Indian Muslims
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The Unfinished Contract II: Citizenship, Partition, and the Questions Liberalism Won’t Ask
X.T.M argues that Partition left India with an unresolved social contract: citizenship for Muslims who stayed was declared, never constituted, and secularism became a way to avoid the question. He…
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The Partition of Elites: India, Pakistan, and the Unfinished Trauma of 1947
X.T.M argues that India’s central trauma is Partition rather than diversity, framing it as a failure of two elites to share power. He says most Muslims stayed after the League’s…
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Enough with the
Kabir says he is not inventing victimhood but calling out anti-Pakistan and anti-Muslim bias among BP’s commenters, and asks why no Indian Muslims comment here.
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What are the Genetics and archaeogenetics of the Indian Muslims?
Links a Reddit thread asking about the genetics and archaeogenetics of Indian Muslims, with a one-line remark that it would be interesting if true.
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The Honey Trap of the Ummah:
X.T.M argues that a dispute with commenters exposes the fault lines in the India–Pakistan–Muslim triad. He contends that Indian minorities have accepted an unspoken compact of living within an increasingly…
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The Pakistani Inferiority Complex
X.T.M argues that Pakistan’s elite is marked by an inferiority complex towards Arab, Turkish, Persian and Afghan Muslims, which he links to the country’s low human development and its anxieties…
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Visibility, Voice, and the Indian Muslim Dilemma
X.T.M reads the prominence of Muslim families in BBC coverage of the Ahmedabad plane crash as showing three things: selective visibility, Indian Muslim emigration, and a surprising willingness to speak…
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Was Partition Good for Muslims?
X.T.M argues that Partition, sold as deliverance, was a sophisticated act of self-disinheritance for South Asian Muslims, leaving them divided across three states, without electoral leverage, with a psychological cleft,…
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Is It Indian Culture or Hindu (Brahmin) Culture that creates excellence?
Prompted by Faizan Zaki’s Scripps Spelling Bee win, X.T.M asks whether Indian-American excellence stems from Indian culture or specifically Hindu and Brahmin culture, arguing it is encoded in the cultural…
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India’s Demographic Nervous System: Partition, Federalism, and the Fear of Muslim Majority Provinces
The author suggests that post-Partition India’s large states were calibrated to avoid creating new Muslim-majority provinces, and links that anxiety to Kashmir’s special status and the origins of its insurgency,…
