New Books in the Indian Ocean World

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Indology In Canada Conference

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Mumbai

Islam In Kerala

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Islamic Ecumene

Moral Philosophy and De-Colonialism

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Hindi Heartland

Aesthetic Impropriety, Property Law and Postcolonial Style

Kochi Harbour Project

Vanilla (vanilla Plantifolia)

Ghar

Food, Culture and Society In India

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Renisa Mawani, "Across Oceans of Law: The Komagata Maru and Jurisdiction in the Time of Empire" (Duke UP, 2018)

In 1914 the British-built and Japanese-owned steamship Komagata Maru

left Hong Kong for Vancouver carrying 376 Punjabi migrants. Chartered

by railway contractor and purported rubber planter Gurdit Singh, the

ship and its passengers were denied ent... more

17 Jul 2026 • 55 min

Aditi Chandra, "Unruly Monuments: Disrupting the State at Delhi's Islamic Architecture" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

Unruly Monuments: Disrupting the State at Delhi's Islamic Architecture (Cambridge University Press, 2025) examines

how Delhi's Sultanate and Mughal architecture, dating from the twelfth

to the seventeenth centuries, became modern monuments and were... more

1 Jul 2026 • 1 hr 3 min

Alex Boodrookas, "Comrades Estranged: Labor and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century Persian Gulf" (Stanford UP, 2026)

In 1975, Kuwaiti workers orchestrated arguably the most powerful

citizen-led movement for noncitizen rights in the history of the Persian

Gulf. Their efforts built on decades of wide-ranging struggle over the

meanings and outlines of citizenship. ... more

20 Jun 2026 • 53 min

Shyam Ranganathan, "Moral Philosophy and De-Colonialism: The Irrationality of Oppression" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026)

Why have moral philosophers largely ignored colonialism? In Moral Philosophy and De-Colonialism: The Irrationality of Oppression (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026), Shyam Ranganathan tells the story of moral philosophy and colonialism and reveals the benef... more

21 May 2026 • 53 min

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Renisa Mawani

Professor of Sociology, University of British Columbia, author of Across Oceans of Law

University of British Columbia

Episode: Renisa Mawani, "Across Oceans of Law: The Komagata Maru and Jurisdiction in the Time of Empire" (Duke UP, 2018)

Aditi Chandra

Professor, UC Merced

University of California, Merced

Episode: Aditi Chandra, "Unruly Monuments: Disrupting the State at Delhi's Islamic Architecture" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

Alex Boodrookas

Assistant Professor of History

Metropolitan State University of Denver

Episode: Alex Boodrookas, "Comrades Estranged: Labor and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century Persian Gulf" (Stanford UP, 2026)

Shyam Ranganathan

Author of Moral Philosophy and De-Colonialism, The Irrationality of Oppression

York University

Episode: Shyam Ranganathan, "Moral Philosophy and De-Colonialism: The Irrationality of Oppression" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026)

Dr. Rob Rouphail

Assistant professor of African history, global history, environmental history

University of Iowa

Episode: Robert Rouphail, "Cyclonic Lives in an Indian Ocean World: Environment, Disaster, and Identity in Modern Mauritius" (Ohio UP, 2026)

TV. Paul

Professor of Political Science, McGill University; author of The Unfinished Quest

McGill University

Episode: T. V. Paul, "The Unfinished Quest: India's Search for Major Power Status from Nehru to Modi" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Julia Stephens

Author of Worldly Afterlives, Tracing Family Trails Between India and Empire

Rutgers University (Associate Professor of History)

Episode: Julia Stephens, "Worldly Afterlives: Tracing Family Trails Between India and Empire" (Princeton UP, 2025)

Dagmar Wujastyk

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Programs, Department of History, Classics, and Religion, University of Alberta

University of Alberta

Episode: Indology in Canada Conference: A Conversation with Dagmar Wujastyk

Tulasi Srinivas

Professor of Anthropology, Emerson College; author of The Goddess in the Mirror, An Anthropology of Beauty

Emerson College; Duke University Press

Episode: Tulasi Srinivas, "The Goddess in the Mirror: An Anthropology of Beauty" (Duke UP, 2025)

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Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, "Overdetermined: How Indian English Literature Becomes Ethnic, Postcolonial, and Anglophone" (Columbia UP, 2025)

Q: What can Edward Said's legacy teach today about the role of public intellectuals in a climate of academic precarity?

Said illustrates how scholars can engage publicly while maintaining rigorous scholarship, and his example prompts us to consider how to sustain teaching, research, and public engagement in a profession facing budget cuts and de-skilling.

Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, "Overdetermined: How Indian English Literature Becomes Ethnic, Postcolonial, and Anglophone" (Columbia UP, 2025)

Q: How does Lahiri's move to writing in Italian impact our reading of her work and the category of Indian American literature?

Her shift to Italian shows that linguistic change does not erase the themes of migration and self-formation; instead, it reveals how critics use language to frame authenticity and ethnicity, challenging fixed labels around 'ethnic' writing.

Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, "Overdetermined: How Indian English Literature Becomes Ethnic, Postcolonial, and Anglophone" (Columbia UP, 2025)

Q: Why is overdetermination important for understanding ethnic and postcolonial literature in the US?

Overdetermination exposes how scholars are framed by identitarian expectations and how those pressures shape interpretation, urging us to consider both the political implications and scholarly responsibilities involved in reading and teaching such literature.

Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, "Overdetermined: How Indian English Literature Becomes Ethnic, Postcolonial, and Anglophone" (Columbia UP, 2025)

Q: What do you mean by accented reading, and how does it challenge traditional approaches to literary criticism?

Accented reading foregrounds how readers' and writers' positions, identities, and languages co-create meaning in a text, shifting focus from a fixed identity of the work to the relationship and journey between reader and text.

Jürgen Schaflechner, "Hinglaj Devi: Identity, Change, and Solidification at a Hindu Temple in Pakistan" (Oxford UP, 2018)

Q: What does the term emancipation mean in the context of religious minorities in Pakistan, and how does your work address it?

Emancipation, for me, means the ability of a body to increase its field of action, with context-dependent expressions of agency; it can be visible or invisible, and is often complicated by how media and geopolitical forces frame minority experiences.

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Scholarly conversations center on recently published books and edited volumes spanning Indian Ocean world studies, Indology, postcolonial theory, diaspora histories, anthropology, and related humanities. Episodes commonly pair a book author or editor with an expert host for deep dives into methodology, archival practices, and the book's arguments, often illustrating broader themes like decolonization, transoceanic networks, gender and empire, labor and caste, and state formation. The format tends to emphasize rigorous analysis, accessible storytelling, and cross-disciplinary perspectives, making complex scholarly ideas approachable for educated listeners from academia, publishing, and policy. A noteworthy pattern is the emphasis on public s... more

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