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Afsar Mohammad, "Remaking History: 1948 Police Action and the Muslims of Hyderabad" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

40 mins; December 06, 2023

David McMahan on Rethinking Meditation

72 hours 48 mins; December 04, 2023

Nur Sobers-Khan et al., "Beyond Colonial Rupture: Print Culture and the Emergence of Muslim Modernity in Nineteenth-Century South Asia" (2023)

41 mins; December 04, 2023

Amya Agarwal, "Contesting Masculinities and Women’s Agency in Kashmir" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)

39 mins; December 04, 2023

Sima Saigal, "The Second World War and North East India: Shadows of Yesteryears" (Routledge, 2022)

81 hours 52 mins; December 03, 2023

Samiparna Samanta, "Meat, Mercy, Morality: Animals and Humanitarianism in Colonial Bengal, 1850-1920" (Oxford UP, 2021)

69 hours 25 mins; December 02, 2023

Vedic Texts, Indus Script, Aryan Migration

39 mins; November 30, 2023

Sandra Destradi, "Reluctance in World Politics: Why States Fail to Act Decisively" (Bristol UP, 2023)

51 mins; November 30, 2023

John Zubrzycki, "Dethroned: The Downfall of India’s Princely States" (Hurst, 2024)

59 mins; November 30, 2023

Sayan Dey, "Performing Memories and Weaving Archives: Creolized Cultures across the Indian Ocean" (Anthem Press, 2023)

45 mins; November 27, 2023

Greg Bailey, "The Brahmavaivarta Purana (Ganesa Khanda): Ancient Indian Tradition and Mythology" (Motilal Banarsidass, 2022)

33 mins; November 23, 2023

Dominik A. Haas, "Gāyatrī: Mantra and Mother of the Vedas" (Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2023)

52 mins; November 22, 2023

Raj Balkaran and McComas Taylor, "Visions and Revisions in Sanskrit Narrative: Studies in the Sanskrit Epics and Purāṇas" (ANU Press, 2023)

59 mins; November 21, 2023

Arupjyoti Saikia, "The Quest for Modern Assam: A History, 1942-2000" (India Allen Lane, 2023)

49 mins; November 16, 2023

Keith Cantú, "Like a Tree Universally Spread: Sri Sabhapati Swami And Śivarājayoga" (Oxford UP, 2023)

41 mins; November 16, 2023

Pavitra Sundar, "Listening with a Feminist Ear: Soundwork in Bombay Cinema" (U Michigan Press, 2023)

57 mins; November 15, 2023

Aditya Balasubramanian, "Toward a Free Economy: Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India" (Princeton UP, 2023)

100 hours 4 mins; November 11, 2023

I Kick and I Fly

52 mins; November 09, 2023

Steven E. Lindquist, "The Literary Life of Yājñavalkya" (SUNY Press, 2023)

31 mins; November 09, 2023

Vanessa R. Sasson, "The Gathering: A Story of the First Buddhist Women" (Equinox, 2023)

53 mins; November 08, 2023

David Veevers, "The Great Defiance: How the World Took on the British Empire" (Ebury Press, 2023)

80 hours 55 mins; November 04, 2023

Yigal Bronner, "A Lasting Vision: Dandin's Mirror in the World of Asian Letters" (Oxford UP, 2023)

57 mins; November 04, 2023

Understanding Narendra Modi: The Poetry of a Populist Leader

27 mins; November 03, 2023

Christopher Jain Miller, "Embodying Transnational Yoga: Eating, Singing, and Breathing in Transformation" (Routledge, 2023)

46 mins; November 02, 2023

Faiza Moatasim, "Master Plans and Encroachments: The Architecture of Informality in Islamabad" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)

54 mins; October 30, 2023

Arjun Shankar, "Brown Saviors and Their Others: Race, Caste, Labor, and the Global Politics of Help in India" (Duke UP, 2023)

70 hours 4 mins; October 28, 2023

Réka Máté, "Portrayals of Women in Pakistan: An Analysis of Fahmīdah Riyāẓ's Urdu Poetry" (de Gruyter, 2023)

35 mins; October 26, 2023

Maitrayee Deka, "Traders and Tinkers: Bazaars in the Global Economy" (Stanford UP, 2023)

51 mins; October 20, 2023

Cleric, Cadre, Businessman: China’s Development Strategy in Sri Lanka

32 mins; October 20, 2023

Stephen Robert Miller, "Over the Seawall: Tsunamis, Cyclones, Drought, and the Delusion of Controlling Nature" (Island Press, 2023)

39 mins; October 20, 2023

Vikram Visana, "Uncivil Liberalism: Labour, Capital and Commercial Society in Dadabhai Naoroji’s Political Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

70 hours 45 mins; October 18, 2023

Mukti Lakhi Mangharam, "Freedom Inc.: Gendered Capitalism in New Indian Literature and Culture" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

