Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchViolent Majorities 2.3: Long-Distance Ethnonationalism Roundup (LA, AS)
Episode 145
John joins Lori Allen and Ajantha Subramanian for the roundup episode of the second series of Violent Majorities, focusing on long-distance ethnonati…
1 year, 7 months ago
Anna Lise Seastrand, "Body, History, Myth: Early Modern Murals in South India" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 579
An astonishing variety of murals greet visitors to the temples and palaces of southern India. Beautiful in execution and extensive in scope, murals p…
1 year, 7 months ago
Material Religion, Assemblage, and the Agency of Things in South Asia
Episode 578
This special issue of Nidan: International Journal for Indian Studies is the product of a collective experiment with materials that are assembled, im…
1 year, 8 months ago
Violent Majorities 2.2: Subir Sinha on Hindutva as Long-Distance Ethnonationalism
Episode 144
Lori Allen and Ajantha Subramanian continue their second series on Violent Majorities. Their previous episode featured Peter Beinart on Zionism as lo…
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
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…
1 year, 8 months ago
Lavanya 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
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
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
Roger R. Jackson, "Saraha: Poet of Blissful Awareness" (Shambhala, 2024)
Episode 373
The life and works of the mysterious Indian yogin, Saraha, who has inspired Buddhist practitioners for over a thousand years. Saraha, “the Archer,” w…
1 year, 9 months ago