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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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    • Nov 15, 2024 LATEST EPISODE
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    • 52 EPISODES


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

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2024 51:23


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

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2024 54:12


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

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 6, 2024 46:08


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

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 6, 2024 53:50


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

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2024 31:06


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

    Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2024 56:30


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

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 29, 2024 42:01


    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


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

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2022 49:43


    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


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

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2022 55:28


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

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2022 42:20


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

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 7, 2022 64:15


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

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2022 57:27


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

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2022 66:19


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

    Play Episode Listen Later May 24, 2022 46:11


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

    Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2022 49:36


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

    Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2022 26:29


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

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2022 47:52


    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


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

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2022 58:38


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

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2022 42:04


    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


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

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2021 56:23


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

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2021 54:40


    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


    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


    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


    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


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

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2021 49:09


    'A Detective and a Gentleman: Crime in Colonial Calcutta' with Anindita Ghosh

    Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2021 57:46


    'The End of Indenture?': with Neilesh Bose and Ashutosh Kumar

    Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2021 43:03


    'What is the intellectual history of India?': a roundtable discussion

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2021 98:13


    'Caste today' with Sharika Thiranagama and Suryakant Waghmore

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2021 42:59


    'Green Revolution': Shailaja Fennell

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 22, 2021 41:58


    'Plantationocene': with Sarah Besky and Maan Barua

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2021 41:07


    The scientific life in South Asia: with Charu Singh and Projit Mukharji

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2021 38:31


    Everyday voices and the early modern: with Abhishek Kaicker and Jagjeet Lally

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 19, 2020 45:38


    Publics, online and off: with Michael Edwards and Philippa Williams

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 4, 2020 47:38


    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.

    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.

    Climate crisis: with Debjani Bhattacharyya and Nayanika Mathur

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 14, 2020 35:08


    A second series of conversations features content from the Cambridge South Asian Seminar, a programme of double-headed presentations held online. In the first episode, Nayanika Mathur (University of Oxford) and Debjani Bhattacharyya (Drexel University) highlight the effects of the climate crisis on aspects of South Asian civil society and politics. (Please note: due to a recording error, the first few minutes of this seminar are missing from the file)

    Neeladri Bhattacharya Pt 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 10, 2020 55:52


    The second of our conversation with Neeladri Bhattacharya, one of South Asia's great scholars.  In this episode, Neeladri explains how political pressures are changing the teaching of history in India, and addresses the history of the Koh-i-Noor diamond.  The interviewers are the Centre of South Asian Studies' Dr Edward Anderson and Dr Partha Pratim Shil.  The South Asia podcast is a production of Cambridge University's Centre of South Asian Studies.

    Neeladri Bhattacharya Pt 1

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2020 39:28


    The first of our two part conversation with Neeladri Bhattacharya, one of South Asia's great scholars.  In this episode, Neeladri explains how the teaching of history in India has evolved over the last 40 years, and the role that he has played in those changes.  The interviewers are the Centre of South Asian Studies' Dr Edward Anderson and Dr Partha Pratim Shil. 

    Tanika Sarkar

    Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2020 56:35


    In this episode, Professor Tanikar Sarkar of Jawaharlal Nehru University looks back on her career chronicling the rise of the Hindu right, and reflects on the ways in which the Hindutva movement has interacted with feminism and caste divisions.  The interviewer is the Centre of South Asian Studies' Dr Anjali Bhardwaj-Datta. The South Asia Podcast is a production of Cambridge University's Centre of South Asian Studies. 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.       

    Shohini Ghosh

    Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2020 40:42


    In this episode, film-maker and academic Professor Shohini Ghosh explores queerness, films and film-making in India. She also reflects on her own career as a documentary-maker and academic.  The interviewer is the Centre of South Asian Studies' Dr Anjali Bhardwaj-Datta. The South Asia podcast is a production of Cambridge University's Centre of South Asian Studies. 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.       

    Justin Jones

    Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2020 35:20


    In this episode, Professor Justin Jones explores the history of Shia Islam in India, including the role of Shia legal frameworks in modern India.   The interviewer is the Centre of South Asian Studies' Dr Edward Anderson.

    Yasmin Khan

    Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2020 42:10


    In this episode, Yasmin Khan of the University of Oxford reflects on  India's contributions to World War II and Britain's sense of self in relation to India since the end of empire.  The interviewer is the Centre of South Asian Studies' Dr Edward Anderson.  The South Asia Podcast is a production of Cambridge University's Centre of South Asian Studies. 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.   

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