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The Pandits who read Brown Pundits
X.T.M reports on the 2026 reader survey: thirty respondents, a May audience of about 61,000 visits, and a readership described as bound by shared interests but almost entirely male, forward-caste…
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The invisibility of caste in Pakistan
Bombay Badshah rebuts Kabir on caste, arguing that Indian commenters have not needed to leave home to be educated as Pakistani ones did, that India outperforms Pakistan, and that caste…
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Caste & British Pakistani Grooming Gangs
A thread on Pakistan and North India, then caste among British Pakistanis, ending with a pointed question linking a Mirpuri-origin community to child sexual abuse cases in Rotherham and Oxford,…
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Who Sees? A Caste Audit of an Anonymous Elite Indian Hospital
A surname-level audit of an anonymised elite Indian hospital, and what it tells us about reservation, fellowship capture, and how prestige sub-specialties reproduce themselves outside the reach of the Mandal…
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Why Caste Formed In India and how the heck it could have been maintained! – A Structural Model
Dr Rajorshi Datta argues that strict caste endogamy in India came from structural predisposition rather than luck, using a model of subcontinents as ‘containers’ and upstream geographic and ecological variables.…
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Conversion out of Hinduism and Caste
The post argues that the popular idea that caste explains medieval conversion to Islam and Christianity does not fit the evidence: regions with the least rigid caste had the most…
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The Brahmins behind April’s Traffic
April 2026 traffic report: one 2019 post on Brahmin castes brings 16 per cent of organic traffic, readers come mainly from Canada, India and the US, and the authors read…
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The Shijrah and the Y-Chromosome
A sequel arguing that BB and Qureshi reach the same wrong conclusion on Sayyid ancestry by different routes. The post contends that Y-chromosome evidence retains paternal descent that autosomal arithmetic…
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Open Thread: Who Would Be India’s Best Prime Minister, And Why?
Open Thread asking who has been India’s best prime minister among the 14, judged on criteria such as economic stewardship, institutional integrity and crisis management, with a fact sheet on…
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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…
