Brown PunditsA Deccani miniature of a dancing girl tying her hair, Golconda, about 1700

The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself

Hindu Shahis

  • Hinduism in Afghanistan

    The author argues against the claim that there was no Hindu Afghanistan: evidence of Hinduism is overwhelming, beginning in Indo-Greek times around 180 BCE with Indian iconography on coins found…

  • Afghanistan was never “Hindu”

    Razib Khan argues Afghanistan was never ‘Hindu’ in any comprehensible sense: its highlands were heavily Buddhist until about 900 AD, and he sees the area as a crossroads of Persian,…

    Razib Khan4 September 202148 comments
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