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Jeffery D. Long, "Jainism: An Introduction" (I. B. Tauris, 2009)
52 mins; August 11, 2021
Anna Ruddock, "Special Treatment: Student Doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences" (Stanford UP, 2021)
73 hours 38 mins; August 10, 2021
Gowri Vijayakumar, "At Risk: Indian Sexual Politics and the Global AIDS Response" (Stanford UP, 2021)
62 hours 52 mins; August 10, 2021
Vijaya Nagarajan, "Feeding a Thousand Souls: Women, Ritual, and Ecology in India--an Exploration of the Kolam" (Oxford UP, 2018)
48 mins; August 05, 2021
Radhika Vivas Mongia, "Indian Migration and Empire: A Colonial Genealogy of the Modern State" (Duke UP, 2018)
63 hours 44 mins; August 05, 2021
Sailen Routray, "Everyday State and Politics in India: Government in the Backyard in Kalahandi" (Routledge, 2017)
94 hours 44 mins; August 02, 2021
Chinmay Tumbe, "Age Of Pandemics (1817-1920): How They Shaped India and the World" (Harper Collins, 2020)
49 mins; August 02, 2021
Supriya Gandhi, "The Emperor Who Never Was: Dara Shukoh in Mughal India" (Harvard UP, 2020)
64 hours 53 mins; July 30, 2021
Vaibhav Saria, "Hijras, Lovers, Brothers: Surviving Sex and Poverty in Rural India" (Fordham UP, 2021)
58 mins; July 29, 2021
Riaz Dean, "Mapping the Great Game: Explorers, Spies & Maps in 19th Century-Central Asia, India and Tibet" (Casemate, 2019)
44 mins; July 29, 2021
McComas Taylor, "The Viṣṇu Purāṇa: Ancient Annals of the God with Lotus Eyes" (Australian National UP, 2021)
60 hours 0 mins; July 29, 2021
David Veevers, "The Origins of the British Empire in Asia, 1600–1750" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
92 hours 15 mins; July 28, 2021
Jyoti Gulati Balachandran, "Narrative Pasts: The Making of a Muslim Community in Gujarat, C. 1400-1650" (Oxford UP, 2020)
66 hours 38 mins; July 23, 2021
Rahul Mukherjee, "Radiant Infrastructures: Media, Environment, and Cultures of Uncertainty" (Duke UP, 2020)
59 mins; July 23, 2021
Natasha Behl, "Gendered Citizenship: Understanding Gendered Violence in Democratic India" (Oxford UP, 2019)
56 mins; July 23, 2021
A Conversation with Greg Bailey: Sanskrit Scholar and Novelist
55 mins; July 22, 2021
Shankar Nair, "Translating Wisdom: Hindu-Muslim Intellectual Interactions in Early Modern South Asia" (U California Press, 2020)
66 hours 6 mins; July 15, 2021
Suchitra Vijayan, "Midnight's Borders: A People's History of Modern India" (Melville House, 2021)
41 mins; July 15, 2021
Anya P. Foxen and Christa Kuberry, "Is this Yoga?: Concepts, Histories, and the Complexities of Modern Practice" (Routledge, 2021)
44 mins; July 14, 2021
Aase J. Kvanneid, "Perceptions of Climate Change from North India: An Ethnographic Account" (Routledge, 2021)
30 mins; July 12, 2021
Navaneetha Mokkil, "Unruly Figures: Queerness, Sex Work, and the Politics of Sexuality in Kerala" (U Washington Press, 2019)
48 mins; July 08, 2021
Marie Favereau, "The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World" (Harvard UP, 2021)
50 mins; July 08, 2021
Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen, "Accidental Feminism: Gender Parity and Selective Mobility Among India’s Professional Elite" (Princeton UP, 2021)
68 hours 21 mins; July 06, 2021
Rahul Rao, "Out of Time: The Queer Politics of Postcoloniality" (Oxford UP, 2020)
