Short note and link
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The Peshawar Review
X.T.M lists the contents of the October issue of The Peshawar Review, including pieces by Anjum Altaf on September Eleven and Harbans Mukhia’s memoir of Dr K. M. Ashraf, and…
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Tariq Ali on the Resistance..
Omar Ali reposts a mock press release he says he wrote over twenty years ago, forecasting an Islamic-socialist revolution in Pakistan, as a comment on a recent tweet by Tariq…
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Parsis, DNA and steppe incursions
Indosaurus announces his long-promised article on Parsi matrilineal DNA and steppe ancestry, published on his Substack, and hopes Zoroastrians and Hindus can reclaim the name Aryan from racists.
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Happy Rakhi – what is a race?
X.T.M notes that the comment thread has turned to race and genetics, and says he may expand on how class, colour, creed, caste, genetics and community overlap.
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“Tamil” CMs
X.T.M, drawing on a News18 blog, notes that many Madras chief ministers were of Telugu descent, from Subbarayalu Reddiar onwards, and sees Tamil Nadu’s “distinct” identity as compatible with a…
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3 Graphs of Karnataka
X.T.M observes from three graphs of Karnataka that many South Indian Muslims seem to be “Urdufying”, and wonders whether East Bengal might have followed a linguistic path to Urdu and…
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South India funds India?
X.T.M comments on a chart suggesting the southern states and the old Punjab subsidise the rest of India, links the south’s position to Partition’s contest over rich regions, and compares…
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The Stans
X.T.M shares a chart from @DailyTurkic of Pew data on adults who pray five times a day in the “Stan” countries. He notes that Persianate Tajikistan and Afghanistan are more…
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Bangladesh-India Open Thread
A reproduced news report, source not named, on Bangladesh’s anger at India for letting the ousted Sheikh Hasina address journalists in New Delhi; the post is titled an open thread…
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Qawwali in Chennai
X.T.M notes the launch of the Unruly Bodies Art Exhibition in Chennai, with Tamil, Sanskrit and Hindi heard, and a friend’s correction that the music was Carnatic rather than Hindustani.