Two Nation Theory
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Open thread: Open Season
Open Thread “Open Season”, 29 August 2026. Admin sets up a weekly, unmoderated thread for arguments, and asks whether pointless debate serves any purpose, from relitigating the Two-Nation Theory to…
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Did the British Divide India?
Omar Ali argues that Pakistan was ultimately the Muslim League’s creation, but that some British rulers promoted it for their own ends: divide and rule, the Congress stance in 1939,…
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Open Thread: The Courtesy Guidance & the Two Factions (Majority vs. Minority)
X.T.M’s open thread describes BP’s two factions, majority and minority, and argues the Courtesy Guidance should give minority commenters latitude without letting either side provoke; the Ceasefire stays lapsed for…
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Pakistan, the Successor State to Islamistan
Pakistan is usually read as drifting ever deeper into theocracy. We argue the reverse: its elite has quietly secularised, keeping Islam as the national language while shedding it as the…
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Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose
Comparing the 2020 and 2026 open-thread arguments over Mughlai food, the post says the debate is a ritual re-enactment of Partition, while diaspora restaurants, constrained by no pork, no beef…
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The Hindification of East India
Bihar, Odisha, Assam, and now Bengal: the old Bengal Presidency votes as a single saffron block. A century after the bhadralok forced Curzon to reunite Bengal, their grandchildren have completed…
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The 1000 Years Frame Erases 80% of India
Two of girmit’s sharpest comment-thread interventions: why the further application of the Two Nation Theory finds no liberal takers in India, and why the maximalist “1000 years of Islamic supremacy”…
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Men of State, and the Great Mahatma
X.T.M sets four house positions: Jinnah and Nehru were men of state, judged as builders of states; Gandhi was a man of Dharma, a different category; Ambedkar is a constitutional…
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Op Sindoor Was Not a Pakistani Defeat: Precedents Two Days From Pahalgam
Two days from the Pahalgam anniversary, three precedents worth setting down before the narrative hardens: Sindoor was not a Pakistani defeat, the Crescent commentariat cannot keep living Western lives while…
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Pakistanis = Indian Muslims With Sovereignty?
X.T.M argues that Pakistanis are in effect Indian Muslims who gained sovereignty, and asks what it cost. The post says Partition gave sovereignty to two-thirds of the pre-1947 Muslim population,…
