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Pakistan, Populism and the Left
68 hours 38 mins; December 27, 2024
China and the Indo-Pacific: Policies and Global Implications
31 mins; December 27, 2024
Antoinette Denapoli and June McDaniel, "Gurus, Priestesses, Saints, Mediums and Yoginis: Holy Women as Influencers in Hindu Culture" (MDPI, 2024)
56 mins; December 26, 2024
Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, "Required Reading: The Life of Everyday Texts in the British Empire" (Princeton UP, 2024)
66 hours 2 mins; December 23, 2024
Daniel Joseph Majchrowicz, "The World in Words: Travel Writing and the Global Imagination in Muslim South Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
54 mins; December 20, 2024
Sandhya Fuchs, "Fragile Hope: Seeking Justice for Hate Crimes in India" (Stanford UP, 2024)
107 hours 33 mins; December 14, 2024
Azad Essa, "Hostile Homelands: The New Alliance Between India and Israel" (Pluto Press, 2023)
78 hours 0 mins; December 13, 2024
Samuel Hodgkin, "Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern Internationalism" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
62 hours 38 mins; December 12, 2024
Mou Banerjee, "The Disinherited: The Politics of Christian Conversion in Colonial India" (Harvard UP, 2025)
80 hours 18 mins; December 11, 2024
Nissim Mannathukkaren, "Hindu Nationalism in South India: The Rise of Saffron in Kerala" (Routledge, 2024)
53 mins; December 09, 2024
Kāvyacandrikā: A Hitherto Unknown Work of Sanskrit Poetics
38 mins; December 05, 2024
Fatima Rajina, "British Bangladeshi Muslims in the East End: The Changing Landscape of Dress and Language" (Manchester UP, 2024)
61 hours 40 mins; November 30, 2024
James Mallinson, "The Dattatreyayogasastra" (Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient, 2024)
71 hours 8 mins; November 27, 2024
Sandipto Dasgupta, "Legalizing the Revolution: India and the Constitution of the Postcolony" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
99 hours 16 mins; November 26, 2024
Required Reading
21 mins; November 23, 2024
Shalini Kakar, "Devotional Fanscapes: Bollywood Star Deities, Devotee-Fans, and Cultural Politics in India and Beyond" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023)
46 mins; November 21, 2024
Sasikumar Harikrishnan, "Social Spaces and the Public Sphere:: A Spatial-history of Modernity in Kerala" (Routledge, 2023)
77 hours 29 mins; November 20, 2024
Ruth Vanita, "A Slight Angle" (India Viking, 2024)
33 mins; November 14, 2024
Tyler W. Williams, "If All the World Were Paper: A History of Writing in Hindi" (Columbia UP, 2024)
44 mins; November 14, 2024
Nandini Sundar, "The Burning Forest: India's War In Bastar" (Verso, 2016)
53 mins; November 12, 2024
Manan Ahmed Asif, "Disrupted City: Walking the Pathways of Memory and History in Lahore" (New Press, 2024)
80 hours 19 mins; November 10, 2024
Roberto Morales-Harley, "The Embassy, the Ambush, and the Ogre: Greco-Roman Influence in Sanskrit Theater” (Open Book, 2024)
38 mins; November 07, 2024
Stuart Anderson, "Pharmacopoeias, Drug Regulation, and Empires: Making Medicines Official in Britain's Imperial World, 1618-1968" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2024)
64 hours 37 mins; November 06, 2024
Subhashini Kaligotla, "Shiva's Waterfront Temples: Architects and Their Audiences in Medieval India" (Yale UP, 2022)
31 mins; October 31, 2024
Bihani Sarkar, "Classical Sanskrit Tragedy: The Concept of Suffering and Pathos in Medieval India" (I. B. Tauris, 2021)
84 hours 55 mins; October 30, 2024
Anuradha Sajjanhar, "The New Experts: Populist Elites and Technocratic Promises in Modi's India" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
39 mins; October 30, 2024
Rajbir Singh Judge, "Prophetic Maharaja: Loss, Sovereignty, and the Sikh Tradition in Colonial South Asia" (Columbia UP, 2024)
49 mins; October 30, 2024
Sabina Faiz Rashid, "Poverty, Gender and Health in the Slums of Bangladesh: Children of Crows" (Routledge, 2024)
55 mins; October 29, 2024
Townsend Middleton, "Quinine's Remains: Empire’s Medicine and the Life Thereafter" (U California Press, 2024)
67 hours 31 mins; October 28, 2024
How Did Arabic Get on That Sign?
