South Asia @ Yale

Ramachandra Guha is one of India’s most famous living historians. He’s the author of voluminous biographies of Mahatma Gandhi, pioneering environmental histories, acclaimed books on cricket, and India After Gandhi, the essential text on modern Indian history. In October 2022, he spent two weeks at Yale University giving lectures, mentoring students, and meeting with faculty. Near the end of his stay, the South Asian Studies Council sat down with Guha to chat about the field of South Asian Studies, history and the future in modern India, and, of course, the game of cricket. Listen now.

Hosted by Daevan Mangalmurti YC ‘24, featuring Professor Sunil Amrith and Professor Ramachandra Guha

History, Democracy, and Cricket: A Conversation with Ramachandra Guha

Srinath Raghavan is Professor of International Relations and History at Ashoka University. He is also the author of four acclaimed books on Indian history—most recently Fierce Enigmas: A History of the United States in South Asia—and a a forthcoming global history of India in the 1970s. Raghavan spent the spring 2023 semester at Yale as a visiting professor. In this podcast, he sits down with South Asian Studies Council to discuss the relationship between the events of the 1970s and contemporary Indian politics. Listen now.
Hosted by Daevan Mangalmurti YC ‘24, featuring Professor Srinath Raghavan.

Indian Politics, 1970 to Today: A Conversation with Srinath Raghavan

Sushant Singh is Senior Fellow at Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi, former Deputy Editor of the Indian Express for strategic affairs, national security, and international affairs, and a three-time visiting lecturer at Yale University. He was awarded the Ramnath Goenka Prize for Excellence in Journalism in both 2017 and 2018. A 20-year veteran of the Indian Army, he is also the author of books including Mission Overseas: Daring Operations by the Indian Military and Note by Note: The India Story 1947–2017. In this podcast, he sits down with South Asian Studies Council to discuss Indian journalism, politics, and military, with an eye toward the near future of India’s internal and global ambitions. Listen now.

Hosted by Daevan Mangalmurti YC ’24, featuring Sushant Singh.

Politics and Realities of Modern India: A Conversation with Sushant Singh

Manoj Mitta is a former senior editor at Times of India and Indian Express and the author of three books. His most recent, out this year, is called Caste Pride: Battles for Equality in Hindu India, and it provides an exhaustively researched overview of the legal and political history of caste in modern India, from the colonial era to the present. In this podcast, we discuss the layers and implications of the book, focusing in particular on the ugly manifestations of casteism in today’s India.

Hosted by Daevan Mangalmurti YC ’24, featuring Manoj Mitta and Sushant Singh.

India’s Complicated Struggle with Caste: A Conversation with Manoj Mitta

Sahana Ghosh is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the National University of Singapore. She graduated from Yale in 2018 with a PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. In this episode we discuss her newly-released book, A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security Across the India-Bangladesh Borderlands, taking into account the way the border and the making of borderlands intersect with economic, gendered, and political categories.
 
Hosted by Daevan Mangalmurti YC ’24, featuring Sahana Ghosh PhD ’18.

Politics and Realities of Modern India: A Conversation with Sushant Singh

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