56 mins; July 06, 2021
Megan Eaton Robb, "Print and the Urdu Public: Muslims, Newspapers, and Urban Life in Colonial India" (Oxford UP, 2020)
48 mins; July 06, 2021
Papermaking Traditions, East and West: A Discussion with Timo Särkkä
30 mins; July 05, 2021
Sandeep Mertia, "Lives of Data: Essays on Computational Cultures from India" (Institute of Networked Cultures, 2020)
83 hours 1 min; July 05, 2021
Zoë Slatoff-Ponté, "Yogavataranam: The Translation of Yoga" (North Point Press, 2015)
40 mins; July 01, 2021
Andrew Davies, "Geographies of Anticolonialism: Political Networks Across and Beyond South India, c. 1900-1930" (John Wiley & Sons, 2020)
62 hours 39 mins; June 29, 2021
Malini Sur, "Jungle Passports: Fences, Mobility and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
50 mins; June 29, 2021
Marie Favereau, "The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World" (Harvard UP, 2021)
66 hours 21 mins; June 29, 2021
Peter Christiaan Bisschop and Yuko Yokochi, "The Skandapurána" (Brill, 2021)
47 mins; June 24, 2021
Namit Arora, "Indians: A Brief History of a Civilization" (Viking, 2021)
41 mins; June 24, 2021
Lavanya Vemsani, "Feminine Journeys of the Mahabharata: Hindu Women in History, Text, and Practice" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
47 mins; June 21, 2021
Chitgopekar Nilima, "The Reluctant Family Man: Shiva in Everyday Life" (Penguin, 2019)
37 mins; June 10, 2021
Samira Shackle, "Karachi Vice: Life and Death in a Contested City" (Melville House, 2021)
44 mins; June 10, 2021
Jon Keune, "Shared Devotion, Shared Food: Equality and the Bhakti-Caste Question in Western India" (Oxford UP, 2021)
51 mins; June 03, 2021
Guilt and the Gay Identity: Emotions in South Asia through a Queer Lens
22 mins; June 02, 2021
Kama Maclean, "A Revolutionary History of Interwar India: Violence, Image, Voice and Text" (Oxford UP, 2015)
91 hours 15 mins; May 28, 2021
Arti Dhand on The Mahābhārata
53 mins; May 26, 2021
Karen G. Ruffle, "Everyday Shi'ism in South Asia" (John Wiley & Sons, 2021)
52 mins; May 26, 2021
Anastasia Piliavsky, "Nobody's People: Hierarchy as Hope in a Society of Thieves" (Stanford UP, 2020)
62 hours 20 mins; May 24, 2021
Michael D. Nichols, "Religion and Myth in the Marvel Cinematic Universe" (McFarland, 2021)
45 mins; May 21, 2021
Arindam Chakrabarti. "Realisms Interlinked: Objects, Subjects, and Other Subjects" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
72 hours 45 mins; May 20, 2021
Mehr Afshan Farooqi, "Ghalib: a Wilderness at My Doorstep: A Critical Biography" (Allen Lane, 2021)
42 mins; May 20, 2021
Joseph McQuade, "A Genealogy of Terrorism: Colonial Law and the Origins of an Idea" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
77 hours 6 mins; May 19, 2021
J. Fewkes and M. Adamson Sijapati, "Muslim Communities and Cultures of the Himalayas: Conceptualizing the Global Ummah" (Routledge, 2020)
42 mins; May 19, 2021
Ayesha S. Chaudhry, "The Colour of God" (OneWorld, 2021)
53 mins; May 14, 2021
Poulami Roychowdhury, "Capable Women, Incapable States: Negotiating Violence and Rights in India" (Oxford UP, 2020)
58 mins; May 11, 2021
Making Sense of the West Bengal Elections
45 mins; May 10, 2021
Shibli Numani, "Turkey, Egypt, and Syria: A Travelogue" (Syracuse UP, 2019)