41 mins; October 26, 2024
Omer Aijazi, "Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
39 mins; October 25, 2024
Daniela Bevilacqua, "From Tapas to Modern Yoga: Sādhus' Understanding of Embodied Practices" (Equinox, 2024)
32 mins; October 24, 2024
Andrea Benvenuti, "Nehru's Bandung: Non-Alignment and Regional Order in Indian Cold War Strategy" (Oxford UP, 2024)
77 hours 46 mins; October 24, 2024
India Rising: Navigating the Second Cold War in South Asia from Nepal to the Maldives
57 mins; October 23, 2024
Suganya Anandakichenin, "The Monsoon Cloud: Poet Kāḷamēkam and His Irreverent Poetry" (Primus, 2024)
35 mins; October 17, 2024
Corey Ross, "Liquid Empire: Water and Power in the Colonial World" (Princeton UP, 2024)
82 hours 34 mins; October 17, 2024
Kanupriya Dhingra, "Old Delhi's Parallel Book Bazaar" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
55 mins; October 11, 2024
Michael Tilton Williams, "Existence and Perception in Medieval Vedānta: Vyāsatīrtha's Defence of Realism in the Nyāyāmṛta" (de Gruyter, 2024)
32 mins; October 10, 2024
How have Bureaucratic Politics Undermined Pakistan’s Prospects for Democracy?
40 mins; October 10, 2024
Rohit Manchanda, "The Enclave: A Sharp and Hilarious Portrait of Womanhood in India" (Fourth Estate, 2024)
45 mins; October 10, 2024
Shweta Kishore and Kunal Ray, "Resistance in Indian Documentary Film: Aesthetics, Culture and Practice" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
51 mins; October 07, 2024
Faisal Devji, "Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea" (Harvard UP, 2013)
97 hours 25 mins; October 04, 2024
Deepa Das Acevedo, "The Battle for Sabarimala: Religion, Law, and Gender in Contemporary India" (Oxford UP, 2024)
33 mins; October 03, 2024
Shalva Weil, "The Baghdadi Jews in India: Maintaining Communities, Negotiating Identities and Creating Super-Diversity" (Routledge, 2021)
43 mins; October 02, 2024
Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav, "Being Hindu, Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai’s Ideas of Nationhood" (India Viking, 2024)
62 hours 2 mins; September 29, 2024
Michael C. Baltutis, "What is Hinduism?: A Student's Introduction" (Routledge, 2024)
40 mins; September 26, 2024
Tone Bleie, "A New Testament: Scandinavian Missionaries and Santal Chiefs from Company and British Crown Rule to Independence" (Solum Bokvennen, 2023)
43 mins; September 20, 2024
Hari Dutt Sharma, "Gulmini: An Anthology of Sanskrit Lyrics and Gazals" (Rākā Prakāśana, 2023)
33 mins; September 19, 2024
Salma Siddique, "Evacuee Cinema: Bombay and Lahore in Partition Transit, 1940–1960" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
66 hours 15 mins; September 14, 2024
Cogen Bohanec, "Bhakti Ethics, Emotions, and Love in Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava Metaethics" (Lexington, 2024)
53 mins; September 12, 2024
The Body in Classical Hathayoga, with Ruth Westoby
57 mins; September 08, 2024
Aditi Malik, "Playing with Fire: Parties and Political Violence in Kenya and India" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
46 mins; September 06, 2024
Christopher P. Miller et al., "Beacons of Dharma: Spiritual Exemplars for the Modern Age" (Lexington, 2019)
45 mins; September 05, 2024
Sanjay Lal, "Gandhi's Thought and Liberal Democracy" (Lexington Books, 2019)
