Communalism
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Does the average muslim ‘dislike hindus’?
RecoveringNewsJunkie rejects a commenter’s claim that the average Muslim dislikes Hindus. The post argues that treating hundreds of millions as one mindset ignores regional and class differences, that political and…
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The Inward Turn: Muslim Politics in the Indian Subcontinent from the Fall of the Mughals to the Present
Omar Ali reposts, with permission, vidurascounsel’s Substack essay of 13 April 2026 on the inward turn in Muslim politics in the subcontinent. It traces the arc from Mughal decline through…
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The Patiala Problem
Recounts a story told at a Cambridge gathering of a Hindu neighbourhood in Patiala fearing men in Muslim dress, who turned out to be selling walnuts, and argues that honest…
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Browncast Ep 38: Indian Elections
On Browncast Episode 38, hosts and guests MJ, Kushal and Vidhi debate India’s 2019 election, covering caste dynamics, the BJP’s rise in Bengal and Odisha, personality politics, communalism, and a…
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Against being an intellectual subaltern
Razib Khan points to a long essay on his other weblog attacking reductive postcolonialism in Indian history and communal divisions, written after a tweet, and quotes its opening about a…
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Indians in Kerala are less religiously polarized, those in Bihar are more polarized
Razib Khan uses World Values Survey regional data to check commenters’ claims, finding trust across religions is highest in Kerala and lowest in Bihar. He cautions that single results need…
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Mother India is Communal
Responding to Arfa Khanum Sherwani’s tweet calling ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ communal, the author finds the objection absurd and asks why such Muslim liberals police Indian society rather than challenge…
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The Crime of being a Muslim
X.T.M cites a report that a Sikh police officer saved a Muslim man from a mob for standing near a temple with a Hindu girl, with student Umar Khalid’s tribute…
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Babri Masjid Redux (just say no)
The author says to reject any twenty-first-century sequel to Babri, argues that attacks on minorities cause electoral backlash, and that Dalits’ concern is survival, not religious label, while backing the…
