Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEric Chopra, "Ghosted" (Speaking Tiger, 2026)
Episode 1346
Delhi is haunted—by its ghosts, its ruins, and its unending capacity for rebirth. In the shadow of medieval mosques and Mughal tombs, the past refuse…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
The Caste Question with Suraj Yengde and Anupama Rao
Episode 1345
TCP’s inaugural episode features Suraj Yengde and Anupama Rao, two scholars whose academic work and activism have helped to set the parameters of the…
9 months ago
Swapna Kona Nayudu, "The Nehru Years: An International History of Indian Non-Alignment" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 1344
Scholars of international relations, political thought, and India's international and diplomatic history are increasingly interested in the relevance…
9 months ago
Alaina M. Morgan, "Atlantic Crescent: Building Geographies of Black and Muslim Liberation in the African Diaspora" (UNC Press, 2025)
Episode 1343
Alaina Morgan's Atlantic Crescent: Building Geographies of Black and Muslim Liberation in the African Diaspora (UNC Press, 2025) introduces the conce…
9 months ago
Bradley R. Simpson, "The First Right: Self-Determination and the Transformation of International Order, 1941-2000" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Episode 1342
The idea of self-determination is one of the most significant in modern international politics. For more than a century diplomats, lawyers, scholars,…
9 months, 1 week ago
Stephen Legg, "Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi's Urban Governmentalities" (U Georgia Press, 2025)
Episode 1341
Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi's Urban Governmentalities (U Georgia Press, 2025) is the first book-length account of anticolonialism in Delhi, as t…
9 months, 1 week ago
Namit Arora and Romila Thapar, "Speaking of History: Conversations about India’s Past and Present" (India Allen Lane, 2025)
Episode 1340
What does it mean to be a historian? How do you try to explain the past when sources are lacking? And how do we talk about history when it’s so polit…
9 months, 1 week ago
Ishita Dey, "Sweet Excess: Crafting Mishti in Bengal" (Routledge, 2025)
Episode 1339
Sweet Excess: Crafting Mishti in Bengal (Routledge, 2025) by Ishita Dey is an ethnographic work on excess. Based on a decade-long fieldwork of a sing…
9 months, 1 week ago
Kellen Hoxworth, "Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance" (Northwestern UP, 2024)
Episode 1338
In Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance (Northwestern UP, 2024) Dr. Kellen Hoxworth presents a sweeping history of racialized performanc…
9 months, 1 week ago
Madhuri Deshmukh, "The Unraveling Heart: Women's Oral Poetics and Literary Vernacularization in Marathi" (Columbia UP, 2025)
Episode 1337
In this interview we discuss The Unraveling Heart: Women's Oral Poetics and Literary Vernacularization in Marathi (Columbia UP, 2025). Women’s son…
9 months, 2 weeks ago