About Ujaan Ghosh

I am a graduate student at the Department of Art History at University of Wisconsin Madison. I am primarily interested in the colonial urban history of religious sites. I am also interested in the premodern literary history of India especially Sanskrit literary history and its interaction with Indian vernaculars. I head about NBN from a friend of mine and it seems to be such a great idea to bring scholars and grad students together.

Ujaan Ghosh is a graduate student at the Department of Art History at University of Wisconsin, Madison

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NBN Episodes hosted by Ujaan:

Monica Juneja and Sumathi Ramaswamy, "Motherland: Pushpamala N.'s 'Woman and Nation'" (Roli Books, 2022)

November 29, 2022

Motherland

Monica Juneja and Sumathi Ramaswamy
Hosted by Ujaan Ghosh

Monica Juneja and Sumathi Ramaswamy's Motherland: Pushpamala N.'s 'Woman and Nation' (Roli Books, 2022) examines Motherland, an important series of ph…

Vinayak Chaturvedi, "Hindutva and Violence: V. D. Savarkar and the Essentials of History" (SUNY Press, 2022)

August 31, 2022

Hindutva and Violence

Vinayak Chaturvedi
Hosted by Ujaan Ghosh

Hindutva and Violence: V. D. Savarkar and the Essentials of History (SUNY Press, 2022) explores the place of history in the political thought of Vinay…

Wendy Doniger, "After the War: The Last Books of the Mahabharata" (Oxford UP, 2022)

August 2, 2022

After the War

Wendy Doniger
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Wendy Doniger's After the War: The Last Books of the Mahabharata (Oxford UP, 2022) is a new translation of the final part of the Mahabharata, the grea…

Partha Chatterjee, "The Truths and Lies of Nationalism: As Narrated by Charvak" (SUNY Press, 2021)

April 11, 2022

The Truths and Lies of Nationalism

Partha Chatterjee
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Written in the voice of the mythical atheist, naysayer, and general all-purpose heretic of Indian philosophy, The Truths and Lies of Nationalism: As N…

Nandi Timmana, "Theft of a Tree" (Harvard UP, 2022)

March 7, 2022

Theft of a Tree

Nandi Timmana
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Legend has it that the sixteenth-century Telugu poet Nandi Timmana composed Theft of a Tree, or Pārijātāpaharaṇamu, which he based on a popular millen…

Caterina Guenzi, "Words of Destiny: Practicing Astrology in North India" (SUNY Press, 2021)

January 4, 2022

Words of Destiny

Caterina Guenzi
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Astrologers play an important role in Indian society, but there are very few studies on their social identity and professional practices. Based on ext…

Michael S. Dodson, "Bureaucracy, Belonging, and the City in North India: 1870-1930" (Routledge, 2020)

December 16, 2021

Bureaucracy, Belonging, and the City in North India

Michael S. Dodson
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Michael S. Dodson's Bureaucracy, Belonging, and the City in North India: 1870-1930 (Routledge, 2020) is a re-evaluation of modern urbanism and archite…