53 mins; September 02, 2024
Constance L. Kirker and Mary Newman, "Mango: A Global History" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
65 hours 36 mins; August 31, 2024
Laura Robson and Arie Dubnov, "Partitions: A Transnational History of Twentieth-Century Territorial Separatism" (Stanford UP, 2019)
52 mins; August 29, 2024
Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria, "Mumbai on Two Wheels: Cycling, Urban Space, and Sustainable Mobility" (U Washington Press, 2024)
53 mins; August 27, 2024
Karl Hoffmann and Johanna Narten, "Vedic Sentences: Edited from the Literary Estate" (Heidelberg Asian Studies, 2024)
61 hours 7 mins; August 26, 2024
Nazmul Sultan, "Waiting for the People: The Idea of Democracy in Indian Anticolonial Thought" (Harvard UP, 2024)
108 hours 12 mins; August 24, 2024
Ren Pepitone, "Brotherhood of Barristers: A Cultural History of the British Legal Profession, 1840–1940" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
58 mins; August 22, 2024
Jeffery D. Long et al., "Hinduism and Tribal Religions" (Springer, 2021)
29 mins; August 22, 2024
Rama Sundari Mantena, "Provincial Democracy: Political Imaginaries at the End of Empire in Twentieth-century South India" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
75 hours 14 mins; August 20, 2024
Dalpat Rajpurohit, "Sundar's Dreams: Ārambhik Ādhunikatā, Dādūpanth and Sundardās's Poetry" (Rajkamal, 2022)
69 hours 10 mins; August 19, 2024
Anthony P. Stone, "Hindu Astrology: Myths, Symbols, and Realities" (Pippa Rann Books, 2023)
37 mins; August 15, 2024
Arif Hasan, "The Search for Shelter: Writings on Land and Housing" (Oxford UP, 2022)
52 mins; August 10, 2024
Murad Khan Mumtaz, "Faces of God: Images of Devotion in Indo-Muslim Painting, 1500-1800" (Brill, 2023)
32 mins; August 08, 2024
Swati Chattopadhyay, "Small Spaces: Recasting the Architecture of Empire" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
56 mins; August 03, 2024
Steven E. Lindquist, "The Literary Life of Yājñavalkya" (SUNY Press, 2024)
64 hours 20 mins; July 30, 2024
Dan Morrison, "The Poisoner of Bengal: The 1930s Murder That Shocked the World" (Juggernaut, 2024)
46 mins; July 25, 2024
Stephen Harris, "Buddhist Ethics and the Bodhisattva Path: Santideva on Virtue and Well-Being" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
78 hours 20 mins; July 20, 2024
Filmmaker, Artist, Writer: A Conversation with Paromita Vohra
50 mins; July 19, 2024
Reid B. Locklin, "Hindu Mission, Christian Mission: Soundings in Comparative Theology" (SUNY Press, 2024)
28 mins; July 18, 2024
Jonathan Connolly, "Worthy of Freedom: Indenture and Free Labor in the Era of Emancipation" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
67 hours 34 mins; July 13, 2024
Rory Lindsay, "Saving the Dead: Tibetan Funerary Rituals in the Tradition of the Sarvardurgatipariśodhana Tantra" (WSTB, 2024)
43 mins; July 11, 2024
Darshana Sreedhar Mini, "Rated A: Soft-Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire in India" (U California Press, 2024)
82 hours 10 mins; July 07, 2024
Ellen Gough, "Making a Mantra: Tantric Ritual and Renunciation on the Jain Path to Liberation" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
61 hours 51 mins; July 06, 2024
Neena Mahadev, "Karma and Grace: Religious Difference in Millennial Sri Lanka" (Columbia UP, 2023)
