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The Gen Z Revolution in Bangladesh and Its Fallout

34 mins; April 02, 2026

Asif Iqbal, "Bangladesh in Anglophone and Vernacular Literature: Cultural Imaginings of a Postcolonial Nation" (Routledge, 2025)

35 mins; April 02, 2026

Asif Iqbal, "Bangladesh in Anglophone and Vernacular Literature: Cultural Imaginings of a Postcolonial Nation" (Routledge, 2025)

35 mins; April 02, 2026

Caste and Tech with Murali Shanmugavelan and Sareeta Amrute

66 hours 0 mins; March 30, 2026

Nikita Kaur Simpson, "Tension: Mental Distress and Embodied Inequality in the Western Himalayas" (Duke UP, 2026)

49 mins; March 29, 2026

Shalini Amerasinghe Ganendra, "Veins of Influence: Colonial Sri Lanka (Ceylon) in Early Photographs and Collections" (Neptune Publications, 2023)

33 mins; March 27, 2026

Satya Shikha Chakraborty, "Colonial Caregivers: Ayahs and the Gendered History of Race and Caste in British India" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

63 hours 33 mins; March 25, 2026

Kalpana Karunakaran, "A Woman of No Consequence: Memory, Letters and Resistance in Madras" (Context, 2026)

62 hours 56 mins; March 18, 2026

P. Thirumal and K. A. Nuaiman eds., "Inhabiting Technologies/Modernities: Media and Cultural Practices in South Asia" (Orient BlackSwan, 2025)

80 hours 10 mins; March 17, 2026

Upper Caste Liberalism with Ravikant Kisana

61 hours 20 mins; March 16, 2026

Margherita Trento et al., "For the Love of Tamil: Essays in Honor of E. Annamalai" (UnionPress, 2025)

42 mins; March 12, 2026

Daneesh Majid, "The Hyderabadis: From 1947 to the Present Day" (Harper Collins, 2025)

55 mins; March 09, 2026

Mattie Armstrong-Price, "Respectability on the Line: Gender, Race, and Labor along British and Colonial Indian Railways" (U California Press, 2026)

43 mins; March 07, 2026

David N. Gellner and Krishna P. Adhikari, "Nepal's Dalits in Transition" (Vajra Books, 2024)

77 hours 47 mins; March 07, 2026

Drama of Democracy: Political Representation in Mumbai

49 mins; March 06, 2026

Hillary Rodrigues, "The Supreme Refuge: Durgā's Transformation Into the Hindu Great Goddess" (SUNY Press, 2025)

77 hours 38 mins; March 05, 2026

Coming Out as Dalit with Yashica Dutt

57 mins; March 02, 2026

Syona Puliady, et al., "Visualizing Devotion: Jain Embroidered Shrine Hangings" (U Washington Press, 2025)

91 hours 54 mins; March 01, 2026

Renny Thomas and Sasanka Perera, "Decolonial Keywords: South Asian Thoughts and Attitudes" (Columbia UP, 2025)

35 mins; February 26, 2026

Warwick Ball, "Ancient Civilizations of Afghanistan: From the Earliest Times to the Mongol Conquest" (Reaktion, 2025)

46 mins; February 26, 2026

Aidan Seale-Feldman, "The Work of Disaster: Crisis and Care Along a Himalayan Fault Line" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

38 mins; February 23, 2026

Ananya Vajpeyi, "Place: Intimate Encounters with Cities" (Women Unlimited Ink, 2025)

75 hours 49 mins; February 23, 2026

Jason Cons, "Delta Futures: Time, Territory, and Capture on a Climate Frontier" (U California Press, 2025)

51 mins; February 23, 2026

Mark D. Steinberg, "Moral Storytelling in 1920s New York, Odessa, and Bombay: Sex, Crime, Violence, and Nightlife in the Modern City" (Bloomsbury, 2026)

