Mongol Empire
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Haunted by history
Razib Khan compares how Genghis Khan is remembered, as a hero in Mongolia and a prestigious ancestor to Muslim dynasties despite mass destruction, with attitudes to Aurangzeb, asking how historical…
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A Mongol India, a pagan India?
Taking up a Twitter counterfactual, the author asks what might have followed had the Mongols destroyed the Delhi Sultanate, surveying how the Mongol khanates adopted Islam or Buddhism to speculate…
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Years of Rice and Lentils
Prompted by Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Years of Rice and Salt, the author poses a thought experiment: what if the Rajputs had halted Turco-Muslim expansion beyond Sindh and parts of…
