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Vinay Lal, "Gandhi, Truth, and Nonviolence: The Politics of Engagement in Post-Truth Times" (Oxford UP, 2025)
68 hours 31 mins; August 21, 2025
Uzma Quraishi, "Redefining the Immigrant South: Indian and Pakistani Immigration to Houston During the Cold War" (UNC Press, 2020)
70 hours 4 mins; August 20, 2025
Nicholas P. Roberts, "A Sea of Wealth: The Omani Empire and the Making of an Oceanic Marketplace" (U California Press, 2025)
51 mins; August 16, 2025
Audrey Truschke, "India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent" (Princeton UP, 2025)
44 mins; August 14, 2025
Vinay Lal, "India and Its Intellectual Traditions: of Love, Advaita, Power, and Other Things" (Oxford UP, 2024)
68 hours 47 mins; August 14, 2025
Kirin Narayan, "Cave of My Ancestors: Vishwakarma and the Artisans of Ellora" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
77 hours 25 mins; August 11, 2025
Navijivan Rastogi, "Kalikrama and Abhinavagupta: The Epistemological Ethics of a Tantric Tradition" (Nalanda, 2022)
27 mins; August 07, 2025
“Truth is a Pathless Land”: Krishnamurti and Revolutionary Spirituality with Connie Jones
101 hours 12 mins; August 05, 2025
Anne M. Blackburn, "Buddhist-Inflected Sovereignties Across the Indian Ocean: A Pali Arena, 1200-1550" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
57 mins; August 01, 2025
Suruchi Mazumdar, "Divided Media: Politics and Mediated Movements in India" (Routledge, 2025)
72 hours 48 mins; August 01, 2025
Joanna Jurewicz, "Invisible Fire: Memory, Tradition and the Self in Early Hindu Philosophy" (2021)
53 mins; July 31, 2025
Ankur Barua, "The Hindu Self and Its Muslim Neighbors: Contested Borderlines on Bengali Landscapes" (Lexington, 2022)
89 hours 44 mins; July 30, 2025
Jessica Ratcliff, "Monopolizing Knowledge: The East India Company and Britain's Second Scientific Revolution" (Cambridge UP, 2025))
89 hours 51 mins; July 28, 2025
Chiara Formichi, "Islam and Asia: A History" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
71 hours 31 mins; July 27, 2025
Christopher T. Fleming, "Equity and Trusts in Sanskrit Jurisprudence" (British Academy, 2025)
58 mins; July 23, 2025
Audrey Truschke, "India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent" (Princeton UP, 2025)
80 hours 56 mins; July 22, 2025
Tina Chen and Charlotte Eubanks, "Global Asias: Tactics & Theories" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
72 hours 37 mins; July 11, 2025
Daanika Kamal, "Domestic Violence in Pakistan: The Legal Construction of 'Bad' and 'Mad' Women" (Oxford UP, 2025)
53 mins; July 03, 2025
Sam Dalrymple, "Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia" (HarperCollins UK, 2025)
67 hours 0 mins; July 02, 2025
Amogh Dhar Sharma, "The Backstage of Democracy: India's Election Campaigns and the People Who Manage Them" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
90 hours 12 mins; June 29, 2025
Wendy Doniger, "An American Girl in India: Letters and Recollections, 1963-64" (SUNY Press, 2023)
106 hours 15 mins; June 23, 2025
Thiago P. Barbosa, "Racializing Caste: Anthropology Between Germany and India and the Legacy of Irawati Karve (1905-1970)" (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025)
45 mins; June 23, 2025
NIAS Podcast from the University of Tartu Asia Centre Kashmir Crisis: The India-Pakistan Blame Game?
