Tamil
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FlyDie on South India
X.T.M reposts FlyDie’s comments on South India. FlyDie argues that Tamil Nadu’s elite traces to Telugu country through the Vijayanagara Nayaks, that pre-colonial empires ran on a shared elite culture,…
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“Tamil” CMs
X.T.M, drawing on a News18 blog, notes that many Madras chief ministers were of Telugu descent, from Subbarayalu Reddiar onwards, and sees Tamil Nadu’s “distinct” identity as compatible with a…
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Dravidian Progressivism is a Scam
Nachiketa answers X.T.M on Chennai, arguing that the city’s welfare and cleanliness cannot simply be credited to Dravidian progressivism, pointing to Tamil Nadu’s 97 percent caste endogamy rate and describing…
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Chennai Is Not an Accident
X.T.M observes that Chennai retains a non-transactional social reflex, with strangers helping unasked, and attributes it to Tamil language, Dravidian suspicion of centralisation, unstaged religious pluralism and weak chain retail,…
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Multi Racial Multi Cultural Family in Ceylon
Sbarrkum recounts his mother’s multiracial family in Galle, mixing Sinhalese, Irish, Jaffna Tamil and Barbadian ancestry, and argues that children of mixed marriages belong to no single community and so…
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Why does the West get Immigrants and not Indigenous
Sereno Barr-Kumarakulasinghe argues that Western countries prefer immigrants to indigenous populations for the same reason the British brought undocumented indentured Indian labour to Ceylon: people without legal status are easier…
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Episode 7: South of India from 200 BC to 500 AD
Maneesh talks with Jay and Shrikanth in the History of India series, which crosses the Vindhyas into the Deccan, about South India from 200 BC to 500 AD, with long…
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Brown Pundits Browncast episode 51: Scratching the surface on Sri Lanka
A BrownCast episode in which the host talks to ‘Nan’, a Sri Lankan Tamil American raised in the American South, about his background and why Sri Lankans see themselves as…
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BP Podcast episode 49: Hindi as the lingua franca
A BrownCast episode in which Shoaib, Abhisek and the host discuss the recent Tamil-Hindi controversy, limited to North India as the South Indian guest could not join, with a note…
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South Indian Languages podcast
Zack hopes to record a podcast on South Indian languages this weekend at a guest commentator’s request, to correct the North India bias in the discourse, and asks readers for…
