religious conversion
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Nikki Haley shows she’s a good politician in regards to religion too
The author praises Nikki Haley’s political skill, contrasting her low-key handling of religion with Bobby Jindal’s open Christian faith, and notes she says the Sikh gurdwara remains part of her…
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Perhaps India is not special in resisting Islamicization
Reading on imperial China, the author reconsiders why India, unlike Iran, resisted total Islamicisation, arguing that Han resilience makes India less exceptional, and that conversion of some elites and oppressed…
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India as the hydra against Islam
Razib Khan asks why India stayed mostly non-Muslim after some five centuries of Muslim rule, and rejects the claim that violent resistance explains it, noting that Iran’s Tabaristan kept Zoroastrian…
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Can Hinduism Survive?
Asking whether Hinduism can survive, the author contrasts liberal Hindus who say it is not in danger with Hindu nationalists who often fear that better-organised Abrahamic religions are taking over…
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Taimur or Faiz Ali Khan
X.T.M reacts to reports about naming a Bollywood couple’s son, arguing India lets film figures off lightly, that a name should balance a child’s mixed heritage, and that unilateral transmission…
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Babri Masjid Redux (just say no)
The author says to reject any twenty-first-century sequel to Babri, argues that attacks on minorities cause electoral backlash, and that Dalits’ concern is survival, not religious label, while backing the…
