Indic civilisation
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Bengal and Dharma: A Recipe for Revival
Reposted from the author’s Medium page, this essay argues that Dharmic civilisation has lost ground over centuries, including Punjab, Sindh and Bengal, and that reviving Bengal means going back to…
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Open Thread – 2/6/2021
Also, we have a new Browncast:
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The material wages of caste
Razib Khan sets aside the arguments over caste, varna and jati and asks what caste has meant materially, for wealth and work.
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Abhinav and me: genetics and India
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Book Review: Islamic Empires- Fifteen Cities that Define a Civilization
Reviewing Justin Marozzi’s Islamic Empires, the reviewer argues that Indic and Islamic civilisations contrast in how they value the urban: Dharmic thought favours solitude and the forest, while Islam has…
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Problems with the terms INDIC and DHARMIC
The author says he cringes at the terms Indic and Dharmic, now popular with the rise of Hindutva as umbrella words for native Indian faiths, arguing Indic first described Indo-Aryan…
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Economic data on South Asia
So what are the reasons for various differences statistically?
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Will the Sikhs Save India?
Omar Ali explains his tweet that Sikhs might restore balance to India: he argues Sikhism is an Indic religion, with Islamicate vocabulary but not Islamic in any strong sense, and…
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Open Thread – 09/12/2020
Have at it.
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The Middle Path: Towards a Liberal Conservatism in India (Part 1)
In the first of three posts, the author answers Slapstik’s ‘Indian woke wears saffron’, arguing that the Bhakti movement was no rupture from earlier Dharmic traditions, that Congress had indigenous-minded…
