Hindu-Muslim relations
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Browncast Episode 109: Abhinav Prakash: Indian culture, society, and politics
In Browncast Episode 109, Razib talks to economist Abhinav Prakash about the culture of UP, BJP economic policy, Hindu identity, Hindu-Muslim relations in the state, regional differences, the Maratha mindset…
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Hindu racism against Muslims
Prompted by Mindy Kaling’s use of ‘racism’ for prejudice against Muslims, Razib Khan argues that both some Hindu nationalists and some Muslims treat Muslims as an alien race, although genetics…
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The Ram Mandir Verdict in India. From Dr Hamid Hussain
Hamid Hussain gives his personal reading of the Supreme Court’s November 2019 Ayodhya judgment, which awarded the site to Hindus after a decades-long dispute, against the background of the 1992…
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India’s Islam
An older post by The Emissary, revived from the archive, surveys Islam in India. The author states a negative view of its past impact and cites Will Durant, but wants…
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Hindutva jumped the shark
The author reacts with shock to a man who claims to speak for Muslims because his children’s nanny is one, comparing it to the film The Help and arguing that…
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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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How serious is the Hindu-Muslim conflict in India ?
Citing a scholar who finds continuity in BJP policy on minorities, the author argues Hindu-Muslim conflict is rather benign by the twentieth century’s standards, compared with Russia, China and Mexico,…
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BrownCast Podcast episode 22: Ajay Verghese on pre-colonial India, Hindus, Muslims, etc
The hosts talk to Ajay Verghese, an assistant professor of political science at UC Riverside who has written on ethnic and religious conflict in pre-colonial, colonial and independent India. They…
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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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Pakistani Perfidy & The Nehruvian Deep State
Zach cites a Pakistani Christian’s account of a Hindu family barred from buying a flat to argue that Pakistani minorities face everyday discrimination, and presses liberal Pakistanis to explain it.…
