Bengali Muslims
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A Republic Cannot Deport, Humiliate or “Outbreed” Its Own People
X.T.M argues that the reported deportation of an Indian family to Bangladesh without due process shows a state confusing language with nationality and religion with foreignness, and that citizenship is…
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Islam on the fringes
Razib Khan reads Richard Eaton’s India in the Persianate Age, noting Mughal accounts of Muslim peasant pockets in 16th-century eastern Bengal and the thesis, which he finds broadly credible but…
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Assam register: Four million risk losing India citizenship
Reproduces extracts of a report that four million people in Assam risk losing Indian citizenship under the NRC, with the poster’s comment that India is being too draconian on the…
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Bangladeshis are very East Asian, Sri Lankan Tamils are not quite as structured
Razib Khan argues that Bengalis are substantially East Asian in ancestry, with little West Asian admixture even among Bengali Muslims, and that Sri Lankan Tamils are less genetically structured than…
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The Myth of Muslim Fecundity?
Using Ambedkar’s book on Pakistan and 1935 figures for Sindh and Bengal, the author argues non-Muslim population shares have held up despite poorer Muslim minorities, and that the ‘myth of…
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Brand Brown Muslim
Prompted by Zia Haider Rahman’s novel, the author argues that Pakistan’s founders had a point about a Sunni ‘Medina in South Asia’, that East and West Pakistan may reconnect, and…
