Indo-Gangetic Plain
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Partition’s Impact on India’s Regional Quadrants
Argues that Partition reshaped five regional quadrants of undivided India. It fragmented Punjab and the Indo-Gangetic heartland, diminished Bengal by splitting Kolkata from Dhaka, cut Bombay off from Karachi, and…
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Dammed it you dont: The hydraulic origins of the divergence between the Raj, India and Pakistan
The author argues that attitudes to water explain the divergence of the Raj, India and Pakistan: the Gangetic plain needed no dams, peninsular India did, and India’s later dam building…
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Lord Indra the brutal!
Assuming an Indo-Aryan intrusion around 1500 BC, Razib Khan estimates 10-20 per cent Indo-Aryan ancestry in the Gangetic plains and argues, from admixture patterns, that the intrusion may have caused…
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Why was India richer than Iran or Afghanistan-
Replying to a Twitter thread on why India was richer than Iran or Afghanistan, the author suggests the fertile Indo-Gangetic plains fared better than Mesopotamia and the Nile because they…
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What does it mean to be “Brown?”
Disliking ‘Brown’ as a New World term, the author prefers ‘desi’, and argues its haziness is its strength: it centres on the Indo-Gangetic plain, fades in Sri Lanka, Nepal and…
