Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSandip Roy, "Chapal Rani, the Last Queen of Bengal" (Seagull Books, 2026)
Episode 1436
Chapal Rani was one of India’s most famous performers of jatra, Bengal’s popular theater. Traditionally, all the roles, including female roles, were …
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Utathya Chattopadhyaya, "Ganja Matters: Empire and the Pursuits of Cannabis in British India" (U California Press, 2026)
Episode 1435
Ganja is the popular name in Hindustani, Bengali, and other South Asian languages for intoxicating substances produced from the plant species Cann…
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Mithi Mukherjee, "Asianism and the Fall of Empire: India's Road to Freedom" (U California Press, 2026)
Episode 1434
Offering a new global perspective on modern Indian history, Asianism and the Fall of Empire: India's Road to Freedom (University of California Press…
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James Lochtefeld, "God’s Own Land: Sacred Landscape, Pilgrim Economy and Religious Change in the Ganga Himalaya" (Lever Press, 2026)
Episode 1433
God’s Own Land: Sacred Landscape, Pilgrim Economy and Religious Change in the Ganga Himalaya (Lever Press, 2026) follows the tectonic shift from tra…
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The MANTRAMS Project and Digital Mantra Research: A Discussion with Borayin Larios
Episode 1432
Every day, tens of millions of people use mantras all around the globe. Originating in South Asia and then spreading via practitioners, texts, ritual…
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Dalit Studies with Ramnarayan Rawat, K. Satyanarayana and Sanal Mohan
Episode 1431
This episode featured a conversation with Ramnarayan Rawat, K. Satyanarayana, and Sanal Mohan, three scholars in the burgeoning field of Dalit Studie…
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Daniel Majchrowicz, "A Journey to Mecca and London: The Travels of an Indian Muslim Woman, 1909–1910" (Indiana UP, 2025)
Episode 1430
Descended from Mughal nobility, Akhtar al-Nisa Begum Nawab Sarbuland Jung grew up in Hyderabad in southern India, where she lived a quiet, private,…
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Edward T. G. Anderson, "Hindu Nationalism in the Indian Diaspora: Transnational Politics and British Multiculturalism" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 1429
Hindu nationalism is transforming India as an increasingly dominant ideology and political force. But it is also a global phenomenon, with section…
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Muslims and the Minority Question across the Indian Ocean: A Conversation With Roy Bar Sadeh
Episode 1428
In this conversation, we are entering an Indian Ocean world connected by steamships, telegraphs, pilgrimage routes, and print. From Bombay and the …
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Monalisa Adhikari, "A Post-Liberal Peace: How Emergent Powers Are Reshaping Global Conflict Management" (Cornell UP, 2026)
Episode 1427
In A Post-Liberal Peace: How Emergent Powers Are Reshaping Global Conflict Management (Cornell UP, 2026), Dr. Monalisa Adhikari shows how rising powe…
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