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Back to SearchJames McHugh, "An Unholy Brew: Alcohol in Indian Religion and History" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 172
The first book on alcohol in pre-modern India, James McHugh's An Unholy Brew: Alcohol in Indian Religion and History (Oxford UP, 2021) uses a wide ra…
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Mythopolitics in South Asia
Episode 106
India has been caught in a question for almost a decade now: is it a secular democracy or is it a Hindu nation? The struggles over this question goes…
4 years, 8 months ago
Diana Dimitrova, "Rethinking the Body in South Asian Traditions" (Routledge, 2020)
Episode 170
Diana Dimitrova's book Rethinking the Body in South Asian Traditions (Routledge, 2020) analyses cultural questions related to representations of the …
4 years, 8 months ago
Eviatar Shulman, "Visions of the Buddha: Creative Dimensions of Early Buddhist Scripture" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 87
Eviatar Shulman's Visions of the Buddha: Creative Dimensions of Early Buddhist Scripture (Oxford University Press, 2021) offers a ground-breaking app…
4 years, 8 months ago
Jay L. Garfield, "Buddhist Ethics: A Philosophical Exploration" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 275
In Buddhist Ethics: A Philosophical Exploration (Oxford University Press, 2022), Jay Garfield argues that Buddhist ethics is a distinctive kind of mo…
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Love-Jihad and the Politics of Hindu Nationalist Statecraft
Episode 104
What role does the Islamophobic conspiracy theory of “love jihad” play in the politics of Hindu nationalist statecraft—the legal codification of Hind…
4 years, 8 months ago
Jarrod Whitaker, "Strong Arms and Drinking Strength: Masculinity, Violence, and the Body in Ancient India" (Oxford UP, 2011)
Episode 164
Today I talked to Jarrod Whitaker about his book Strong Arms and Drinking Strength: Masculinity, Violence, and the Body in Ancient India (Oxford UP, …
4 years, 8 months ago
Walter Dorn and Andrew Bartles-Smith, "Hinduism and International Humanitarian Law"
Episode 176
Raj Balkaran interviews Walter Dorn (Professor of Defence Studies, Royal Military College) and Andrew Bartles-Smith (Head of Global Affairs, Internat…
4 years, 8 months ago
Gitte Bechsgaard and Gillian McCann, "Yoga and Alignment: From the Upanishads to B. K. S. Iyengar" (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021)
Episode 173
Gitte Bechsgaard and Gillian McCann's book Yoga and Alignment: From the Upanishads to B. K. S. Iyengar (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021) offers a…
4 years, 8 months ago
Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma, "The Kural: Tiruvalluvar's Tirukkural" (Beacon Press, 2022)
Episode 171
The Kural (Beacon Press, 2022), is a new translation of the Tamil classical masterpiece Tiruvalluvar’s Tirukkural, by Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma, who is…
4 years, 8 months ago