Gandhara
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Sizdeh Bedar, Identity Whiplash & the Gandharan Delusion
After a break around Sizdeh Bedar, the author reflects on being a 1.5-generation migrant who is neither quite immigrant nor native. He also dismisses Pakistani claims to be the last…
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Showing an early entry of steppe ancestry into India
The author challenges claims that steppe ancestry entered India only in the late Iron Age or Early Historic period, using the geography of routes from the steppe, patterns of modern…
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Browncast: Omar Ali on Pakistan, Myths and Realities
Reversing roles, Maneesh Taneja interviews Omar Ali on Pakistan’s ideology, Partition, why the army rules and how India-Pakistan relations may evolve; errata correct the Indian army’s share of Muslims at…
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Afghanistan’s History
The author gathers proposed etymologies for Afghanistan’s name, from ‘Upa-Gana-stan’ to Panini’s Ashvakana, and repeats a linked article’s claims that Pashtuns descend from Vedic tribes and that Hindu rulers and…