54 mins; May 07, 2021
Pallavi Guha, "Hear #metoo in India: News, Social Media, and Anti-Rape and Sexual Harassment Activism" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
55 mins; May 07, 2021
I. M. Fuerst and B. M. Wheeler, "Words of Experience: Translating Islam with Carl W. Ernst" (Equinox, 2020)
60 hours 50 mins; May 07, 2021
Amit Chaudhuri, "Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music" (NYRB, 2021)
44 mins; May 06, 2021
Shivshankar Menon, "India and Asian Geopolitics" (Brookings, 2021)
64 hours 32 mins; May 03, 2021
Brenda Beck, "Land of the Golden River: The Medieval Tamil Folk Epic of Poṉṉivaḷa Nāḍu" (Friesen Press, 2021)
48 mins; April 30, 2021
Mytheli Sreenivas, "Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India" (U Washington Press, 2021)
72 hours 57 mins; April 28, 2021
Gil Ben-Herut and Jon Keune, "Regional Communities of Devotion in South Asia: Insiders, Outsiders, and Interlopers" (Routledge, 2019)
55 mins; April 28, 2021
Ali Raza, "Revolutionary Pasts: Communist Internationalism in Colonial India" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
75 hours 16 mins; April 27, 2021
Prathama Banerjee, "Elementary Aspects of the Political: Histories from the Global South" (Duke UP, 2020)
43 mins; April 26, 2021
Birinder Pal Singh, "Sikhs in the Deccan and North-East India" (Taylor & Francis, 2018)
47 mins; April 23, 2021
The Ethnography of Immigration: In Conversation with Dr. Tahseen Shams
68 hours 57 mins; April 23, 2021
Daniel Heifetz, "The Science of Satyug: Class, Charisma, and Vedic Revivalism in the All World Gayatri Pariwar" (SUNY Press, 2021)
47 mins; April 22, 2021
Brenton Sullivan, "Building a Religious Empire: Tibetan Buddhism, Bureaucracy, and the Rise of the Gelukpa" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)
72 hours 19 mins; April 22, 2021
N. S. Hawley and S. S. Pillai, "Many Mahābhāratas" (SUNY Press, 2021)
73 hours 40 mins; April 20, 2021
Ayesha A. Irani, "The Muhammad Avatāra: Salvation History, Translation, and the Making of Bengali Islam" (Oxford UP, 2021)
41 mins; April 14, 2021
Ian Whicher, "The Integrity of the Yoga Darsana: A Reconsideration of Classical Yoga" (SUNY Press, 1998)
48 mins; April 13, 2021
Lisa Björkman, "Waiting Town: Life in Transit and Mumbai's Other World-Class Histories" (Association for Asian Studies, 2020)
56 mins; April 13, 2021
New Ethnographies of the Global South: In Conversation with Victoria Reyes and Marco Garrido
74 hours 21 mins; April 08, 2021
Anand A. Yang, "Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia" (U California Press, 2021)
81 hours 26 mins; April 08, 2021
Juned Shaikh, "Outcaste Bombay: City Making and the Politics of the Poor" (U Washington Press, 2021)
77 hours 7 mins; April 05, 2021
Smriti Srinivas et al., "Reimagining Indian Ocean Worlds" (Routledge, 2020)
74 hours 53 mins; April 02, 2021
Kama Maclean, "British India, White Australia: Overseas Indians, Intercolonial Relations and the Empire, 1901-1947" (NewSouth, 2020)
65 hours 44 mins; April 02, 2021
Zach Sell, "Trouble of the World: Slavery and Empire in the Age of Capital" (UNC Press, 2021)
73 hours 24 mins; March 29, 2021
Lokesh Ohri, "Till Kingdom Come: Medieval Hinduism in the Modern Himalaya" (SUNY Press, 2021)
38 mins; March 23, 2021
