In Theory co-host Disha Karnad Jani interviews Manan Ahmed Asif, Associate Professor of History at Columbia University and co-executive editor of the JHI, about his book, The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India (Harvard University Press, 2020).

The Lost Idea of Hindustan: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Manan Ahmed Asif

In Theory editor Disha Karnad Jani interviews Divya Cherian, Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University about her book, Merchants of Virtue. Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia (University of California University Press, 2022).

Merchants of Virtue: Disha Karnad Jani interviews Divya Cherian

In this latest episode of In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Stephen Legg about his new book, "Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi’s Urban Governmentalities" (University of Georgia Press, 2025). In the book, Legg provides a study of Indian anti-colonialism in the decades before Independence that foregrounds the spatially-mediated and bottom-up politics of old and New Delhi’s poor, its middle classes, and the prominent anti-colonial figures of the Indian National Congress, including especially the women of the anti-colonial movement. He centers the concept of parrhesia (from the later lectures of Michel Foucault) to arrive at an account of the governmentality of anti-colonialism in the years between mass civil disobedience and the Quit India Movement.

Spaces of Anticolonialism: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Stephen Legg

Conversation with Eli Cook on "The Pricing of Progress"

Introduced by Oz Frankel, Joan Wallach Scott and Gary Wilder discuss “Theses on Theory and History" at the New School on October 8, 2018.

“To Intervene yet again”: Theory Revolt, Live!

Disha Karnad Jani interviews Ethan Kleinberg, Joan Wallach Scott, and Gary Wilder about their Theses on Theory and History.

Disha Karnad Jani interviews Ethan Kleinberg, Joan Wallach Scott, and Gary Wilder

Richard Calis and Lillian Datchev interview Pamela Long

Boundaries of the International: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Jennifer Pitts

Simon Brown interviews Sophia Rosenfeld

Jessica Hinchy is an Assistant Professor of History at Nanyang Technological University. Jessica's research focuses on the intersection of empire, gender, and sexuality. In this episode, we speak with Jessica about her new book, Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India. Jessica's book focuses on the Hijra, a discipleship-based gender nonconforming community in India. Among other things, her work traces the British colonial state's campaign to eradicate the Hijra in the late 19th century, raising wider questions about the nature and motivations of colonial sexual regulation.

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#9: Jessica Hinchy on Governing Gender & Sexuality in Colonial India

A discussion of Professor Case's 2018 "The Age of Questions: Or, A First Attempt at an Aggregate History of the Eastern, Social, Woman, American, Jewish, Polish, Bullion, Tuberculosis, and Many Other Questions over the Nineteenth Century, and Beyond."

Simon Brown interviews Professor Holly Case

In Theory is the podcast of the Journal of the History of Ideas blog. The hosts of the JHI Blog team interview intellectual scholars in the fields of philosophy, literature, art history, natural and social sciences, religion, and political thought about their latest books and works. The aim of the JHI podcast is to highlight the huge diversity of intellectual history at university departments across the world.

Spaces of Anticolonialism: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Stephen Legg

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