43 mins; June 22, 2025
Eva De Clercq, Heleen De Jonckheere, and Simon Winant eds., "Literary Transcreation as a Jain Practice" (Ergon-Verlag, 2025)
72 hours 12 mins; June 21, 2025
Abdul Wohab, "Secularism and Islam in Bangladesh: 50 Years After Independence" (Routledge, 2025)
38 mins; May 21, 2025
Gazi Mizanur Rahman, "In the Malay World: A Spatial History of a Bengali Transnational Community" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
50 mins; May 20, 2025
Lines of Control: India’s Foreign Policy and China
39 mins; May 18, 2025
Pāṇḍitya: Mapping Sanskrit Texts Online
49 mins; May 15, 2025
Mayukh Sen, "Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star" (Norton, 2025)
57 mins; May 15, 2025
Catherine Hartmann, "Making the Invisible Real: Practice of Seeing in Tibetan Pilgrimage" (Oxford UP, 2025)
67 hours 20 mins; May 09, 2025
Andrew Ollett, "The Mirror of Ornaments (Alaṅkāradappaṇō): A Prakrit Work of Poetics" (UniorPress, 2025)
55 mins; May 08, 2025
Tupur Chatterjee, "Projecting Desire: Media Architectures and Moviegoing in Urban India" (NYU Press, 2025)
42 mins; May 04, 2025
Subho Basu, "Intimation of Revolution: Global Sixties and the Making of Bangladesh" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
44 mins; May 02, 2025
Karl-Stéphan Bouthillette, "Metaphysics As Therapy: List-Making and Renunciation in Gnostic Yogas" (Springer, 2025)
59 mins; May 01, 2025
Tithi Bhattacharya, "Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence: A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal" (Duke UP, 2024)
38 mins; April 29, 2025
Shailendra Kumar Singh, "Between Resistance and Conformity: Premchand’s Fiction in Colonial North India" (Routledge, 2024)
54 mins; April 27, 2025
Christopher Harding, "The Light of Asia: A History of Western Fascination with the East" (Allen Lane, 2024)
70 hours 23 mins; April 25, 2025
Philip J. Stern, "Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism" (Harvard UP, 2023)
56 mins; April 24, 2025
Paul M. McGarr, "Spying in South Asia: Britain, the United States, and India's Secret Cold War" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
65 hours 30 mins; April 20, 2025
Political Mythmaking in Nepal
31 mins; April 18, 2025
John Nemec, "Brahmins and Kings: Royal Counsel in the Sanskrit Narrative Literatures" (Oxford UP, 2025)
53 mins; April 17, 2025
Sarah Saddler, "Performing Corporate Bodies: Multinational Theatre in Global India" (Routledge, 2025)
70 hours 32 mins; April 16, 2025
Titas Chakraborty, "Empire of Labor: How the East India Company Colonized Hired Work" (U California Press, 2025)
90 hours 21 mins; April 15, 2025
Christopher Key Chapple, "The SāṃKhya System: Accounting for the Real" (SUNY Press, 2024)
56 mins; April 10, 2025
William Dalrymple, "The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
39 mins; April 08, 2025
Philip Harling, "Managing Mobility: The British Imperial State and Global Migration, 1840-1860" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
71 hours 10 mins; April 01, 2025
Rhys Machold, "Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements Across India and Palestine/Israel" (Stanford UP, 2024)
40 mins; March 31, 2025
Hemangini Gupta, "Experimental Times: Startup Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India" (U California Press, 2024)
41 mins; March 31, 2025
Vidyan Ravinthiran, "Asian/Other: Life, Poems, and the Problem of Memoir" (Icon Books, 2025)
54 mins; March 30, 2025
Azmeary Ferdoush, "Sovereign Atonement: Citizenship, Territory, and the State at the Bangladesh-India Border" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
82 hours 44 mins; March 29, 2025
Kiyokazu Okita, "The Building of Vṛndāvana: Architecture, Theology, and Practice in an Early Modern Pilgrimage Town" (Brill, 2023)
42 mins; March 27, 2025
Farah Ahamed, "Period Matters: Menstruation in South Asia" (Pan Macmillan, 2022)
49 mins; March 26, 2025
Joshua Ehrlich, "The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
51 mins; March 25, 2025
V. Chitra, "Drawing Coastlines: Climate Anxieties and the Visual Reinvention of Mumbai's Shore" (Cornell UP, 2024)
64 hours 16 mins; March 24, 2025
Madhavi Devasher, "Crossing Lines: Cross-Ethnic Coalitions in India and Prospects for Minority Representation" (Routledge, 2024)
42 mins; March 23, 2025
India in the Global Attention Economy
26 mins; March 22, 2025
Ashis Ray, "The Trial That Shook Britain: How a Court Martial Hastened Acceptance of Indian Independence" (Routledge India, 2024)
41 mins; March 21, 2025
Jon Chapple, "Sri Krishna Prem: A Wing and a Prayer" (Blazing Sapphire Press, 2024)
43 mins; March 20, 2025
Radha Kapuria and Vebhuti Duggal, "Punjab Sounds: In and Beyond the Region" (Routledge, 2024)
69 hours 44 mins; March 19, 2025
Brian Collins, "The Other Rama: Matricide and Genocide in the Mythology of Parasurama" (SUNY Press, 2020)
60 hours 50 mins; March 18, 2025
Mick Brown, "The Nirvana Express: How the Search for Enlightenment Went West" (Oxford UP, 2023)
103 hours 10 mins; March 18, 2025
