Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNile Green, "How Asia Found Herself: A Story of Intercultural Understanding" (Yale UP, 2023)
Episode 1335
The nineteenth century saw European empires build vast transport networks to maximize their profits from trade, and it saw Christian missionaries spr…
3 years, 3 months ago
Hindu Nationalism and Lower Caste Politics
Episode 188
Why and how has India’s Hindu nationalist party, the BJP, become so adept at appealing to and recruiting people from the lower castes? And what does …
3 years, 3 months ago
Daniel J. Soars and Nadya Pohran, "Hindu-Christian Dual Belonging" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 269
Daniel J. Soars and Nadya Pohran's book Hindu-Christian Dual Belonging (Routledge, 2022) focuses on dual belonging within Hindu-Christian contexts. W…
3 years, 3 months ago
Radhika Seshan and Ryuto Shimada, "Connecting the Indian Ocean World: Across Sea and Land" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 67
The Indian Ocean world has a rich history of socio-economic and cultural exchanges across time and space. Connecting the Indian Ocean World Across Se…
3 years, 3 months ago
Yael Rice, "The Brush of Insight: Artists and Agency at the Mughal Court" (U Washington Press, 2023)
Episode 307
Over the course of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Mughal court painters evolved from illustrators of manuscripts and albums to active…
3 years, 4 months ago
Afghanistan-Pakistan Relations: A Clash of Identities?
Episode 186
With Afghanistan once again under Taliban rule and Pakistan reeling under a severe economic and political crisis, the relationship between the neighb…
3 years, 4 months ago
Nayanjot Lahiri, "Searching for Ashoka: Questing for a Buddhist King from India to Thailand" (SUNY Press, 2023)
Episode 268
Blending travelogue, history, and archaeology, Searching for Ashoka: Questing for a Buddhist King from India to Thailand (SUNY Press, 2023) unravels …
3 years, 4 months ago
J. Barton Scott, "Slandering the Sacred: Blasphemy Law and Religious Affect in Colonial India" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Episode 266
Why is religion today so often associated with giving and taking offense? To answer this question, Slandering the Sacred: Blasphemy Law and Religious…
3 years, 4 months ago
Sangraha: Digital Cataloguing of Sanskrit Manuscripts
Episode 276
Sanjaya Singhal discusses Sangraha, an ambitious digital enterprise cataloguing India's millions of decaying Sanskrit manuscripts. Sangraha is a deta…
3 years, 4 months ago
Arvind-Pal Singh Mandair, "Sikh Philosophy: Exploring Gurmat Concepts in a Decolonizing World" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Episode 316
In his new contribution to the Bloomsbury Introductions to World Philosophies, Sikh Philosophy: Exploring Gurmat Concepts in a Decolonizing World (Bl…
3 years, 4 months ago