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In each episode we sit down with a scholar who has contributed something extraordinary to our understanding of history, politics or culture in South Asia, and get a deeper insight into their work. South Asia Conversations is a production of the Centre of South Asian Studies at Cambridge University.

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Surinder Jodka, 'Why talk caste?: Emergent inequalities and cultures of hierarchy'

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2026 44:30

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Timothy Cooper, 'The atmosphere of film in Lahore: Towards an anthropology of media environments'

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2026 50:48

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Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, 'The loss of taste: memory, the senses and everyday eating in Delhi'

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2026 51:57

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Rahul Soni, 'The translation of Magadh by Shrikant Verma'

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2025 35:27

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Chander Velu, 'A business model experiment at a national scale: the case of Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) in India'

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 31, 2025 47:19

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Shankar Ramaswami, 'Souls in the Kalyug'

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2025 52:52

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Paul McBain, 'A drunken bee: Sunthorn Phu and the Buddhist landscapes of early Bangkok'

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2025 56:53

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P.B. Anand: 'Amartya Sen, capabilities and the Indian Way'

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2024 51:23

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Chris Moffat: 'The time of building: Kamil Khan Mumtaz and architecture in Pakistan'

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2024 54:12

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Shirin Rai: 'Depletion: The human costs of caring in New Delhi'

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 6, 2024 46:08

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Hemangini Gupta: 'The experimental South: Cities, labour and capitalism in startup India'

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 6, 2024 53:50

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Dr Lovleen Bhullar: 'Just transition for AMR: Lessons from wastewater management in India'

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2024 31:06

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Vandana Singh: 'Re-storying ourselves: science, the climate crisis and the future'

Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2024 56:30

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Kunal Sen: 'India's stalled path of structural transformation: what went wrong?'

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 29, 2024 42:01

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Ammara Maqsood: 'The value of difference: Hindu Muslim encounters in Karachi, Pakistan'

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2024 37:56

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Shannon Philip: 'A city of men? Youth masculinities and everyday gendered violences in urban India'

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 20, 2024 35:21

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Gerard McCarthy: 'Outsourcing the polity: non-state welfare, inequality and resistance in Myanmar'

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2022 49:43

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Rekha Bhangaonkar: 'Our water, but my water first: a case of groundwater management in semi-arid India'

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2022 37:08

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Sumathi Ramaswamy: 'A strange kindness: largesse and learning in the age of colonial capital'

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2022 55:28

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Benjamin Hegarty: 'Bureaucratic documents and signs of state recognition for Indonesian warias'

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2022 42:20

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Cameron Petrie: 'Cities, towns and villages: living in the diverse environments of the Indus Civilization'

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 7, 2022 64:15

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Ramachandra Guha: 'Beyond racial binaries: Western fighters for India's freedom'

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2022 57:27

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Arvind Rajagopal - 'From infrastructure to superstructure: a tale in three acts'

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2022 66:19

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Jessica Namakkal: 'Unsettling utopia: the making and unmaking of French India'

Play Episode Listen Later May 24, 2022 46:11

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Ines Zupanov: 'Christian missions in South India: hotspots of knowledge (17th-18th centuries)'

Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2022 49:36

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Asma Khan: 'Ammu: food to nourish your soul, from a life of cooking'

Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2022 26:29

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Jinee Lokaneeta: 'Policing in liberal democracies: legal violence and scientific interrogations in India'

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2022 47:52

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Sunil Mitra Kumar: 'Counterfactual thinking and causal mediation: an application to female labour force participation in India'

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2022 41:36

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Magnus Marsden: 'Intellectual Exchanges in Muslim Asia: Intersections of History and Geography'

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2022 58:38

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Mallika Leuzinger: 'Photography and the politics of intimacy in India'

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2022 42:04

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James Caron: 'Writing war from beyond war: material, imagination, and poetric landscapes in Afghanistan and Pakistan'

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2022 56:42

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Nidhi Singal, 'Educating children with disabilities during the pandemic and beyond: insights from Nepal'

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2021 56:23

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S. Sharada: 'South India and Southeast Asia: archaeometallurgical and iconographic explorations'

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2021 54:40

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Naila Kabeer: 'Paradigm shift or business as usual? Multi-stakeholder initiative in the Bangladesh garment industry in the wake of Rana Plaza'

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2021 49:43

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Mahesh Rangarajan, 'How the tiger became Indian: nature, nation and science in Indian conservation, 1970-2020'

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 28, 2021 41:19

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Adam Green, 'Small surface water bodies: an ancient path to sustainable collective action in northwest India?'

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2021 47:17

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Francis Cody, 'Law at large: notes on the public mediation of community in the juridical field'

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2021 59:06

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Jonathan Saha, 'Fatal associations: racial differentiation and interspecies empire in colonial Myanmar'

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2021 49:09

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Michael Edwards and Philippa Williams discuss the effects and changing nature of the spaces created within and by social media in online public and private spheres in Burma/Myanmar and India.

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South Asia and the Global South: with Dilip Menon and Samia Khatun

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 15, 2020 49:24

The second series of conversations features content from the Cambridge South Asian Seminar, a programme of double-headed presentations held online. This episode features Dilip Menon of the University of the Witwatersrand and Samia Khatun from SOAS.

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