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Radhika Seshan and Ryuto Shimada, "Connecting the Indian Ocean World: Across Sea and Land" (Routledge, 2023)

52 mins; July 02, 2023

Afghanistan-Pakistan Relations: A Clash of Identities?

35 mins; June 30, 2023

Yael Rice, "The Brush of Insight: Artists and Agency at the Mughal Court" (U Washington Press, 2023)

59 mins; June 30, 2023

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

47 mins; June 29, 2023

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

30 mins; June 22, 2023

Sangraha: Digital Cataloguing of Sanskrit Manuscripts

33 mins; June 21, 2023

Arvind-Pal Singh Mandair, "Sikh Philosophy: Exploring Gurmat Concepts in a Decolonizing World" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

66 hours 10 mins; June 20, 2023

The Outsourcer: The Story of India's IT Revolution

17 mins; June 19, 2023

Leela Fernandes, "Governing Water in India: Inequality, Reform, and the State" (U Washington Press, 2022)

37 mins; June 17, 2023

Tania James, "Loot: A Novel" (Knopf, 2023)

45 mins; June 16, 2023

Douglas Ober, "Dust on the Throne: The Search for Buddhism in Modern India" (Stanford UP, 2023)

101 hours 43 mins; June 16, 2023

Tanvi Srivastava, trans., "The War Diary of Asha-san: From Tokyo to Netaji's Indian National Army" (Harper Collins, 2022)

44 mins; June 15, 2023

Francis Cody, "The News Event: Popular Sovereignty in the Age of Deep Mediatization" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

45 mins; June 14, 2023

Malini Ranganathan et al., "Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City" (Cornell UP, 2023)

80 hours 17 mins; June 13, 2023

Maitrayee Chaudhuri and Manish Thakur, "Doing Theory: Locations, Hierarchies and Disjunctions" (Orient Blackswan, 2018)

45 mins; June 11, 2023

Loriliai Biernacki, "The Matter of Wonder: Abhinavagupta's Panentheism and the New Materialism" (Oxford UP, 2023)

31 mins; June 08, 2023

Scott R. Stroud, "The Evolution of Pragmatism in India: Ambedkar, Dewey, and the Rhetoric of Reconstruction" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

62 hours 39 mins; June 03, 2023

J. Daniel Elam, "World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth: Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics" (Fordham UP, 2020)

58 mins; May 31, 2023

Ashok Gopal, "A Part Apart: The Life and Thought of B. R. Ambedkar" (Navayana, 2023)

36 mins; May 30, 2023

Anne Gerritsen and Burton Cleetus, "Histories of Health and Materiality in the Indian Ocean World: Medicine, Material Culture and Trade, 1600-2000" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

54 mins; May 29, 2023

Burkhard Schnepel and Julia Verne, "Cargoes in Motion: Materiality and Connectivity across the Indian Ocean" (Ohio UP, 2022)

44 mins; May 27, 2023

Baba Padmanji, "Yamuna's Journey" (Speaking Tiger Books, 2022)

40 mins; May 25, 2023

Elise Coquereau-Saouma and Daniel Raveh, "The Making of Contemporary Indian Philosophy: Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya" (Routledge, 2022)

26 mins; May 25, 2023

Philip Gooding, "Droughts, Floods, and Global Climatic Anomalies in the Indian Ocean World" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)

57 mins; May 22, 2023

Srila Roy, "Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India" (Duke UP, 2022)

77 hours 10 mins; May 22, 2023

Rila Mukherjee, "India in the Indian Ocean World: From the Earliest Times to 1800 CE" (Springer, 2022)

46 mins; May 21, 2023

Waqas Butt, "Life Beyond Waste: Work and Infrastructure in Urban Pakistan" (Stanford UP, 2023)

55 mins; May 21, 2023

Moyukh Chatterjee, "Composing Violence: The Limits of Exposure and the Making of Minorities" (Duke UP, 2023)

53 mins; May 20, 2023

Mark LeVine, "We'll Play Till We Die: Journeys Across a Decade of Revolutionary Music in the Muslim World" (U California Press, 2022)

71 hours 58 mins; May 19, 2023

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

54 mins; May 18, 2023

The Politics of Community-Making in New Urban India

27 mins; May 17, 2023

Nienke Boer, "The Briny South: Displacement and Sentiment in the Indian Ocean World" (Duke UP, 2023)

45 mins; May 16, 2023

Sebanti Chatterjee, "Choral Voices: Ethnographic Imaginations of Sound and Sacrality" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

55 mins; May 14, 2023

Leyla Jagiella, "Among the Eunuchs: A Muslim Transgender Journey" (Hurst, 2022)

79 hours 57 mins; May 12, 2023

Cristina-Ioana Dragomir, "Power on the Move: Adivasi and Roma Accessing Social Justice" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

