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History
1001
Saiba Varma, "The Occupied Clinic: Militarism a...
An interview with Saiba Varma
61 min
1002
Tulasi Srinivas, "The Cow in the Elevator: An A...
An interview with Tulasi Srinivas
44 min
1003
Chad M. Bauman, "Anti-Christian Violence in Ind...
An Interview with Chad M. Bauman
45 min
1004
Bruce B. Lawrence, "The Bruce B. Lawrence Reade...
An interview with Bruce B. Lawrence and Ali Altaf Mian
66 min
1005
David Chaffetz, "Three Asian Divas: Women, Art ...
An interview with David Chaffetz
38 min
1006
Stuart Ray Sarbacker, "Tracing the Path of Yoga...
An interview with Stuart Ray Sarbacker
53 min
1007
Gopal K. Gupta, "Maya in the Bhagavata Purana: ...
An interview with Gopal K. Gupta
49 min
1008
Manan Ahmed Asif, "The Loss of Hindustan: The I...
An interview with Manan Ahmed Asif
68 min
1009
Narrating Africa in South Asia
An interview with Mahmood Kooria, Khatija Khader, and Sofia Péquignot
98 min
1010
Michiel Baas, "Muscular India: Masculinity, Mob...
An interview with Michiel Baas
56 min
1011
A Road into the Past: Reading a 19th-Century Il...
An interview with Diana Lange
22 min
1012
Courtney Bruntz and Brooke Schedneck, "Buddhist...
An interview with Courtney Bruntz and Brooke Schedneck
59 min
1013
Sienna R. Craig, "The Ends of Kinship: Connecti...
An interview with Sienna Craig
78 min
1014
Beatrice Nicolini, "Land and Maritime Empires i...
An interview with Beatrice Nicolini and Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya
54 min
1015
Saiba Varma, "The Occupied Clinic: Militarism a...
An interview with Saiba Varma
57 min
1016
Leah E. Comeau, "Material Devotion in a South I...
An interview with Leah Comeau
41 min
1017
Ayon Maharaj, "The Bloomsbury Research Handbook...
Maharaj offers first in-depth discussion of Vedanta and the many different systems of thought that make up this tradition of Indian philosophy...
48 min
1018
Antoinette Burton, "Africa in the Indian Imagin...
An interview with Antoinette Burton
41 min
1019
Leela Prasad, "The Audacious Raconteur: Soverei...
Can a subject be sovereign in a hegemony? Can creativity be reined in by forces of empire?
30 min
1020
Brian Black, "In Dialogue with the Mahābhārata"...
This book offers the first extensive study of the dialogue form in the Mahābhārata.,,
75 min
1021
P. Bilimoria and P. Hughes, "The Indian Diaspor...
Since the late 1990s, the Indian community in Australia has grown faster than any other immigrant community....
62 min
1022
Daniel Simpson, "The Truth of Yoga: A Comprehen...
Much of what is said about yoga is misleading.,.
69 min
1023
Dinyar Patel, "Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Natio...
Mahatma Gandhi called Dadabhai Naoroji the “father of the nation,” a title that today is reserved for Gandhi himself....
89 min
1024
S. Newcombe and K. O'Brien-Kop, "Routledge Hand...
This book offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary resource, which frames and contextualises the rapidly expanding fields that explore yoga and meditative techniques...
46 min
1025
Jinee Lokaneeta, "The Truth Machines: Policing,...
Using case studies and the results of extensive fieldwork, this book considers the nature of state power and legal violence in liberal democracies by focusing on the interaction between law, science, and policing in India...
55 min