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Back to SearchMargherita Trento et al., "For the Love of Tamil: Essays in Honor of E. Annamalai" (UnionPress, 2025)
Episode 638
For the Love of Tamil celebrates the life and work of E. Annamalai (born 1938), the most prominent Tamil linguist of his generation. Spanning six dec…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Daneesh Majid, "The Hyderabadis: From 1947 to the Present Day" (Harper Collins, 2025)
Episode 1365
From the annexation of the princely state of Hyderabad in September 1948 to the formation of Andhra Pradesh in 1956 and the eventual creation of Tela…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Mattie Armstrong-Price, "Respectability on the Line: Gender, Race, and Labor along British and Colonial Indian Railways" (U California Press, 2026)
Episode 1363
Respectability on the Line: Gender, Race, and Labor along British and Colonial Indian Railways (U California Press, 2026) by Dr. Mattie Armstrong-Pri…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
David N. Gellner and Krishna P. Adhikari, "Nepal's Dalits in Transition" (Vajra Books, 2024)
Episode 1364
What do political democracy and social hierarchy do to each other?
For too long Nepal's Dalits have been marginalized, not just socially, economicall…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Drama of Democracy: Political Representation in Mumbai
Episode 1362
How do the inhabitants of the Indian city of Mumbai navigate political signs and representations? What is the significance of crowds and mass mobiliz…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Hillary Rodrigues, "The Supreme Refuge: Durgā's Transformation Into the Hindu Great Goddess" (SUNY Press, 2025)
Episode 1361
The Supreme Refuge: Durgā's Transformation Into the Hindu Great Goddess (SUNY Press, 2025) provides the first comprehensive examination of the Hindu…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Coming Out as Dalit with Yashica Dutt
Episode 1360
This episode features Yashica Dutt, journalist and author of Coming Out as Dalit. We began with a discussion of her choice to write a memoir, the sig…
7 months, 4 weeks ago
Syona Puliady, et al., "Visualizing Devotion: Jain Embroidered Shrine Hangings" (U Washington Press, 2025)
Episode 1359
Textiles, embroidered with religious imagery, express lay piety in public and private shrines
This beautifully illustrated volume highlights Jain devo…
8 months ago
Renny Thomas and Sasanka Perera, "Decolonial Keywords: South Asian Thoughts and Attitudes" (Columbia UP, 2025)
Episode 1357
Decolonial Keywords: South Asian Thoughts and Attitudes (Columbia UP, 2025) presents a set of keywords and concepts embedded in the languages of Sout…
8 months ago
Warwick Ball, "Ancient Civilizations of Afghanistan: From the Earliest Times to the Mongol Conquest" (Reaktion, 2025)
Episode 1358
Today, Afghanistan–if it ever reaches global headlines–is portrayed as an unstable land, known more for the wars great powers fight (and often lose) …
8 months ago