57 mins; May 12, 2023

The International Association of Sanskrit Studies

25 mins; May 10, 2023

Supurna Banerjee et al., "The Violent Domestic Law: Its Practice and Strategies of Survival" (Zubaan Academic, 2022)

46 mins; May 08, 2023

Mrinalini Sinha and Manu Goswami, "Political Imaginaries in Twentieth-Century India" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

61 hours 55 mins; May 07, 2023

Rupal Oza, "Semiotics of Rape: Sexual Subjectivity and Violation in Rural India" (Duke UP, 2022)

49 mins; May 06, 2023

Francis Xavier Clooney, "Saint Joseph in South India: Poetry, Mission and Theology in Costanzo Gioseffo Beschi's Tēmpāvaṇi" (Brill, 2022)

62 hours 21 mins; May 04, 2023

Chandra Mallampalli, "South Asia's Christians: Between Hindu and Muslim" (Oxford UP, 2023)

72 hours 51 mins; May 01, 2023

K. N. Sunandan, "Caste, Knowledge, and Power: Ways of Knowing in Twentieth Century Malabar" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

53 mins; April 30, 2023

Scott Carney and Jason Miklian, "The Vortex: A True Story of History's Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation" (Ecco Press, 2022)

58 mins; April 29, 2023

David Shulman and Heike Oberlin, "Two Masterpieces of Kuttiyattam: Mantrankam and Anguliyankam" (Oxford UP, 2019)

56 mins; April 27, 2023

Saadia Sumbal, "Islam and Religious Change in Pakistan: Sufis and Ulema in 20th-Century South Asia" (Routledge, 2021)

34 mins; April 24, 2023

Mitul Baruah, "Slow Disaster: Political Ecology of Hazards and Everyday Life in the Brahmaputra Valley, Assam" (Routledge, 2022)

49 mins; April 22, 2023

The Promise of Multispecies Justice

33 mins; April 21, 2023

Reading

22 mins; April 20, 2023

Eberhard Guhe, "An Indian Theory of Defeasible Reasoning: The Doctrine of Upādhi in the Upādhidarpaṇa" (Harvard UP, 2022)

73 hours 9 mins; April 20, 2023

Ângela Barreto Xavier, "Religion and Empire in Portuguese India: Conversion, Resistance, and the Making of Goa" (SUNY Press, 2022)

44 mins; April 20, 2023

Cao Yin, "Chinese Sojourners in Wartime Raj, 1942-45" (Oxford UP, 2022)

70 hours 55 mins; April 19, 2023

Zoha Waseem, "Insecure Guardians: Enforcement, Encounters and Everyday Policing in Postcolonial Karachi" (Oxford UP, 2022)

52 mins; April 18, 2023

Alexander Jabbari, "The Making of Persianate Modernity: Language and Literary History between Iran and India" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

76 hours 30 mins; April 16, 2023

Slum Tourism and Affective Economy in Delhi, India

28 mins; April 14, 2023

Aleksandar Uskokov, "The Philosophy of the Brahma-sutra: An Introduction" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

50 mins; April 13, 2023

Nikhil Menon, "Planning Democracy: Modern India’s Quest for Development" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

43 mins; April 13, 2023

Rajesh Veeraraghavan, "Patching Development: Information Politics and Social Reform in India" (Oxford UP, 2022)

68 hours 9 mins; April 11, 2023

A Chat with Sanskrit Scholar John Brockington

27 mins; April 10, 2023

Nishant Kumar, "Religious Offense and Censorship of Publications: An Enquiry Through the Prism of Indian Laws and the Judiciary" (Routledge, 2022)

66 hours 48 mins; April 08, 2023

Tony K. Stewart, "Witness to Marvels: Sufism and Literary Imagination" (U California Press, 2019)

47 mins; April 06, 2023

Sudha Rajagopalan, "Journeys of Soviet Things: Cold War as Lived Experience in Cuba and India" (Routledge, 2023)

41 mins; April 04, 2023

Gender and Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh

22 mins; March 31, 2023

Laurah E. Klepinger, "Transnational Yoga at Work: Spiritual Tourism and Its Blind Spots" (Lexington Books, 2022)

39 mins; March 30, 2023

Taylor C. Sherman, "Nehru's India: A History in Seven Myths" (Princeton UP, 2022)

37 mins; March 29, 2023

Uddipana Goswami, "Gendering Peace in Violent Peripheries: Marginality, Masculinity, and Feminist Agency" (Routledge, 2022)

57 mins; March 26, 2023

Ching Keng, "Toward a New Image of Paramartha: Yogacara and Tathagatagarbha Buddhism Revisited" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

64 hours 39 mins; March 25, 2023

Divya Cherian, "Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia" (U California Press, 2022)

