Pashtuns
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Open Thread – 08/20/2021 – Brown Pundits
Open thread for 20 August 2021, opening with a note that the author will host a Pathan genetics and history room on Clubhouse.
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The Jat Gene!
Razib Khan plots Jat samples on PCA and admixture charts, finding them at the ANI end of the cline and distinct from Pashtuns and especially Baloch, who show more West…
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Pathans between Hind and Iran
Genetic charts showing that Pakistani ‘Pathan’ samples resemble Punjabis and sit slightly closer to UP Brahmins than to Iranians, while Afghan Pashtuns resemble Tajiks and sit slightly closer to Iranians.
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A single nation divided by a civilisation
The author argues India and Pakistan are one nation divided into two civilisations, while Iran and Afghanistan are one civilisation divided into two nations, citing Ferdowsi’s ‘Iranianisation’ and the Afghan,…
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Urdu as an intra-provincial link language
Picking up a reader’s point that Urdu binds ethnically diverse provinces, the author notes three Pakistani provinces have large linguistic minorities, discusses Pashtun expansion, the origin of the word vatan…
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Afghanistan’s History
The author gathers proposed etymologies for Afghanistan’s name, from ‘Upa-Gana-stan’ to Panini’s Ashvakana, and repeats a linked article’s claims that Pashtuns descend from Vedic tribes and that Hindu rulers and…
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The North-West Frontier in 1947
Military historian Hamid Hussain examines frontier policy at independence in 1947, including Governor George Cunningham’s role, the order of battle and the mobilisation of Pakhtun tribesmen to attack Kashmir, a…
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Pashtun power play(s)
The author argues that post-2014 Af-Pak may turn from a slow burn into a hot battlefield, that Pashtuns have never accepted the Durand Line, and that Pashtun nationalism allied with…
