Demography
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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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London(istan)
The author observes that the English of the Home Counties are more guarded about demographic change than Scots, and adds that South Asians always see themselves as a minority because…
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The passing
Reading Pankaj Mishra’s New York Times op-ed on white nationalism, the author argues that even progressive whites show revealed preferences for living among other whites, citing Bill Clinton’s own town,…
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Children’s Day
Marking Children’s Day in India, argues that societies fretting about being ‘outbred’ need a cultural, not legal, approach to child-rearing, with couples securing their careers first.
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The Myth of Muslim Fecundity?
Using Ambedkar’s book on Pakistan and 1935 figures for Sindh and Bengal, the author argues non-Muslim population shares have held up despite poorer Muslim minorities, and that the ‘myth of…
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Life expectancy in South Asia
Posts a table of life expectancy by Indian state, led by Kerala, and remarks on the curious contrast between Assam and Bangladesh.
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India = Nigeria + Italy in terms of fertility
Using district-level data, argues that comparing India with Pakistan and Bangladesh is a major error, since parts of the northern Hindi belt and Northeast have Nigeria-like fertility of five to…
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Another reason to hate Putin; fewer abortions?
The poster notes that Russian abortions fell from 2.5 per live birth in the 1990s to 0.42 after Putin took power, and wonders whether the West resents Russia’s resurgence or…
