Hindu-Muslim relations
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Hinduphobia Exists, But Pakistan Was Not Born from It
X.T.M argues that Hinduphobia exists, mostly as dismissal and erasure in academic and diasporic discourse, but that Pakistan was not born of it. He sees the Partition as a Muslim…
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Open Thread: Rasam, Stray Dogs, and the Battle Over India’s Story
Open thread from Chennai. X.T.M links rasam, Delhi’s stray-dog removal order, Pakistan Cricket Board revenue-sharing and fresh claims on Aurangzeb to a single struggle over who owns the narrative of…
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Denial Isn’t Just a River in Egypt—It’s a Dammed Indus Too
X.T.M rejects a commenter’s claim that caste does not exist in Pakistan, citing biradari, zaat and ashraf–ajlaf hierarchies, and argues that saying Hindus ‘left’ in 1947 erases a violent dislocation.
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Demographic Destiny: Power and Identity in India
X.T.M surveys how demography shapes talk of destiny and identity in India, from the Hindi belt’s ‘cradle race’ to long-run shifts in the Hindu share of the subcontinent’s population, which…
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Khalid Baig on Indian Nationalism and Islam
In a BP Podcast, Gaurav talks to Khalid Baig, described as an Indian nationalist, about Indian nationalism, Hindu-Muslim relations, Hindutva and India’s future; Baig also co-hosts the YouTube show India…
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Epoche and detachment in analysis
Razib Khan criticises hyperbolic emotionality in subcontinental debate, arguing that the Mughals were largely a colonial, alien power extracting rents, that Muslims admire them uncritically, and that Hindu claims of…
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On Ahmadiyyas and Jains
The author argues that Hindu treatment of Jains and Muslim treatment of Ahmadiyyas show why Hindus and Muslims differ: for Hindus culture almost always trumps religion, while hostility to Ahmadiyyas…
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Their Muslim Problem—And Ours
On the row over an advertisement showing an interfaith marriage, the author argues critics dodge its gendered side, since Islam allows Muslim men but not women to marry out, and…
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Pakistan and India: Why Did They Diverge?
Omar Ali reproduces a Twitter thread by @FrankBullit67 on why India and Pakistan diverged after Partition, with his own comments under each section, and adds that the two may not…
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The anxieties behind narrative of “Love Jihad”
Drawing on Ambedkar’s Pakistan or the Partition of India, Nachiketa argues that the ‘love jihad’ narrative reflects Hindu anxieties about contact between Hindu women and Muslim men under purdah and…
