April 2026
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India is the successor state of the Mughal Empire (and the various Sultanates)
The post argues the Republic of India is the successor state of the Mughal Empire: it holds about 70 per cent of the empire’s land, and its capitals, ruling core…
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Pakistani Diversity
I have never actually met a Pakistani who thinks they are Arab or Turk ethnically. Claiming lineage is not ethnicity.
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You Cannot Demolish His Mosque and Claim His High Culture
The post argues a civilisation cannot demolish a man’s mosque and claim his high culture too. It says elites on both sides of the 1947 line have done both for…
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Dhurandhar releasing in Japan
On Dhurandhar’s release in Japan, the author notes the appeal of Japanese film posters and Indian cinema’s push for global audiences, and argues that as Bollywood grows, foreign perceptions of…
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Gurdaspur and Siliguri: The Two Necks That Held
The post argues that Pakistan opted out of the subcontinent, and that India kept both strategic ‘necks’, Gurdaspur and Siliguri, in 1947 and 1971, so claims that India is a…
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India and Pakistan Are Playing Chicken; simply to hurt themselves
Two nuclear states with shared languages, shared music, and shared families are accelerating away from each other, each waiting for the other to swerve. Neither is. Both are losing. A…
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The 1000 Years Frame Erases 80% of India
Two of girmit’s sharpest comment-thread interventions: why the further application of the Two Nation Theory finds no liberal takers in India, and why the maximalist “1000 years of Islamic supremacy”…
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Pakistani Centrists, Not Muslim Extremists
X.T.M sets a moderation standard: Pakistani commenters on the site are centrists, not extremists, and illiberal arguments stay up so long as they stop short of incitement. A Pakistani commenter…
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Two Colonisations, One Border: What the Data Actually Says About Bengal’s Post-1971 Demographic Story
X.T.M argues census data tell two stories of demographic change in eastern India: Bengali Hindus settled Tripura with state sanction, while Muslim growth in Assam and Bengal border districts is…
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Honour and Acid: The Great Indus Split
X.T.M tests the claim that honour killing is Pakistan’s inheritance from Indus culture and acid attacks India’s. The data are messy and undercounted, but the line broadly holds. Both practices…
