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The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself

Rajputs

  • Episode 19 – The Rajputs

    Episode 19 of the BrownCast, on the Rajputs, with a reference list including C. V. Vaidya’s early history of the Rajputs, Andre Wink’s Al-Hind volumes, and works on the Hunas…

    BrownCast · with Nachiketa11 March 20233 comments
  • 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…

    Razib Khan20 January 202083 comments
  • Turanistan & the Scythians of India

    Observes that the largest concentrations of Scythians are in the Subcontinent’s border zones, recalling that Gujjars, Kambojas, Rajputs and Jats have Scythic or Iranian associations, and that these northwestern invaders…

    X.T.M30 July 201884 comments
  • Indian representative

    On the model Koyal Rana, the poster traces the Rana name to Rajput kings of Rajasthan and Nepal and lists Pakistani public figures with the surname, remarking that caste survives…

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