72 hours 35 mins; March 24, 2023

Adam Michael Auerbach and Tariq Thachil, "Migrants and Machine Politics: How India's Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness" (Princeton UP, 2023)

62 hours 57 mins; March 24, 2023

The Great Goa Land Grab

26 mins; March 24, 2023

Andrea Acri and Paolo E. Rosati, "Tantra, Magic, and Vernacular Religions in Monsoon Asia: Texts, Practices, and Practitioners from the Margins" (Routledge, 2022)

47 mins; March 23, 2023

Julia Kowalski, "Counseling Women: Kinship Against Violence in India" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)

36 mins; March 22, 2023

Ezra Rashkow, "The Nature of Endangerment in India: Tigers, 'Tribes', Extermination and Conservation, 1818-2020" (Oxford UP, 2023)

48 mins; March 16, 2023

Illuminations Episode 3: Divine Technology

16 mins; March 14, 2023

Rahul Sagar, "The Progressive Maharaja: Sir Madhava Rao's Hints on the Art and Science of Government" (Oxford UP, 2021)

68 hours 6 mins; March 13, 2023

Audrey Truschke, "The Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of Indo-Muslim Rule" (Columbia UP, 2021)

64 hours 23 mins; March 10, 2023

Greg Bailey, "The Vinayaka Mahatmya" (Dev Publishers, 2023)

56 mins; March 09, 2023

Rotem Geva, "Delhi Reborn: Partition and Nation Building in India's Capital" (Stanford UP, 2022)

55 mins; March 07, 2023

Birth Rates and the Future of Social Movements: A Discussion with Jack Goldstone

34 mins; March 06, 2023

Rohit De, "A People's Constitution: The Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic" (Princeton UP, 2018)

47 mins; March 06, 2023

Nikhil Menon, "Planning Democracy: Modern India's Quest for Development" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

35 mins; March 05, 2023

Isabel Huacuja Alonso, "Radio for the Millions: Hindi-Urdu Broadcasting Across Borders" (Columbia UP, 2022)

41 mins; March 02, 2023

Veena R. Howard et al., "The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Philosophy and Gender" (Bloomsbury, 2019)

47 mins; March 02, 2023

Affective Masculinities

19 mins; February 27, 2023

Elizabeth Lhost, "Everyday Islamic Law and the Making of Modern South Asia" (UNC Press, 2022)

56 mins; February 24, 2023

The UW-Madison Center for South Asia

34 mins; February 22, 2023

Elora Halim Chowdhury, "Ethical Encounters: Transnational Feminism, Human Rights, and War Cinema in Bangladesh" (Temple UP, 2022)

54 mins; February 22, 2023

Shannon Philip, "Becoming Young Men in a New India: Masculinities, Gender Relations and Violence in the Postcolony" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

37 mins; February 22, 2023

Monima Chadha, "Selfless Minds: A Contemporary Perspective on Vasubandhu's Metaphysics" (Oxford UP, 2022)

66 hours 17 mins; February 20, 2023

Michael Schiltz, "Accounting for the Fall of Silver: Hedging Currency Risk in Long-Distance Trade with Asia, 1870-1913" (Oxford UP, 2020)

35 mins; February 20, 2023

Justin W. Henry, "Ravana's Kingdom: The Ramayana and Sri Lankan History from Below" (Oxford UP, 2022)

25 mins; February 16, 2023

Shailaja Paik, "The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India" (Stanford UP, 2022)

48 mins; February 12, 2023

M. Christhu Doss, "India after the 1857 Revolt: Decolonising the Mind" (Routledge, 2022)

50 mins; February 12, 2023

Ijlal Naqvi, "Access to Power: Electricity and the Infrastructural State in Pakistan" (Oxford UP, 2022)

58 mins; February 11, 2023

Nilakantan RS, "South vs. North: India's Great Divide" (Juggernaut, 2023)

37 mins; February 11, 2023

Andrea Acri and Peter Sharrock, "The Creative South: Buddhist and Hindu Art in Mediaeval Maritime Asia" (Iseas-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2022)

48 mins; February 11, 2023

Buddhist Responses to COVID: A Discussion with Venerable Soorākkulame Pemaratana

56 mins; February 04, 2023

Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner, "Claiming the State: Active Citizenship and Social Welfare in Rural India" (Cambridge UP, 2018)

48 mins; February 03, 2023

Sue Ann Barratt and Aleah N. Ranjitsingh, "Dougla in the Twenty-First Century: Adding to the Mix" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)

74 hours 43 mins; February 02, 2023

Ute Hüsken, "Laughter, Creativity, and Perseverance: Female Agency in Buddhism and Hinduism" (Oxford UP, 2022)

47 mins; February 02, 2023

M. R. Sharan, "Last Among Equals: Power, Caste and Politics in Bihar's Villages" (Westland, 2021)

45 mins; January 30, 2023

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