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Episodes: 195
Frequency: Every two weeks
Rating: 4.9/5.0
Estimated listeners: 100 - 1,000
Gender skew: Neutral
Listener location: USA
Page updated: Nov 4, 2026 · How we check this data
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Ahmed Y. AlMaazmi - Assistant professor of history at New York University Abu Dhabi.
Mohammed Alsudairi - Lecturer in politics and international relations of the Arabic-speaking world at the Australian National University’s Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies.
Dhiren Swain - PhD candidate affiliated with the University of Melbourne and IIT Madras. His research focuses on urban policies and community politics in India and South Asia.
Helen Dewar - Historian of the Atlantic World and French colonization in North America, and professor of history at the Université de Montréal. She is the author of Disputing New France: Companies, Sovereignty a...
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Recent Guest Discussions
Pankhuri Agarwal - Migration, Anti-trafficking Interventions, Modern Slavery, Bureaucracy, And The Lived Experience Of Workers In India.
Gunja SenGupta - Slavery, Abolition, Empire, And Transnational Connections Between The United States And The Indian Ocean World.
Srirupa Roy - Indian Democracy, Populism, Political Outsiders, And The Relationship Between Democratic Politics And Authoritarianism.
Roy Bar Sadeh - Muslim Political Minorities, South Asian History, And The Movement Of Ideas And People Across The Indian Ocean.
Renisa Mawani - The Komagata Maru, Indian Migration, Maritime Law, And British Imperial Power.
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Episodes
Disaster Nationalism: Tsunami and Civil War in Sri Lanka with Vivian Y Choi (Duke UP, 2025)
October 26, 2026
In Disaster Nationalism: Tsunami and Civil War in Sri Lanka (Duke UP, 2025), Vivian Y. Choi examines how the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami fostered new forms of governance and militarization during Sri Lanka’s decades-long civil war that led to enduring forms of precarity and insecurity. Tracing the development of disaster management projects following the tsunami, Choi demonstrates how these projects rest on a logic that treats natural disasters and terrorism as inevitable risks in need of manag...
Sea of Treasures: A Cultural History of Ancient Indian Ocean Trade
October 22, 2026
After Caesar's assassination, the triumvirs drew up a kill list; one such target, a man named Lucius Plotius Plancus, fled to a villa near Naples and tried hiding behind a curtain. The soldiers found him anyway–thanks to his heavy perfume.Pliny the Elder, writing a century later, used the perfume to suggest the killing was justified. Historians have often taken that at face value, as proof that Rome despised Eastern luxuries. Jeremy Simmons reads it as a joke—Pliny was calling the man a walki...
Fictions of Freedom: Migration, Modern Slavery and Bureaucracy in India with Pankhuri Agarwal (Cambridge UP, 2026)
October 14, 2026
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 sex workers and daily-wage earning labourers through a multi-sited ethnography in India, this book opens up an examination of the rescue industry alongside migration and informality, and how the lived reality of the workers is crowded with...
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New Books in the Indian Ocean World typically books rising experts. Typical guest background: Scholars and researchers with subject expertise, commonly supported by a recent or established academic book on South Asian, Indian Ocean, or related history. Common among recent guests: Publication of a scholarly book with an academic press; University faculty or research appointment; Specialized expertise in history or a closely related field. Recent guests include Pankhuri Agarwal, Gunja SenGupta, and Srirupa Roy.
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