63 hours 55 mins; February 21, 2026

Neilesh Bose, "Chips from a Calcutta Workshop: Comparative Religion in Nineteenth Century India" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

35 mins; February 19, 2026

Lisa Björkman, "Drama of Democracy: Political Representation in Mumbai" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)

82 hours 23 mins; February 17, 2026

Feminism and Critical Hindu Studies with Shreena Gandhi, Harshita Kamath, Sailaja Krishnamurt, and Shana Sippy

61 hours 13 mins; February 16, 2026

India’s Democratic Republic in Flux

44 mins; February 15, 2026

Sugata Bose, "Asia after Europe: Imagining a Continent in the Long Twentieth Century" (Harvard UP, 2024)

63 hours 24 mins; February 15, 2026

Susan Banki, "The Ecosystem of Exile Politics: Why Proximity and Precarity Matter for Bhutan's Homeland Activists" (Cornell UP, 2024)

57 mins; February 14, 2026

Eric Chopra, "Ghosted" (Speaking Tiger, 2026)

48 mins; February 05, 2026

The Caste Question with Suraj Yengde and Anupama Rao

59 mins; February 01, 2026

Swapna Kona Nayudu, "The Nehru Years: An International History of Indian Non-Alignment" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

28 mins; January 29, 2026

Alaina M. Morgan, "Atlantic Crescent: Building Geographies of Black and Muslim Liberation in the African Diaspora" (UNC Press, 2025)

71 hours 10 mins; January 27, 2026

Bradley R. Simpson, "The First Right: Self-Determination and the Transformation of International Order, 1941-2000" (Oxford UP, 2025)

87 hours 4 mins; January 25, 2026

Stephen Legg, "Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi's Urban Governmentalities" (U Georgia Press, 2025)

47 mins; January 23, 2026

Namit Arora and Romila Thapar, "Speaking of History: Conversations about India’s Past and Present" (India Allen Lane, 2025)

39 mins; January 22, 2026

Ishita Dey, "Sweet Excess: Crafting Mishti in Bengal" (Routledge, 2025)

81 hours 14 mins; January 21, 2026

Kellen Hoxworth, "Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance" (Northwestern UP, 2024)

44 mins; January 20, 2026

Madhuri Deshmukh, "The Unraveling Heart: Women's Oral Poetics and Literary Vernacularization in Marathi" (Columbia UP, 2025)

39 mins; January 15, 2026

Leah Lowthorp, "Deep Cosmopolitanism: Kutiyattam, Dynamic Tradition, and Globalizing Heritage in Kerala, India" (Indiana UP, 2025)

57 mins; January 14, 2026

Christopher Jain Miller and Cogen Bohanec, "Engaged Jainism: Critical and Constructive Studies of Jain Social Engagement" (SUNY Press, 2026)

65 hours 10 mins; January 08, 2026

Nile Green, "Serendipitous Translations: A Sourcebook on Sri Lanka in the Islamic Indian Ocean" (U Texas Press, 2026)

62 hours 24 mins; January 07, 2026

Megha Anwer and Anupama Arora, "Screening Precarity: Hindi Cinema and Neoliberal Crisis in Twenty-first Century India" (U Michigan Press, 2025)

53 mins; January 02, 2026

Deana Heath and Jinee Lokaneeta, "Policing and Violence in India: Colonial Origins and Contemporary Realities" (Speaking Tiger, 2025)

46 mins; January 02, 2026

Gil Ben-Herut, "Stories of Shiva's Saints: Selections from Harihara's Ragales" (Oxford UP, 2025)

66 hours 29 mins; January 01, 2026

Baijayanti Roy, "The Nazi Study of India and Indian Anti-Colonialism" (Oxford UP, 2024)

46 mins; January 01, 2026

J. Barton Scott, "Slandering the Sacred: Blasphemy Law and Religious Affect in Colonial India" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

