Colonialism
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India that is Bharat — The Good, the Bad and the Overstated
Nachiketa gives a detailed review of J. Sai Deepak’s India That Is Bharat, finding its research and sourcing sound and its main contribution the claim that ‘coloniality’ obstructs Bharatiya potential,…
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David Berlinski Reviews Pankaj Mishra
Omar Ali promotes David Berlinski’s review of Pankaj Mishra’s essay collection Bland Fanatics, quoting excerpts and linking his own earlier rants, in which he dismisses Mishra as good for virtue…
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Hazaras, and Divide and Rule in the British Empire
Major Amin argues the Hazaras were victims of British divide-and-rule, citing a family account that Hazara soldiers’ defection in Iran ended their recruitment to the British Indian Army, and says…
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America has been good to immigrants and we should be honest about who we are
Razib Khan clarifies his Unherd piece: he argues that some South Asian American social justice activists claim the weight of colonialism and oppression to add to their authority despite privileged…
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People of Indian ancestry need to learn things outside of India or they will sound stupid
Razib Khan answers a commenter who compares Islamic invasions of India to Christian conquests in the Americas, arguing the Spanish aimed to extract rents rather than slaughter, that disease caused…
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The shadow of the crescent
Razib Khan argues that modern Indian and Hindu mentality, secularist or Hindutva, is shaped by a double colonial layer of Islamic and Western rule. He finds postcolonial theory unhelpful as…
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humblebragging History-
Mocks a tweet crediting the Greeks with the Ramayana, saying it reflects a subtle bias that inflates Greco-Roman achievement at other civilisations’ expense and justifies colonialism.
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The limits of semantics; Hindus before Hinduism
The author argues that the claim that the British ‘invented’ Hinduism rests on a narrow, philosopher-driven idea of religion, pointing to al-Biruni’s recognisable description of Hindu belief, practice and communal…