Tansen Sen and Brian Tsui, "Beyond Pan-Asianism: Connecting China and India, 1840s-1960s" (Oxford UP, 2020)
70 hours 40 mins; March 22, 2021
Douglas Osto, "An Indian Tantric Tradition and Its Modern Global Revival: Contemporary Nondual Śaivism" (Routledge, 2020)
51 mins; March 19, 2021
Cas Mudde, "The Far Right Today" (Polity, 2019)
56 mins; March 15, 2021
Megan Eaton Robb, "Print and the Urdu Public: Muslims, Newspapers, and Urban Life in Colonial India" (Oxford UP, 2020)
72 hours 44 mins; March 12, 2021
Nira Wickramasinghe, "Slave in a Palanquin: Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka" (Columbia UP, 2020)
66 hours 24 mins; March 02, 2021
Christopher Key Chapple, "Yoga in Jainism" (Routledge, 2015)
47 mins; March 02, 2021
A. Gandhi et al., "Rethinking Markets in Modern India: Embedded Exchange and Contested Jurisdiction" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
62 hours 27 mins; February 26, 2021
Bibek Debroy, "The Mahabharata" (Penguin, 2015)
57 mins; February 25, 2021
Debashree Mukherjee, "Bombay Hustle: Making Movies in a Colonial City" (Columbia UP, 2020)
43 mins; February 25, 2021
Christopher T. Fleming, "Ownership and Inheritance in Sanskrit Jurisprudence" (Oxford UP, 2021)
26 mins; February 17, 2021
Nicholas Jepson, "In China's Wake: How the Commodity Boom Transformed Development Strategies in the Global South" (Columbia UP, 2019)
64 hours 29 mins; February 16, 2021
Harshana Rambukwella, "The Politics and Poetics of Authenticity: A Cultural Genealogy of Sinhala Nationalism" (UCL Press, 2018)
75 hours 17 mins; February 15, 2021
Oliver Craske, "Indian Sun: The Life and Music of Ravi Shankar" (Hachette, 2020)
38 mins; February 11, 2021
Michael R. Auslin, "Asia's New Geopolitics: Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific" (Hoover Institution Press, 2020)
77 hours 16 mins; February 07, 2021
C. M. Bauman and M. Voss Roberts, "The Routledge Handbook of Hindu-Christian Relations" (Routledge, 2020)
59 mins; February 03, 2021
Richard M. Jaffe, "Seeking Sakyamuni: South Asia in the Formation of Modern Japanese Buddhism" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
65 hours 50 mins; January 29, 2021
Saiba Varma, "The Occupied Clinic: Militarism and Care in Kashmir" (Duke UP, 2020)
64 hours 41 mins; January 27, 2021
Tulasi Srinivas, "The Cow in the Elevator: An Anthropology of Wonder" (Duke UP, 2018)
46 mins; January 26, 2021
Chad M. Bauman, "Anti-Christian Violence in India" (Cornell UP, 2020)
48 mins; January 20, 2021
Bruce B. Lawrence, "The Bruce B. Lawrence Reader: Islam Beyond Borders" (Duke UP, 2021)
69 hours 8 mins; January 15, 2021
David Chaffetz, "Three Asian Divas: Women, Art and Culture In Shiraz, Delhi and Yangzhou" (Abbreviated Press, 2019)
41 mins; January 14, 2021
Stuart Ray Sarbacker, "Tracing the Path of Yoga: The History and Philosophy of Indian Mind-Body Discipline" (SUNY Press, 2021)
55 mins; January 12, 2021
Gopal K. Gupta, "Maya in the Bhagavata Purana: Human Suffering and Divine Play" (Oxford UP, 2020)
52 mins; January 08, 2021
Manan Ahmed Asif, "The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India" (Harvard UP, 2020)
71 hours 4 mins; January 06, 2021
Narrating Africa in South Asia
101 hours 28 mins; December 31, 2020
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