Dariyaa

Introduction: Welcome to another immersive episode of Dariyaa, your go-to podcast for deep dives into the captivating world of politics, culture, society, and policy. In this episode, Srushti and Omer, Hosts of Dariyaa are in conversation with, Dr. SherAli Tareen, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin and Marshall College, discussing his groundbreaking new book on the complex intra-...

Introduction: Welcome to another immersive episode of Dariyaa, your go-to podcast for deep dives into the captivating world of politics, culture, society, and policy. I In this episode with Dr. Hadia Mubarak, we discuss her book, 'Rebellious Wives, Neglectful Husbands: Controversies in Modern Quranic Commentaries'. In this book, she examines how colonialism, nationalism, and modernization...

Introduction: Welcome to another immersive episode of Dariyaa, your go-to podcast for deep dives into the captivating world of politics, culture, society, and policy. The anthropologist Samuli Schielke suggests that scholarship on the anthropology of Islam has put too much emphasis on Islam itself. He warns against the risk of essentialism, where one aspect of a Muslim's life, such as moments...

A war is never a mere conflict or struggle between two or more people or communities. It is larger than that. It starts way before it has actually began and ends way after its designated termination. The Israeli–Palestinian conflict is one of the world's most enduring conflicts, with the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip reaching 54 years of conflict. While a lot of schola...

In This Episode Of Unslant We Talk To Elizabeth Becker to discuss her book "You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War". She was a war correspondent for The Washington Post in Cambodia and a correspondent for The New York Times. She has also served as NPR’s senior editor for the foreign desk and has authored various other books covering aspects of war in Vietnam...

In today’s episode of Masala Trails, we explore the fusion based music platform Coke Studio- its inception, significance, and reception. Coke Studio has brought a social movement in the realm of music industry by fusing the global and the local. It also appeals deeply to the emotional sensibilities of the South Asian populace. Ms. Makhfi has explored various aspects of Coke Studio Pakistan in her...

In this episode, Dr. Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst delves into how Indian Muslims were portrayed, perceived, and essentialised after the Revolt of 1857. She argues that it is not enough to merely view the Great Rebellion through the lens of political or military history, as both its origins and impacts have been commonly explained in terms of religion. Dr. Morgenstein Fuerst explains how the Rebellion...

In this episode, we talk to Dr Uther Charlton-Stevens to discuss the themes of his book ‘Anglo India and the End of Empire’. Drawing from Uther’s expertise, the episode explores the complex identities of Anglo-Indians in colonial India, the impact of the political decisions of the British on their lives, their interaction with different phases of the nationalist movements and the social complexiti...

n this episode, we delve into the fascinating research of Dr. Divya, whose focus lies on the 18th-century Western Rajasthan. Join us as we explore the history of caste, its implications, and its significance in today's South Asia. Dr. Divya's research takes us on a journey through time, exploring the reconstitution of Hindu identity in relation to caste terms and practices of untouchabilit...

In this episode, we talk to Dr. Amira Mittermaier whose book, ‘Giving to God: Islamic Charity in Revolutionary Times’ is set against the backdrop of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution and Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi’s rise to power. The book draws upon Dr. Mittermaier’s ethnographic fieldwork in Egypt’s Cairo that oscillates between seemingly apolitical spaces of charity and highly politicized spaces of prote...

In this episode, Dr. Nadia Guessous invites us to think about feminism in non-teleological ways by drawing upon her genealogical and ethnographic research with a particular generation of Leftist feminists in Morocco, often known as bnat al yassar (daughters of the Left). She dissects what requires her interlocutors to reject a traditional way of life that, paradoxically, is also acknowledged by th...

In this conversation on her book, ‘The Politics of Women’s Rights in Iran’ , Dr. Arzoo Osanloo delves into the politicization of 'rights talk' and women’s subjectivities in post-revolutionary Iran. She talks about how following the 1979 revolution, Iran underwent a transformation into an Islamic republic, during which the country's leaders employed a renewed discourse on women's ri...

