Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchTracy Pintchman ed., "Engaging Hindu Narratives and Practices in the Contemporary World" (2025)
Episode 626
"Engaging Hindu Narratives and Practices in the Contemporary World"
Special Issue of the International Journal of Hindu Studies: Volume 29, Issue 2 (A…
10 months, 1 week ago
Nathan McGovern, "Seeing Through Religion: An Introduction to the Study of Religion and Religions" (Routledge, 2025)
Episode 302
Seeing Through Religion is a cutting-edge textbook that gives students the tools to learn this valuable subject theoretically, McGovern argues that r…
10 months, 1 week ago
Purana Media: Past, Present, Future - A Discussion with Elizabeth A. Cecil and Peter C. Bisschop
Episode 1324
PURANA Media is an annual, peer-reviewed, open access journal focused on modes of cultural production encompassed by the term purāṇa (a Sanskrit word…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Rituparna Patgiri and Gurpinder Singh Lalli eds., "Food, Culture and Society in India: Social, Political, Economic and Cultural Perspectives" (Berghahn Books, 2025)
Episode 1323
Exploring the entangled relationships between food, culture and society in India, this edited collection Food, Culture and Society in India: Social,…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Charlotte Macdonald, "Garrison World: Redcoat Soldiers in New Zealand and across the British Empire" (Bridget Williams Books, 2025)
Episode 1322
The pivotal year of 1870 brought down the curtain on the redcoat garrison world at both the metropolitan and colonial ends of the empire . . . In few…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Maria Bach, "Relocating Development Economics: The First Generation of Modern Indian Economists" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 1321
Originating in the Nineteenth Century, the European idea of development was shaped around the premise that the West possessed progressive characteris…
10 months, 4 weeks ago
Is a River Alive?: A Conversation with Robert Macfarlane
Episode 1320
Hailed in the New York Times as "a naturalist who can unfurl a sentence with the breathless ease of a master angler," Robert Macfarlane brings his gl…
11 months ago
Nayanjot Lahiri, "Searching for Ashoka: Questing for a Buddhist King from India to Thailand" (SUNY Press, 2023)
Episode 268
Blending travelogue, history, and archaeology, Searching for Ashoka: Questing for a Buddhist King from India to Thailand (SUNY Press, 2023) unravels …
11 months ago
Ithamar Theodor, "The Philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 1318
The Bhagavad Gita is a world classic often considered to be not just the 'Hindu Bible' but sometimes the 'Indian Bible' as well. Over the last two ce…
11 months ago
Fahad Ahmad Bishara, "Monsoon Voyagers: An Indian Ocean History" (U California Press, 2025)
Episode 1317
In 1924, the Al-A‘waj, also known as the Crooked, set sail from Kuwait on a trading journey around the Persian Gulf, through the Strait of Hormuz, to…
11 months ago