64 hours 31 mins; October 17, 2023

Swati Ganguly, "Tagore's University: A History of Visva-Bharati, 1921-1961" (New India Foundation, 2022)

115 hours 29 mins; October 16, 2023

Smith Mehta, "The New Screen Ecology in India: Digital Transformation of Media" (British Film Institute, 2023)

65 hours 3 mins; October 15, 2023

Lucy Fulford, "The Exiled: Empire, Immigration and the Ugandan Asian Exodus" (Coronet, 2023)

52 mins; October 13, 2023

Patrick Laude, "Surrendering to the Self: Ramana Maharshi's Message for the Present" (Hurst, 2021)

45 mins; October 12, 2023

The Future of Superstates: A Discussion with Alasdair Roberts

42 mins; October 09, 2023

Arunima Datta, "Waiting on Empire: A History of Indian Travelling Ayahs in Britain" (Oxford UP, 2023)

72 hours 11 mins; October 07, 2023

India, Asia, and the Global South

23 mins; October 06, 2023

Ishvarchandra Vidyasagar, "Against High-Caste Polygamy: An Annotated Translation" (Oxford UP, 2023)

44 mins; October 04, 2023

Naisargi N. Davé, "Indifference: On the Praxis of Interspecies Being" (Duke UP, 2023)

72 hours 38 mins; October 02, 2023

Aparna Chandra, "Court on Trial: A Data-Driven Account of the Supreme Court of India" (India Viking, 2023)

72 hours 27 mins; September 30, 2023

Sumit Chakrabarti, "Local Selfhood, Global Turns: Akshay Kumar Dutta and Public Culture in Nineteenth-Century Bengal" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

38 mins; September 28, 2023

Aditi Surie and Ursula Huws, "Platformization and Informality: Pathways of Change, Alteration, and Transformation" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)

66 hours 29 mins; September 27, 2023

Naveeda Khan, "In Quest of a Shared Planet: Negotiating Climate from the Global South" (Fordham UP, 2023)

54 mins; September 26, 2023

Nigel Biggar, "Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning" (William Collins, 2023)

78 hours 21 mins; September 25, 2023

Nigel Biggar, "Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning" (William Collins, 2023)

78 hours 21 mins; September 25, 2023

Rahul Ranjan, "The Political Life of Memory: Birsa Munda in Contemporary India" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

33 mins; September 22, 2023

Divya Cherian, "Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia" (U California Press, 2023)

57 mins; September 22, 2023

Jennifer D. Ortegren, "Middle-Class Dharma: Gender, Aspiration, and the Making of Contemporary Hinduism" (Oxford UP, 2023)

40 mins; September 21, 2023

Matthew R. Dasti, "Vatsyayana's Commentary on the Nyaya-Sutra: A Guide" (Oxford UP, 2023)

76 hours 45 mins; September 20, 2023

Ian Patel, "We're Here Because You Were There: Immigration and the End of Empire" (Verso, 2021)

61 hours 24 mins; September 18, 2023

Joshua Ehrlich, "The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

40 mins; September 16, 2023

Charlotte Lydia Riley, "Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain " (Penguin, 2023)

46 mins; September 15, 2023

Development and Migration in Contemporary Asia

27 mins; September 15, 2023

Christopher T. Fleming et al., "Science and Society in the Sanskrit World" (Brill, 2023)

41 mins; September 14, 2023

Guillemette Crouzet, "Inventing the Middle East: Britain and the Persian Gulf in the Age of Global Imperialism" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)

61 hours 39 mins; September 13, 2023

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34 mins; September 12, 2023

India, a Non-Aligned Member of the International System?

33 mins; September 11, 2023

Muḥsin Jāsim Mūsawī, "The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures: Global Commodification, Translation, and the Culture Industry" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

54 mins; September 10, 2023

Prachi Deshpande, "Scripts of Power: Writing, Language Practices, and Cultural History in Western India" (Permanent Black, 2023)

59 mins; September 09, 2023

Divya Cherian, "The Owl and the Occult: Popular Politics and Social Liminality in Early Modern South Asia" (2023)

55 mins; September 09, 2023

Hafsa Kanjwal, "Colonizing Kashmir: State-building under Indian Occupation" (Stanford UP, 2023)

45 mins; September 08, 2023

Maximillian Mørch, "Plains of Discontent: A Political History of Nepal’s Tarai (1743-2019)" (FinePrint, 2023)

47 mins; September 07, 2023

Kerry P. C. San Chirico. "Between Hindu and Christian: Khrist Bhaktas, Catholics, and the Negotiation of Devotion in Banaras" (Oxford UP, 2022)

53 mins; September 07, 2023

Ravi Gupta and Kenneth Valpey, "The Bhagavata Purana: Sacred Text and Living Tradition" (Columbia UP, 2013)

