Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBrian Collins, "The Other Rama: Matricide and Genocide in the Mythology of Parasurama" (SUNY Press, 2020)
Episode 271
The Other Rāma (SUNY Press, 2020) presents a systematic analysis of the myth cycle of Paraśurāma ("Rāma with the Axe"), an avatára of Viṣṇu best know…
1 year, 7 months ago
Mick Brown, "The Nirvana Express: How the Search for Enlightenment Went West" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 270
Mick Brown’s The Nirvana Express: How the Search for Enlightenment Went West (Oxford UP, 2023) is a riveting account about the West's engagement with…
1 year, 7 months ago
Patrick Beldio, "The Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram: Co-Creator of the Integral Yoga" (Lexington Books, 2024)
Episode 580
The Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram: Co-Creator of the Integral Yoga (Lexington Books, 2024) analyzes the contributions of the Mother (née Mirra A…
1 year, 7 months ago
Daemons, Tantra, and Cultural Exchange with David Gordon White
Episode 583
In this episode, Dr. Pierce Salguero sits down with David Gordon White, a distinguished indologist and scholar of Tantra. Our conversation focuses on…
1 year, 7 months ago
Nadira Khatun, "Postcolonial Bollywood and Muslim Identity: Production, Representation, and Reception" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 266
In Postcolonial Bollywood and Muslim Identity: Production, Representation, and Reception (Oxford UP, 2024), Nadira Khatun explores the contentious Mu…
1 year, 7 months ago
Janam Mukherjee, "Hungry Bengal: War, Famine and the End of Empire" (Oxford UP, 2015)
Episode 268
The years leading up to the independence and accompanying partition of India mark a tumultuous period in the history of Bengal. Representing both a m…
1 year, 7 months ago
Violent Majorities 2.3: Long-Distance Ethnonationalism Roundup (LA, AS)
Episode 145
John joins Lori Allen and Ajantha Subramanian for the roundup episode of the second series of Violent Majorities, focusing on long-distance ethnonati…
1 year, 7 months ago
Manu Pillai, "Gods, Guns and Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity" (Allen Lane, 2025)
Episode 228
What is Hinduism?
For centuries, that question was particularly thorny, both for local Indians and for colonial outsiders. People inside and outside t…
1 year, 7 months ago
Anna Lise Seastrand, "Body, History, Myth: Early Modern Murals in South India" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 579
An astonishing variety of murals greet visitors to the temples and palaces of southern India. Beautiful in execution and extensive in scope, murals p…
1 year, 7 months ago
Paul G. Keil, "The Presence of Elephants: Shared Lives and Landscapes in Assam" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 407
How to dwell in a forest alongside giants, avoid disturbing a living god, assist an animal with their manners, and help an elephant cross the road. T…
1 year, 8 months ago