Aurangzeb
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FlyDie, Volume Two
Nineteen more FlyDie comments across six threads: the three pillars of caste, what the Mughals took from the land, how the Rig Veda got written, Kerala’s three-cornered trade, and Bollywood…
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The Game We Can Smell
X.T.M argues that liberal-left language has become a disguise for Hinduphobia, and that Hindus are expected to love the Mughals. After the death of Asha Bhosle, the post says Partition…
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Caste, Aurangzeb, and the Price of Belonging
In four notes the author rejects chasing past voices, warns of a Saffronite echo chamber, argues that avoiding talk of caste preserves privilege, and says Aurangzeb is not a hill…
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Come Fly with me to Far Bombay
Writing from Bombay, X.T.M ranges across commentariat debates, praises Sher Shah Suri over the Mughals, comments on Hindutva and liberal intelligentsia, argues renaming Indian cities cost brand value, and sees…
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Open Thread: Rasam, Stray Dogs, and the Battle Over India’s Story
Open thread from Chennai. X.T.M links rasam, Delhi’s stray-dog removal order, Pakistan Cricket Board revenue-sharing and fresh claims on Aurangzeb to a single struggle over who owns the narrative of…
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Norouz or Nowhere: The Identity Pakistan Can’t Claim
X.T.M asks why Pakistanis who claim a Persianate high culture ignore Norouz, noting that Aurangzeb abolished it, and argues that Pakistan’s post-colonial elite curates rupture rather than heritage, even though…
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Aurangzeb’s daughter
Posted by Peter Nemetz.
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On the Great Mughals: Indian or not?
Looking at portraits of Akbar and Shah Jahan, the author argues the Mughals were neither simply Indian nor simply colonisers: their ancestry was mixed, Sunni orthodoxy grew after Akbar, and…
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Episode 17: Mughals-the socio-cultural milieu and their Decline
In BrownCast episode 17, Maneesh Taneja speaks to Jay and Omar Ali about the socio-cultural milieu of the Mughals and their decline, the second of two Mughal episodes; the Sikhs,…
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Book Review: India, Bharat and Pakistan – a Not so Gentle Reminder
Nachiketa reviews J Sai Deepak’s second India that is Bharat book, on the period from the Mughal decline to the Khilafat movement, agreeing with its overall thrust, including that the…
