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About Archit Guha

Archit Guha is a PhD researcher in the Duke University History Department.

NBN Episodes hosted by Archit:

South Asian Studies November 11, 2023

Toward a Free Economy

Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India

Aditya Balasubramanian

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In Toward a Free Economy: Swantantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India (Princeton University Press, 2023), Aditya Balasubramanian charts the birth and rise of a political ideology rooted in the …
Environmental Studies July 29, 2023

Engineering Vulnerability

In Pursuit of Climate Adaptation

Sarah E. Vaughn

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Sarah E. Vaughn’s Engineering Vulnerability: In Pursuit of Climate Adaptation (Duke UP, 2022) examines climate adaptation strategies that upend the neat divisions of linear temporality separate the past, present, and …
South Asian Studies April 11, 2023

Patching Development

Information Politics and Social Reform in India

Rajesh Veeraraghavan

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Rajesh Veeraraghavan’s Patching Development: Information Politics and Social Change in India (Oxford University Press, 2022) offers the first ethnographically grounded perspective on the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act …
South Asian Studies November 24, 2022

Threatening Dystopias

The Global Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh

Kasia Paprocki

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In Threatening Dystopias: The Global Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh (Cornell UP, 2021), Kasia Paprocki challenges two well-worn assumptions about climate change and its relationship with the political …