Buddhism
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Not All Our Ancestors Were “Just Hindu”
X.T.M rejects the claim in Aslan Pahari’s videos that Pakistanis’ pre-Islamic ancestors were uniformly Hindu. He argues the pre-8th-century Indus region was layered and regional, with Buddhists in Sindh, later…
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Pan-Sindhi Cross-Border Virality
X.T.M uses a viral Sindhi song to argue that Islam is native to Sindh after 13 centuries. He says Hindus stayed around 30 per cent while Buddhism vanished, because social…
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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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📊 Brown Pundits Hits 63,094 Visits in August (+156% Surge)
Open thread marking 63,094 site visits in August. Topics include a commenter’s tone, Indian media reaction to the India–Pakistan cricket match, viral social media items, and whether Buddhism’s decline in…
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History Podcast Episode 12: Social Milieu of North India 700-1200AD
In episode 12 of the history podcast, Mukunda and Jay talk to Maneesh Taneja about the cultural and social milieu of North India from 700 to 1200 AD: the waning…
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Book Review: Saartha – 8th Century India recreated
Nachiketa praises S. L. Bhyrappa’s novel Saartha, a first-person journey of a Brahmana in eighth-century India, for bringing a real historical world to life in its own zeitgeist, including debates…
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Episode 10: North India – before and after Harsha
Gaurav and Jay join Maneesh in the History of India series to discuss North India before and after Harsha: political splintering after the Guptas, the Kumbha Mela, declining trade, urban…
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The truth still matters
Razib Khan disputes a claim that vegetarianism was a Brahmin invention, arguing the standard account is that Sramanic movements such as Jainism and Buddhism drove the shift and Brahmin ritualism…
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Early Hinduism – the epic stratification
Nachiketa offers a self-described highly speculative account of how jati-varna stratification emerged, bringing together early Indian texts and the Sramana traditions of Buddhists, Jainas and Ajivikas, and contrasting their detailed…
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Hinduism in Afghanistan
The author argues against the claim that there was no Hindu Afghanistan: evidence of Hinduism is overwhelming, beginning in Indo-Greek times around 180 BCE with Indian iconography on coins found…