30 mins; December 31, 2025

Alastair McClure, "Trials of Sovereignty: Mercy, Violence, and the Making of Criminal Law in British India, 1857-1922" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

57 mins; December 27, 2025

Suraj Milind Yengde, "Caste: A Global Story" (Hurst, 2025)

47 mins; December 25, 2025

Tracy Pintchman ed., "Engaging Hindu Narratives and Practices in the Contemporary World" (2025)

39 mins; December 25, 2025

Nathan McGovern, "Seeing Through Religion: An Introduction to the Study of Religion and Religions" (Routledge, 2025)

71 hours 55 mins; December 20, 2025

Purana Media: Past, Present, Future - A Discussion with Elizabeth A. Cecil and Peter C. Bisschop

34 mins; December 18, 2025

Rituparna Patgiri and Gurpinder Singh Lalli eds., "Food, Culture and Society in India: Social, Political, Economic and Cultural Perspectives" (Berghahn Books, 2025)

35 mins; December 13, 2025

Charlotte Macdonald, "Garrison World: Redcoat Soldiers in New Zealand and across the British Empire" (Bridget Williams Books, 2025)

72 hours 8 mins; December 11, 2025

Maria Bach, "Relocating Development Economics: The First Generation of Modern Indian Economists" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

33 mins; December 03, 2025

Is a River Alive?: A Conversation with Robert Macfarlane

34 mins; December 01, 2025

Nayanjot Lahiri, "Searching for Ashoka: Questing for a Buddhist King from India to Thailand" (SUNY Press, 2023)

47 mins; November 29, 2025

Fahad Ahmad Bishara, "Monsoon Voyagers: An Indian Ocean History" (U California Press, 2025)

45 mins; November 27, 2025

Ithamar Theodor, "The Philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

53 mins; November 27, 2025

Arpitha Kodiveri, "Governing Forests: State, Law and Citizenship in India’s Forests" (Melbourne UP, 2024)

108 hours 13 mins; November 22, 2025

Luke Gibson, "Reading Sanskrit: A Complete Step-By-Step Introduction with Texts from the Buddhist Tradition" (Columbia UP, 2025)

41 mins; November 20, 2025

David Boyk, "Provincial Metropolis: Intellectuals and the Hinterland in Colonial India" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

85 hours 6 mins; November 18, 2025

Steven W. Ramey, "Hinduism in Five Minutes" (Equinox, 2022)

38 mins; November 17, 2025

Nayma Qayum, "Village Ties: Women, NGOs, and Informal Institutions in Rural Bangladesh" (Rutgers UP, 2021)

62 hours 46 mins; November 16, 2025

Sonia Faleiro, "The Robe and the Sword: How Buddhist Extremism Is Shaping Modern Asia" (Columbia UP, 2025)

41 mins; November 14, 2025

Amy L. Allocco and Xenia Zeiler eds., "Sweetening and Intensification: Currents Shaping Hindu Practices" (SUNY Press, 2025)

33 mins; November 13, 2025

Anand P. Vaidya, "Future of the Forest: Struggles over Land and Law in India" (Cornell UP, 2025)

83 hours 11 mins; November 13, 2025

Karine Gagné, "Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas" (U Washington Press, 2019)

101 hours 53 mins; November 09, 2025

Fahad Ahmad Bishara, "Monsoon Voyagers: An Indian Ocean History" (U California Press, 2025)

109 hours 59 mins; November 06, 2025

Harini Nagendra, "Into the Leopard's Den: A Bangalore Detectives Club Mystery" (Pegasus Crime, 2025)

36 mins; November 06, 2025

William J. Glover, "Reformatting Agrarian Life: Urban History from the Countryside in Colonial India" (Stanford UP, 2025)

56 mins; November 05, 2025

Anand, "The Notbook of Kabir: Thinner than Water, Fiercer than Fire" (India Viking, 2025)

