Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSam Dalrymple, "Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia" (William Collins, 2025)
Episode 1286
Partition—the rapid, uncoordinated, and bloody split between India and Pakistan after the Second World War—remains the central event of South Asian h…
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Matthew Bowser, "Containing Decolonization: British Imperialism and the Politics of Race in Late Colonial Burma" (Manchester UP, 2025)
Episode 1285
In Containing Decolonization: British Imperialism and the Politics of Race in Late Colonial Burma (Manchester University Press, 2025), historian Matt…
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Ruth Perini, "Varaha Upanishad: The Path to Supreme Knowledge" (2025)
Episode 602
This conversation examines the newly published translation of the Varāha Upaniṣad, a lesser-known but deeply transformative scripture from the Kṛṣṇa‑…
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David McNally, "Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History" (U California Press, 2025)
Episode 1283
David McNally's Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History (U California Press, 2025)presents the first systematic Marxist account of the capitali…
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Robert Ivermee, "Glorious Failure: The Forgotten History of French Imperialism in India" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Episode 1282
This is a powerful new account of a chapter in history that is crucial to understand, yet often overlooked. For 150 years, from the reign of Louis XI…
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Laura Murphy, "Freedomville: The Story of a 21st-Century Slave Revolt" (Columbia Global Reports, 2021)
Episode 1281
A celebrated revolution brought freedom to a group of enslaved people in northern India. Or did it?
Millions of people around the world today are ens…
1 year, 2 months ago
Maan Barua, "Plantation Worlds" (Duke UP, 2024)
Episode 1280
In Plantation Worlds (Duke UP, 2024), Maan Barua interrogates debates on planetary transformations through the histories and ecologies of plantations…
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A Ukrainian Translation of the Devi Mahatmya
Episode 605
In this episode, Dr. Raj Balkaran speaks with art historian and curator Alisa Lozhkina about her groundbreaking Ukrainian translation of the Devī Māh…
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Faisal Chaudhry, "South Asia, the British Empire, and the Rise of Classical Legal Thought: Toward a Historical Ontology of the Law" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 1279
South Asia, the British Empire, and the Rise of Classical Legal Thought: Toward a Historical Ontology of the Law (Oxford UP, 2024) considers the lega…
1 year, 2 months ago
Robert Cribb et al., "Detention Camps in Asia: The Conditions of Confinement in Modern Asian History" (Brill, 2022)
Episode 1277
Why have Asian states - colonial and independent - imprisoned people on a massive scale in detention camps?
How have detainees experienced the long m…
1 year, 2 months ago