Hinduism
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A vision for solving India’s caste social crises
Razib Khan argues that jati-varna helped India resist Islamisation but is now a problem, calls caste-based reservations socially toxic and economically inefficient, and expects falling endogamy to dissolve the system…
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Hinduism will die, and Hinduism will live
Razib Khan answers Hindus who lament their religion’s weakness, arguing that 1.2 billion adherents and great internal variation make extinction implausible, that jati-varna’s flexibility helped Hinduism survive Islam, and that…
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Caste and California: the lawsuits are in!
Reacting to two Hindu professors suing the California State University system over adding caste to its anti-discrimination policy, Razib Khan calls the policy impractical and wrongheaded, arguing that there are…
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Episode 8: The Guptas and Classical Age of India
Gaurav Lele and Jay Vardhan, moderated by Maneesh Taneja, discuss the age of the Guptas in the History of India series: Samudragupta’s military record, the emergence of classical Hinduism, and…
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Browncast: Indic explorer on Hinduism, Dharma, etc
Mukunda and Omar talk with the anonymous Twitter account Indic Explorer about all things Indic, including how to define Hinduism, why it does not get the respect it deserves, and…
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On the Hindu contradiction of intents
Razib Khan calls calls for ghar wapsi, the return of non-Hindus to Hinduism, ‘kind of a joke’: he argues Hinduism is too community-oriented to absorb many converts, so reconversion is…
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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…