53 mins; September 06, 2023

Annie Rachel Royson, "Texts, Traditions, and Sacredness: Cultural Translation in Kristapurana" (Routledge, 2023)

53 mins; August 31, 2023

Nishanth Injam, "The Best Possible Experience: Stories" (Pantheon, 2023)

36 mins; August 31, 2023

Emilia Bachrach, "Religious Reading and Everyday Lives in Devotional Hinduism" (Oxford UP, 2022)

45 mins; August 30, 2023

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92 hours 54 mins; August 27, 2023

Indrajit Roy, "Passionate Politics: Democracy, Development and India’s 2019 General Election" (Manchester UP, 2023)

80 hours 17 mins; August 25, 2023

Samrat Choudhury, "Northeast India: A Political History" (Oxford UP, 2023)

35 mins; August 24, 2023

Kelzang T. Tashi, "World of Worldly Gods: The Persistence and Transformation of Shamanic Bon in Buddhist Bhutan" (Oxford UP, 2023)

43 mins; August 24, 2023

Thomas Simpson, "The Frontier in British India: Space, Science, and Power in the Nineteenth Century" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

64 hours 52 mins; August 22, 2023

Romit Chowdhury, "City of Men: Masculinities and Everyday Morality on Public Transport" (Rutgers UP, 2023)

41 mins; August 22, 2023

Ruchi Chaturvedi, "Violence of Democracy: Interparty Conflict in South India" (Duke UP, 2023)

57 mins; August 21, 2023

Nicholas Hoover Wilson, "Modernity's Corruption: Empire and Morality in the Making of British India" (Columbia UP, 2023)

46 mins; August 17, 2023

Renny Thomas, "Science and Religion in India: Beyond Disenchantment" (Routledge, 2022)

29 mins; August 10, 2023

Michael Baltutis, "The Festival of Indra: Innovation, Archaism, and Revival in a South Asian Performance" (SUNY Press, 2023)

51 mins; August 03, 2023

Breaking Out: An Indian Woman's American Journey

15 mins; August 01, 2023

Diya Gupta, "India in the Second World War: An Emotional History" (Oxford UP, 2023)

57 mins; July 31, 2023

Mayur R. Suresh, "Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi's Courts" (Fordham UP, 2022)

49 mins; July 30, 2023

Tom Young, "Unmaking the East India Company: British Art and Political Reform in Colonial India, c. 1813-1858" (Paul Mellon Centre, 2023)

56 mins; July 29, 2023

India's Development Diplomacy and Soft Power in Africa

24 mins; July 28, 2023

Daisy Cheung and Michael Dunn, "Advance Directives Across Asia: A Comparative Socio-legal Analysis" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

54 mins; July 28, 2023

Brenda E. F. Beck, "Hidden Paradigms: Comparing Epic Themes, Characters, and Plot Structures" (U Toronto Press, 2022)

47 mins; July 27, 2023

Lisa Mitchell, "Hailing the State: Indian Democracy Between Elections" (Duke UP, 2023)

68 hours 7 mins; July 25, 2023

Usha Raman and Sumana Kasturi, "Childscape, Mediascape: Children and Media in India" (Orient BlackSwan, 2023)

37 mins; July 21, 2023

Dimitry Shevchenko, "Mirror of Nature, Mirror of Self: Mirror of Self: Models of Consciousness in Sāṃkhya, Yoga, and Advaita Vedānta" (Oxford UP, 2023)

35 mins; July 20, 2023

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19 mins; July 20, 2023

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14 mins; July 20, 2023

Brahma Prakash, "Body on the Barricades: Life, Art and Resistance in Contemporary India" (LeftWord, 2023)

54 mins; July 19, 2023

Ajay Gudavarthy, "Politics, Ethics and Emotions in ‘New India’" (Routledge, 2023)

34 mins; July 16, 2023

Roluah Puia, "Nationalism in the Vernacular: State, Tribes, and Politics of Peace in Northeast India" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

46 mins; July 15, 2023

Callie Wilkinson, "Empire of Influence: The East India Company and the Making of Indirect Rule" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

40 mins; July 14, 2023

Ankur Barua, "Exploring Hindu Philosophy" (Equinox Publishing, 2023)

33 mins; July 13, 2023

Anam Zakaria, "1971: A People's History from Bangladesh, Pakistan and India" (Vintage Books, 2021)

61 hours 5 mins; July 12, 2023

Nile Green, "How Asia Found Herself: A Story of Intercultural Understanding" (Yale UP, 2023)

99 hours 30 mins; July 08, 2023

Hindu Nationalism and Lower Caste Politics

26 mins; July 07, 2023

Daniel J. Soars and Nadya Pohran, "Hindu-Christian Dual Belonging" (Routledge, 2022)

33 mins; July 06, 2023

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