84 hours 28 mins; July 06, 2024
Aaron Sherraden, "Śambūka's Death Toll: A History of Motives and Motifs in an Evolving Rāmāyaṇa Narrative" (Anthem Press, 2023)
35 mins; July 04, 2024
Hindutva and the Muslim Subject
43 mins; July 04, 2024
Nimmagadda Bhargav, "Stringers and the Journalistic Field: Marginalities and Precarious News Labour in Small-Town India" (Routledge, 2023)
48 mins; July 02, 2024
Souvik Mukherjee, "Videogames in the Indian Subcontinent: Development, Culture(s) and Representations" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
25 mins; July 01, 2024
Swapnil Rai, "Networked Bollywood: How Star Power Globalized Hindi Cinema" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
52 mins; June 29, 2024
Shyam Ranganathan, "Yoga - Anticolonial Philosophy: An Action-Focused Guide to Practice" (Singing Dragon, 2024)
35 mins; June 27, 2024
Reeju Ray, "Placing the Frontier in British North-East India: Law, Custom, and Knowledge" (Oxford UP, 2023)
62 hours 25 mins; June 26, 2024
Saqib Khan, "Tribe-Class Linkages: The History and Politics of the Agrarian Movement in Tripura" (Routledge, 2024)
34 mins; June 26, 2024
Ishita Tiwary, "Video Culture in India: The Analog Era" (Oxford UP, 2024)
63 hours 48 mins; June 26, 2024
Edward A. Alpers and Thomas F. McDow, "A Primer for Teaching Indian Ocean World History: Ten Design Principles" (Duke UP, 2024)
80 hours 51 mins; June 25, 2024
Shuchi Kapila, "Postmemory and the Partition of India: Learning to Remember" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024)
57 mins; June 25, 2024
Pinky Hota, "The Violence of Recognition: Adivasi Indigeneity and Anti-Dalitness in India" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
51 mins; June 23, 2024
Suganya Anandakichenin, "For My Blemishless Lord: Commentaries on Tiruppāṇāḻvār's Amalaṉ Āti Pirāṉ" (de Gruyter, 2023)
35 mins; June 20, 2024
Kira Huju, "Cosmopolitan Elites: Indian Diplomats and the Social Hierarchies of Global Order" (Oxford UP, 2023)
68 hours 7 mins; June 17, 2024
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, "Sound in Indian Film and Audiovisual Media: History, Practices and Production" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
63 hours 6 mins; June 17, 2024
Carl Ernst and Patrick D'Silva, "Breathtaking Revelations: The Science of Breath from 'The Fifty Kamarupa Verses' to Hazrat Inayat Khan" (Suluk Press, 2024)
60 hours 31 mins; June 14, 2024
Nivedita Menon, "Secularism As Misdirection: Critical Thought from the Global South" (Duke UP, 2024)
69 hours 14 mins; June 13, 2024
Sudev Sheth, "Bankrolling Empire: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
52 mins; June 13, 2024
Matthew Robertson, "Puruṣa: Personhood in Ancient India" (Oxford UP, 2024)
47 mins; June 13, 2024
The European Association for South Asian Studies
14 mins; June 11, 2024
Andrew McDowell, "Breathless: Tuberculosis, Inequality, and Care in Rural India" (Stanford UP, 2024)
87 hours 7 mins; June 10, 2024
Manisha Anantharaman, "Recycling Class: The Contradictions of Inclusion in Urban Sustainability" (MIT Press, 2024)
40 mins; June 07, 2024
Marcus Schmücker, "Visnu-Narayana: Changing Forms and the Becoming of a Deity in Indian Religious Traditions" (Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2023)
31 mins; June 06, 2024
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