Veda. The emergence of Siva from Rudra, the beginnings of Vaisnavism, and the connection with Puranic religion.