Akhand Bharat
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Open Thread: The Courtesy Guidance & the Two Factions (Majority vs. Minority)
X.T.M’s open thread describes BP’s two factions, majority and minority, and argues the Courtesy Guidance should give minority commenters latitude without letting either side provoke; the Ceasefire stays lapsed for…
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India’s Eastern Face: Where Civilisation Dissolves Instead of Ending
X.T.M argues that India’s eastern edge differs from its hard northwest, northern and southern boundaries: it thins instead of ending. He says Indic culture spread to Southeast Asia through merchants…
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Pakistan and the Act of Union
X.T.M argues the only useful analogy for Pakistan ‘rejoining’ India is the 1707 Act of Union, an elite exit driven by insolvency and security, not affection, and says Pakistan’s debt…
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Caste, Civilisation, and the Courage to Own It
A short personal reply arguing that the author sees nothing wrong with Akhand Bharat or a broader Dharmic civilisation, that questioning caste identities should not be taboo, and that he…
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What is Akhand Bharat ?
Prompted by the Akhand Bharat maps used by the RSS and allied groups, the author asks what the historically fair boundaries of Indian civilisation were around 500, 1000 and 1500…
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Brown Pundits: Broad Church or Narrow Canon?
X.T.M answers Kabir’s charge of ‘soft Hindutva’ bias at Brown Pundits, arguing the forum’s bias is civilisational engagement rather than Hindutva, that Hindu introspection drives much of its energy, and…
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Addendum: On Labels, Nations and Misunderstandings
X.T.M adds that Indians and Pakistanis misread each other’s vocabulary and media, with India seeing itself as civilisational and Pakistan as ideological, and argues that curiosity rather than suspicion would…
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and What Is a Civilizational State?
X.T.M argues that moderation exists to keep open discussion open, then defines a civilisational state as a nation that sees itself as the continuation of an ancient cultural memory. On…
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Bharat Needs No Validation
X.T.M takes a commenter’s remark that the Ramayana did not resonate as a cue to argue that Bharat is civilisational, that Pakistan is an ‘Urdufied Punjab’ still colonised in mind,…
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Why Pakistan Is a Colonial Project & India a Civilizational One
X.T.M argues that Pakistan is a colonial continuation built by divide and rule, that India is a civilisational project, that the term ‘South Asia’ reflects a London-drawn map, and that…
