Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRina Verma Williams, "Marginalized, Mobilized, Incorporated: Women and Religious Nationalism in Indian Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 223
How has the participation of women in Hindu nationalist politics in India changed over time? More broadly, what has their changing participation mean…
2 years, 7 months ago
India’s Waste Problem: A Discussion with Pamela Das
Episode 216
How is India tackling its persistent wage management problems? And, are new infrastructural solutions the way forward? In this episode, Kenneth Bo Ni…
2 years, 7 months ago
Pravina Rodrigues, "A Sakta Method for Comparative Theology: Upside Down, Inside Out" (Lexington, 2023)
Episode 322
Pravina Rodrigues' book A Sakta Method for Comparative Theology: Upside Down, Inside Out (Lexington, 2023) discusses the issue of the missing Hindu i…
2 years, 7 months ago
Michael Ortiz, "Anti-Colonialism and the Crises of Interwar Fascism" (Bloombury, 2023)
Episode 1431
What is fascism? Is it an anomaly in the history of modern Europe? Or its culmination?
In Anti-Colonialism and the Crises of Interwar Fascism (Bloomsb…
2 years, 7 months ago
Sanjay Subrahmanyam, "Across the Green Sea: Histories from the Western Indian Ocean, 1440-1640" (U Texas Press, 2024)
Episode 83
Across the Green Sea: Histories from the Western Indian Ocean, 1440-1640 (University of Texas Press, 2024) by Dr. Sanjay Subrahmanyam presents a hist…
2 years, 7 months ago
Caste, Music, and Microinequities with Supriya Subramani
Episode 1
In this episode, Pat speaks with Dr Supriya Subramani.
Dr Subramani's interest in morality and ethics has led her to explore morality, behaviour, and …
2 years, 7 months ago
Shakuntala Gawde, "Narrative Analysis of Bhagavata Purana: Selected Episodes from the Tenth Skandha" (Dev Publishers, 2023)
Episode 321
Shakuntala Gawde's book Narrative Analysis of Bhagavata Purana: Selected Episodes from the Tenth Skandha (Dev Publishers, 2023) presents an analytica…
2 years, 7 months ago
Radha Kapuria, "Music in Colonial Punjab" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 228
Music in Colonial Punjab (Oxford UP, 2023) offers the first social history of music in undivided Punjab (1800-1947), beginning at the Lahore court of…
2 years, 7 months ago
Stephen Phillips, "The Metaphysics of Meditation: Sri Aurobindo and Adi-Sakara on the Isa Upanisad" (Bloombury, 2024)
Episode 337
In The Metaphysics of Meditation: Sri Aurobindo and Ādi Śaṅkara on the Īśā Upaniṣad (Bloomsbury 2024), Stephen Phillips argues that the two titular V…
2 years, 7 months ago
Ashok Gopal, "A Part Apart: The Life and Thought of B.R. Ambedkar" (Navayana Press, 2023)
Episode 222
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956) is perhaps the most iconised historical figure in India. Born into a caste deemed ‘unfit for human association’, h…
2 years, 7 months ago