Brown PunditsA Deccani miniature of a dancing girl tying her hair, Golconda, about 1700

The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself

Chitral

  • The Sintashta shamans

    Razib Khan wonders whether the Kalash of Chitral, about 30 per cent Sintashta in ancestry, can show what early Indo-Aryan belief was like, noting their mountain shamanism resembles steppe shamanism…

  • The end of the Kalash is nigh

    The author argues that the end of the Kalash is near, since educated young women are reportedly converting to Islam and their high fertility can no longer offset conversions, and…

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