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Sting of a WASP
The author, who says he stands with Dalits, argues that Western vilification of India’s upper castes is unhelpful, that those castes are shrinking through migration, intermarriage and low fertility as…
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Smash the Brahmanical Patriarchy
A satirical take on the Indian Twitter row involving Jack Dorsey and Lewis Hamilton, mimicking demands for bans and public shaming, while the author argues the British had a keen…
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Indian culture started when the British arrived: tales of shadology
Citing a study of skin-colour bias in arranged Indian marriages, the author notes fair-skinned candidates were preferred and found no sex difference, and turns to the paper’s framing of colour…
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Skin color of South Asian groups
Prompted by a new review of the genetics of human skin, the author shares melanin-index data for Indian caste groups from a paper on South Asian skin colour, set against…
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Upward mobility in India by geography
Shares a figure from a paper on intergenerational mobility in India, noting that others are discussing its caste results while the poster wants to draw attention to geography.
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Perhaps India is not special in resisting Islamicization
Reading on imperial China, the author reconsiders why India, unlike Iran, resisted total Islamicisation, arguing that Han resilience makes India less exceptional, and that conversion of some elites and oppressed…
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Why this kolaveri di on Indian genetics
Objects to a caption in an article on Indian genetics that treats high-caste Hindus as the prototypical Indians, calling the association in poor taste.
