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The Lutyens Brahmin & the Indian Muslim
X.T.M borrows the Boston Brahmin to describe India’s apex elite, admitted by assimilation, presentation and marriage, and asks whether the new Hindu order’s explicit loyalty tests for Indian Muslims expose…
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The Brahmin Civil War
Pattanaik gives us a priesthood in service — Baniya capital commanding, Brahmin ideology obeying. Look closer at the temple queue: the priesthood is in schism. Hindutva as an upper-caste revolt…
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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.
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Liberal college bastions are taking body blows
Indosaurus recounts the reported plagiarism affair around Cambridge professor Jason Arday, compares it with Claudine Gay’s ousting at Harvard, and asks whether Indians and Pakistanis back progressive causes abroad yet…
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Regency, Not Rupture in Pakistan (Open Thread)
Open thread: X.T.M reads interior minister Mohsin Naqvi’s claim that Pakistan’s governance system has collapsed as a sign the army needs no coup, arguing that the Twenty-Seventh Amendment already makes…
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For Gandhiji
Indosaurus, once unconvinced of Gandhi’s importance, defends him against attacks from the liberal left, which Indosaurus argues lack context, and links a longer Substack defence of his most contested behaviour…
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Erm
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Restore the Princes?
Under one paramountcy, Swat built three colleges and over three hundred schools while the Nawabs of Dir kept education out. Same institution, same security, opposite outcomes. Whatever the case for…
