Sindhis
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Pakistani Diversity
I have never actually met a Pakistani who thinks they are Arab or Turk ethnically. Claiming lineage is not ethnicity.
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Brown Pundits Browncast episode 52: Sahil Handa, National Review intern and cosmopolitan conservative
A BrownCast episode on cosmopolitan conservatism with Sahil Handa, a National Review writer and Harvard student raised north of London, whose father is a Punjabi from Kenya and whose mother…
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The Five Great Brahmin Castes and their proclivities
Zach muses on Brahmin sub-castes, saying north-western communities such as Sindhis and Punjabis pursue different professions, and speculates that exposure to Islamicate ways reduced inclination for science. He also defends…
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Pakistan’s Ghost in the Indus
Recounting a shop encounter in Cambridge with a father and son who first said they were Indians, then Gujarati Sindhis, the author reflects on his intuition for ‘people of the…
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Why India looks West not East
Answering Razib’s question on why India does not look towards China, the author offers three reasons: Sindhi diaspora ties, lingering colonial institutions, and the claim that India’s high culture was…
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Thoughts on the Open thread
Setting out eight personal observations prompted by an open thread: Sindhi identity splits by religion since 1947, ethnicity and religion shape intermarriage, Indian Hindus and Muslims differ on Pakistan, India…
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23 & Vidhi
X.T.M jokes about marrying a Pakistani, then muses on the ancestry of Sindhi Hindus from Punjabi Khatris who moved down the Indus, and on why Sindhis love Dubai.
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Genetic variation in South Asia
In a quick data post, Razib Khan uses a map, an Fst tree, PCA and Treemix to show that South Asian groups, such as Gujaratis, Sindhis and Telugus, differ far…
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Bombay – the Billionaire’s playground
X.T.M muses that Sindhis include many millionaires but fewer billionaires, and that Bombay’s overlapping circle of politicians, cricketers, Bollywood and industrial families is creating an elite unlike any other, with…
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The Bollywood caste
X.T.M calls Bollywood a caste of linked acting, industrial and cricketing families, mostly Punjabi and Muslim men, wonders where the Sikh men are, and argues that India’s modernisation, shaped by…