Patrick Beldio, "The Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram: Co-Creator of the Integral Yoga" (Lexington Books, 2024)
49 mins; March 13, 2025
Daemons, Tantra, and Cultural Exchange with David Gordon White
62 hours 16 mins; March 11, 2025
Nadira Khatun, "Postcolonial Bollywood and Muslim Identity: Production, Representation, and Reception" (Oxford UP, 2024)
46 mins; March 07, 2025
Anna Lise Seastrand, "Body, History, Myth: Early Modern Murals in South India" (Princeton UP, 2024)
44 mins; March 06, 2025
Manu Pillai, "Gods, Guns and Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity" (Allen Lane, 2025)
62 hours 51 mins; March 06, 2025
Janam Mukherjee, "Hungry Bengal: War, Famine and the End of Empire" (Oxford UP, 2015)
60 hours 46 mins; March 06, 2025
Violent Majorities 2.3: Long-Distance Ethnonationalism Roundup (LA, AS)
46 mins; March 06, 2025
Paul G. Keil, "The Presence of Elephants: Shared Lives and Landscapes in Assam" (Routledge, 2024)
57 mins; March 02, 2025
Esha Niyogi De, "Women's Transborder Cinema: Authorship, Stardom, and Filmic Labor in South Asia" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
76 hours 44 mins; March 01, 2025
Raheel Dhattiwala, "Keeping the Peace: Spatial Differences in Hindu-Muslim Violence in Gujarat in 2002" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
56 mins; February 27, 2025
Material Religion, Assemblage, and the Agency of Things in South Asia
49 mins; February 27, 2025
Preetha Mani, "The Idea of Indian Literature: Gender, Genre, and Comparative Method" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
55 mins; February 21, 2025
Claire C. Robison, "Bringing Krishna Back to India" (Oxford UP, 2024)
49 mins; February 20, 2025
Tahir Kamran, "Chequered Past, Uncertain Future: The History of Pakistan" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
60 hours 53 mins; February 20, 2025
Snigdhendu Bhattacharya, "Mission Bengal: A Saffron Experiment" (HarperCollins India, 2020)
68 hours 28 mins; February 14, 2025
Sunila S. Kale and Christian Lee Novetzke, "The Yoga of Power: Political Thought and Practice in India" (Columbia UP, 2025)
54 mins; February 13, 2025
Alpa Shah, "The Incarcerations: Bk-16 and the Search for Democracy in India" (OR Books, 2024)
42 mins; February 13, 2025
Divya Kannan, "Contested Childhoods: Caste and Education in Colonial Kerala" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
36 mins; February 10, 2025
Lavanya Vemsani, "Handbook of Indian History" (Springer, 2024)
38 mins; February 06, 2025
Chandigarh
19 mins; February 04, 2025
Ayesha Jalal, "Muslim Enlightened Thought in South Asia" (Routledge, 2025)
46 mins; February 04, 2025
Ramachandra Guha, "Speaking with Nature: The Origins of Indian Environmentalism" (Yale UP, 2024)
65 hours 15 mins; February 01, 2025
Dan Archer, "Voices from Nepal: Uncovering Human Trafficking through Comics Journalism" (U Toronto Press, 2024)
47 mins; January 31, 2025
Anand Venkatkrishnan, "Love in the Time of Scholarship: The Bhagavata Purana in Indian Intellectual History" (Oxford UP, 2024)
38 mins; January 30, 2025
About Spider-Mother: The Fiction and Politics of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
66 hours 55 mins; January 30, 2025
Jorge Flores, "Empire of Contingency: How Portugal Entered the Indo-Persian World" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
56 mins; January 29, 2025
India’s Land Mafia: A Discussion with Chiara Arnavas
24 mins; January 24, 2025
Gidi Ifergan, "The Discerning Clear Gaze of Yoga" (Equinox, 2024)
40 mins; January 23, 2025
Avinash Paliwal, "India's Near East: A New History" (Oxford UP, 2024)
49 mins; January 23, 2025
Ashish Avikunthak, "Bureaucratic Archaeology: State, Science and Past in Postcolonial India" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
70 hours 36 mins; January 21, 2025
Amrita Narayanan, "Women's Sexuality and Modern India: In a Rapture of Distress" (Oxford UP, 2022)
55 mins; January 18, 2025
Roger R. Jackson, "Saraha: Poet of Blissful Awareness" (Shambhala, 2024)
44 mins; January 16, 2025
Javaria Farooqui, "Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan: Reading the Regency" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
53 mins; January 16, 2025
Richard H. Davis, "Religions of Early India: A Cultural History" (Princeton UP, 2024)
41 mins; January 09, 2025
Alastair Gornall, "Rewriting Buddhism: Pali Literature and Monastic Reform in Sri Lanka, 1157–1270" (UCL Press, 2020)
56 mins; January 06, 2025
Ilanit Loewy Shacham, "Empire Inside Out: Religion, Conquest, and Community in Kṛṣṇadevarāya's Āmuktamālyada" (Oxford UP, 2024)
75 hours 24 mins; January 05, 2025
Arvind Sharma, "From Fire To Light: Rereading the Manusmriti" (Harper Collins, 2024)
30 mins; January 02, 2025
Oishik Sircar, "Ways of Remembering: Law, Cinema and Collective Memory in the New India" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
96 hours 1 min; December 29, 2024
Mukulika Banerjee, "Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India" (Oxford UP, 2021)
67 hours 40 mins; December 28, 2024
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