Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLavanya Vemsani, "Handbook of Indian History" (Springer, 2024)
Episode 375
Handbook of Indian History (Springer, 2024) comprehensively examines the extensive history of India by focusing on the unifying themes of history. Th…
1 year, 8 months ago
Ayesha Jalal, "Muslim Enlightened Thought in South Asia" (Routledge, 2025)
Episode 348
In Ayesha Jalal’s latest work Muslim Enlightened Thought in South Asia (Routledge, 2024) readers are introduced to the “roshan khayali” (enlightened …
1 year, 8 months ago
Chandigarh
Episode 152
Chandigarh is the shared capital city of the Indian states of Punjab and Haryana, built under the leadership of modernist and brutalist architect Le …
1 year, 8 months ago
Ramachandra Guha, "Speaking with Nature: The Origins of Indian Environmentalism" (Yale UP, 2024)
Episode 262
From one of the world’s leading historians comes the first substantial study of environmentalism set in any country outside the Euro-American world.
B…
1 year, 9 months ago
Dan Archer, "Voices from Nepal: Uncovering Human Trafficking through Comics Journalism" (U Toronto Press, 2024)
Episode 24
How can we better protect survivors? How can we learn from their stories without causing further harm?
With a pen in one hand and watercolours in the …
1 year, 9 months ago
Anand Venkatkrishnan, "Love in the Time of Scholarship: The Bhagavata Purana in Indian Intellectual History" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 372
Where is the "life" in scholarly life? Is it possible to find in academic writing, so often abstracted from the everyday? How might religion bridge t…
1 year, 9 months ago
About Spider-Mother: The Fiction and Politics of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
Episode 330
Today I talked to Ben Baer and Smaran Dayal about About Spider-Mother: The Fiction and Politics of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain.
Pioneering Indian Muslim …
1 year, 9 months ago
Jorge Flores, "Empire of Contingency: How Portugal Entered the Indo-Persian World" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
Episode 223
Portuguese India was tiny—a handful of trading posts and enclaves, centered on the colony of Goa. The Estado da Índia faced the Mughal Empire and the…
1 year, 9 months ago
India’s Land Mafia: A Discussion with Chiara Arnavas
Episode 237
Who and what are India’s land mafia? How do they operate, and why have they become so crucial to India’s land market? In this episode, we are joined …
1 year, 9 months ago
Gidi Ifergan, "The Discerning Clear Gaze of Yoga" (Equinox, 2024)
Episode 371
Gidi Ifergan's The Discerning Clear Gaze of Yoga (Equinox, 2024) explores the road map of yoga as reflected in the Yogasūtra of Patañjali (third cent…
1 year, 9 months ago