93 hours 49 mins; November 04, 2025

Kalathmika Natarajan, "Coolie Migrants, Indian Diplomacy: Caste, Class and Indenture Abroad, 1914-67" (Oxford UP, 2026)

76 hours 19 mins; November 02, 2025

C. Yamini Krishna, "Film City Urbanism in India: Hyderabad, from Princely City to Global City ,1890-2000" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

49 mins; November 01, 2025

Eram Alam, "The Care of Foreigners: How Immigrant Physicians Changed US Healthcare" (JHU Press, 2025)

51 mins; October 30, 2025

Deana Heath, "Colonial Terror: Torture and State Violence in Colonial India" (Oxford UP, 2021)

26 mins; October 26, 2025

Wendy Doniger, "The Dharma of Unfaithful Wives and Faithful Jackals: Some Moral Tales From The Mahabharata" (Speaking Tiger, 2024)

72 hours 56 mins; October 25, 2025

Future of the Forest: Struggles over Land and Law in India

31 mins; October 13, 2025

Ashis Roy, "Intimacy in Alienation: A Psychoanalytic Study of Hindu-muslim Relationships" (Yoda Press, 2024)

61 hours 57 mins; October 12, 2025

Mukul Sharma, "Dalit Ecologies: Caste and Environment Justice" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

43 mins; October 12, 2025

Karen Pechilis ed., "A Cultural History of Hinduism: Volumes 1-6" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

59 mins; October 09, 2025

Digital Expressions of the Self(ie): The Social Life of Selfies in India

25 mins; October 06, 2025

John Mathias, "Uncommon Cause: Living for Environmental Justice in Kerala" (U California Press, 2024)

54 mins; October 05, 2025

Clara A. B. Joseph, "India's Non-violent Freedom Struggle: The Thomas Christians (1599-1799)" (Routledge, 2023)

37 mins; October 02, 2025

Subah Dayal, "Between Household and State: The Mughal Frontier and the Politics of Circulation in Peninsular India" (U California Press, 2024)

40 mins; September 30, 2025

Kolby Hanson, "Ordinary Rebels: Rank-And-File Militants Between War and Peace" (Oxford UP, 2025)

42 mins; September 28, 2025

Gen Z Uprising: Youth, Protest and Political Change in Nepal

32 mins; September 26, 2025

Kenneth R. Valpey, "Yoga and Animal Ethics" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)

43 mins; September 25, 2025

Debaditya Bhattacharya, "The Indian University: A Critical History" (Orient BlackSwan, 2025)

58 mins; September 19, 2025

Sam Dalrymple, "Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia" (William Collins, 2025)

53 mins; September 05, 2025

Ruth Perini, "Varaha Upanishad: The Path to Supreme Knowledge" (2025)

30 mins; September 04, 2025

Matthew Bowser, "Containing Decolonization: British Imperialism and the Politics of Race in Late Colonial Burma" (Manchester UP, 2025)

62 hours 44 mins; September 04, 2025

David McNally, "Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History" (U California Press, 2025)

43 mins; September 03, 2025

Robert Ivermee, "Glorious Failure: The Forgotten History of French Imperialism in India" (Oxford UP, 2025)

55 mins; September 02, 2025

Laura Murphy, "Freedomville: The Story of a 21st-Century Slave Revolt" (Columbia Global Reports, 2021)

44 mins; August 30, 2025

Maan Barua, "Plantation Worlds" (Duke UP, 2024)

58 mins; August 29, 2025

A Ukrainian Translation of the Devi Mahatmya

63 hours 54 mins; August 28, 2025

Faisal Chaudhry, "South Asia, the British Empire, and the Rise of Classical Legal Thought: Toward a Historical Ontology of the Law" (Oxford UP, 2024)

76 hours 49 mins; August 28, 2025

Robert Cribb et al., "Detention Camps in Asia: The Conditions of Confinement in Modern Asian History" (Brill, 2022)

68 hours 4 mins; August 22, 2025

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