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Fictions of Freedom: Migration, Modern Slavery and Bureaucracy in India (Cambridge UP, 2026) emerges from the fact of anti-trafficking interventions having led to newer forms of oppressions and entanglements of bureaucracy. Situating the lives of se... more

In the nineteenth century, global systems of capitalism and empire knit the North Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds into international networks in contest over the meanings of slavery and freedom. Sojourners, Sultans, and Slaves: America and the India... more

Defying the dire predictions that attended its birth as an

independent nation-state in 1947, the Indian republic is more than

seventy-five years old. And yet, it is a place where criticisms of

actually existing democracy are intense and strident.... more

In this conversation, we are entering an Indian Ocean world connected

by steamships, telegraphs, pilgrimage routes, and print. From Bombay

and the Gulf to Cairo and Mecca—and onward to Moscow and

Geneva—merchants, scholars, activists, and politica... more

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

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

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

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

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Srirupa Roy
Professor at the Chair and Chair of State and Democracy at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Göttingen (Göttingen, Germany)
Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Göttingen
Episode: Srirupa Roy, "The Political Outsider: Indian Democracy and the Lineages of Populism" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Roy Bar Sadeh
Historian of modern South Asia and the broader Islamic world; forthcoming book author
University of Oxford (Associate Professor in History, joining Sep 2026) / University of Manchester (Lecturer)
Episode: Muslims and the Minority Question across the Indian Ocean: A Conversation With Roy Bar Sadeh
Mohammed Alsudairi
Elector of Politics and International Relations of the Arabic-Speaking World
Centre for Arabic and Islamic Studies, Australian National University
Episode: Muslims and the Minority Question across the Indian Ocean: A Conversation With Roy Bar Sadeh
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)

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Srirupa Roy, "The Political Outsider: Indian Democracy and the Lineages of Populism" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Q: What is the significance of the long 1970s in your argument?
The long 1970s mark a turning point where the legitimating logic shifted from nation-building to democracy-building, setting the stage for curative democracy and the outsider paradigm that continues to shape Indian politics and its global echoes.
Srirupa Roy, "The Political Outsider: Indian Democracy and the Lineages of Populism" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Q: How does the Shah Commission fit into the broader story of the political outsider?
The Shah Commission helps illustrate how the post-emergency era consolidated the outsider as a legitimate moral voice and showed how public interest litigation and civil society activism emerged to restore democracy, while carrying over the outsider logic into later governance strategies.
Srirupa Roy, "The Political Outsider: Indian Democracy and the Lineages of Populism" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Q: Could you explain the central concept of curative democracy for our listeners?
Curative democracy is a way of thinking about political change as a repair or cure for a diseased democracy, rather than sweeping revolution, and it involves examining who is allowed to imagine and implement that cure and how legitimacy is constructed around outsider figures.
Robert Ivermee, "Glorious Failure: The Forgotten History of French Imperialism in India" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Q: Why is the word 'glorious' paired with 'failure' in the title?
Glory was used to promote imperial ambitions, especially the prestige of Louis XIV and the Company, but the same period ended with failure to secure a durable territorial empire, prompting later reinterpretations that framed the effort as noble but ultimately unsuccessful.
Robert Ivermee, "Glorious Failure: The Forgotten History of French Imperialism in India" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Q: Can you describe what makes Glorious Failure distinct from prior histories of French India?
The book foregrounds a French imperial project in India based on French archives rather than relying on British sources, showing that France pursued conquest and wealth through state-backed trading companies and mercantile elites, and highlighting how this failed to establish a lasting empire despite moments of considerable wealth and influence.

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This channel features scholarly conversations anchored in books and recent research across the Indian Ocean world. Episodes typically pair a presenter with a guest to explore historical, cultural, political, and literary topics through the lens of a recently published work or ongoing scholarly inquiry. Recurring themes include empire and mobility, labor and citizenship, decolonial thought, diaspora studies, religion and ritual, and interdisciplinary methods for studying oceans, networks, and cross-cultural exchange. The format often highlights archival sources, methodological approaches, and the practical implications of scholarly work for public understanding, making complex ideas accessible to researchers, students, and informed general l... more

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