Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEsha Niyogi De, "Women's Transborder Cinema: Authorship, Stardom, and Filmic Labor in South Asia" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
Episode 228
Can we write women’s authorial roles into the history of industrial cinema in South Asia? How can we understand women’s creative authority and access…
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Raheel Dhattiwala, "Keeping the Peace: Spatial Differences in Hindu-Muslim Violence in Gujarat in 2002" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 267
In times of extreme violence, what explains peace in some places? This book investigates geographic variation in Hindu-Muslim violence in Gujarat in …
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Material Religion, Assemblage, and the Agency of Things in South Asia
Episode 578
This special issue of Nidān: International Journal for Indian Studies
is the product of a collective experiment with materials that are assembled, im…
1 year, 8 months ago
Preetha Mani, "The Idea of Indian Literature: Gender, Genre, and Comparative Method" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
Episode 266
Indian literature is not a corpus of texts or literary concepts from India, argues Preetha Mani, but a provocation that seeks to resolve the relation…
1 year, 8 months ago
Tahir Kamran, "Chequered Past, Uncertain Future: The History of Pakistan" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
Episode 226
Pakistan’s history since independence is…complicated. Partition wrecked the economy, leaving all the economic infrastructure in India. Democracy was …
1 year, 8 months ago
Claire C. Robison, "Bringing Krishna Back to India" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 577
The Hare Krishnas have long been associated with American hippie culture and New Age religious movements. But they have developed deeply rooted commu…
1 year, 8 months ago
Snigdhendu Bhattacharya, "Mission Bengal: A Saffron Experiment" (HarperCollins India, 2020)
Episode 265
From being a fringe political party in 2013 to sweeping nearly half of the state s forty-two Lok Sabha seats in 2019, the BJP has gained ground in We…
1 year, 8 months ago
Sunila S. Kale and Christian Lee Novetzke, "The Yoga of Power: Political Thought and Practice in India" (Columbia UP, 2025)
Episode 376
In Indian languages from Sanskrit to Marathi, yoga has an enormous range of meanings, though most often it refers to philosophy or methods to control…
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Alpa Shah, "The Incarcerations: Bk-16 and the Search for Democracy in India" (OR Books, 2024)
Episode 264
The Incarcerations: Bk-16 and the Search for Democracy in India (OR Books, 2024) pulls back the curtain on Indian democracy to tell the remarkable an…
1 year, 8 months ago
Divya Kannan, "Contested Childhoods: Caste and Education in Colonial Kerala" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 263
Contested Childhoods: Caste and Education in Colonial Kerala (Cambridge UP, 2024) traces a complex history of caste, race, education, and Christian m…
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