In this episode with Dr. Anand Vivek Taneja, we dissect how Indian Muslims are bringing their religious tradition in conversation with the everyday lived realities of marginalization. The episode deals with Islam as a 'discursive tradition' as argued by the anthropologist, Talal Asad to understand how the ethical lives of Indian Muslims have transformed in response to the political reality...

Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe by Dr Emily Greble show that Muslims were citizens of modern Europe from its beginning and, in the process, rethinks Europe itself. Muslims are neither newcomers nor outsiders in Europe. In the twentieth century, they have been central to the continent's political development and the evolution of its traditions of equality and law. From 1878 into the per...

The life and legacy of one of Mohammad's closest confidants and Islam's patron saint: Ali ibn Abi Talib is arguably the single most important spiritual and intellectual authority in Islam after the prophet Mohammad. Through his teachings and leadership as the fourth caliph, Ali nourished Islam. But Muslims are divided on whether he was supposed to be Mohammad's political successor-and...

Nile Green's Islam and the Army in Colonial India is one of those rare works that inspires both admiration and envy. It is a study that cannot fail to impress its readers with its erudition and innovation, especially when reconciling seemingly incompatible official accounts preserved in the colonial archive with subaltern memories preserved in oral traditions. This book is a study of the cultu...

In this episode of Guftagu, we've with us Dr Jessica Namakkal, author of the book, "Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India" In this episode of Guftagu, we've with us Dr Jessica Namakkal, author of the book, "Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India" Dr Jessica Namakkal is an assistant professor of the practice in international compa...

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In this episode of Guftagu, we've with us Dr Arvind Sharma, author of the book, "The Ruler's Gaze: A Study of British Rule Over India from a Saidian Perspective" Dr Arvind Sharma, longstanding professor of comparative religion at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, now takes up the Palestinian academic's groundbreaking ideas - originally put forth predominantly in a Middle...

In this episode of Guftagu, we've with us Dr Ghee Bowman, author of the book, "The Indian Contingent: The Forgotten Muslim Soldiers of Dunkirk". Dr Ghee Bowman is a historian, teacher and storyteller based in Exeter, England. He has also worked in the theatre, for NGOs and in education in the UK and around the world. This book, his very first, sprang from research he undertook to exp...

Riaz Dean is an Engineer by profession and an independent scholar. He is also a member of the NZ Society of Authors and the NZ Cartographical Society. As the title suggests, the book is about the extraordinary explorers, spies and mapmakers who explored the vast region’s of Asia against the backdrop of imperial ambitions of powerful players like Russia and Great Britain. This expedition was at the...

Dr Raghav Kishore is a historian of Modern South Asia and his research has primarily focused on the transformation of urban governance under colonial rule in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The (Un)governable City: Productive Failure in the Making of Colonial Delhi, 1857-1911, examines the production of urban space and its relation to colonial governance in Delhi in the aftermath of the Gr...

With his initial plans for an independent India in tatters, the desperate viceroy, Lord Mountbatten, turned to his senior-most Indian civil servant, Vappala Pangunni Menon—or VP—giving him a single night to devise an alternative, coherent and workable plan for independence. Menon met his stringent deadline, presenting the Menon Plan, which would change the map of the world forever. Menon was unarg...

Kate Imy is a historian of culture and war in British colonial Asia. Her first book, Faithful Fighters: Identity and Power in the British Indian Army , examines culture and anti-colonialism in the 20th century British Indian army. It won the NACBS Stansky prize and the Pacific Coast Branch Book Award of the American Historical Association. Her next project considers soldier and civilian experience...

In His groundbreaking study, SherAli Tareen presents the most comprehensive and theoretically engaged work to date on what is arguably the most long-running, complex, and contentious dispute in modern Islam: the Barelvī-Deobandī polemic. The Barelvī and Deobandī groups are two normative orientations/reform movements with beginnings in colonial South Asia. Almost two hundred years separate the begi...