Indo-Islamic culture
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The iPhone, Babur & are sons sold in shops?
A Dalit with an iPhone 16 has purchasing power, not the end of caste. And a Turkic sword at the birth of Indo-Islam is not a claim over South Asian…
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Who can speak for the “Muslim minority” of India?
X.T.M argues Indian Muslims cannot be compared with Jains, Sikhs or Buddhists, since they were once the civilisational elite of North India, and that listing successful individuals does not show…
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Why Hasn’t Pakistan Collapsed Yet?
X.T.M argues Pakistan has held together because it anchors a self-image drawn from the Lucknow-Delhi Indo-Muslim tradition, and that ownership of that legacy follows continuity among people, not territory, census…
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On the Question of Who “Owns” the Indo-Muslim Legacy
X.T.M, prompted by Sophia Khan’s piece on lost Muslim cities, argues Pakistanis with family roots in Delhi and Lucknow may fairly claim the Indo-Muslim legacy, since India itself selectively appropriates…
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The Hindification of Muslim Culture
X.T.M argues that India is seeing a slow Hindification of Muslim cultural inheritances, from khayal and Bollywood to cuisine, as Muslim political power recedes. He calls it succession rather than…
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Caste in America
The author argues that Brahmins are the civilisational custodians of the subcontinent and that anti-Brahmin undercurrents in some Dalit-justice coalitions risk cultural erasure, while supporting Dalit rights. He also revisits…
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From Yohani to Nora: How Bollywood Mughalizes Everything
Using Royals and the Manike Mage Hithe remix, X.T.M argues that Bollywood ‘Mughalizes’ regional inputs, so India kept the composite culture without religion while Pakistan kept the religion but lost…
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Should the Pakistani elite revive Sab-ki-Hindi (the Farsi of India).
Prompted by a Kathak performance, the author argues that the noblest thing Pakistan’s elite could do is revive the medieval Persian of India, completing the long Persianisation of the Indus…
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Between the saffron and scimitar
Starting from how the Islamic golden age is used for modern agendas, the author turns to Islam and India, describing the comment-section clash between a commenter who defends Indo-Islamic civilisation…
