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About Samee Siddiqui
I am a PhD Candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill studying Asian History, focusing on Japanese-South Asian intellectual exchanges between 1905 and the Second World War. In particular, I explore South Asian anticolonial figures engaged in discussions surrounding religion, race, and empire.
Samee Siddiqui is a former journalist who is currently a PhD Candidate at the Department of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. You can find him on twitter @ssiddiqui83
NBN Episodes hosted by Samee:
May 5, 2024
Seeking Sakyamuni
Though fascinated with the land of their tradition’s birth, virtually no Japanese Buddhists visited the Indian subcontinent before the nineteenth cent…
November 8, 2022
Reading Medieval Ruins
The Japanese provincial city of Ichijōdani was destroyed in the civil wars of the late sixteenth century but never rebuilt. Archaeological excavations…
October 12, 2021
Theosophy across Boundaries
Theosophy across Boundaries: Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on a Modern Esoteric Movement (SUNY Press, 2020) brings a global history…
September 14, 2021
Unsettling Utopia
After India achieved independence from the British in 1947, there remained five scattered territories governed by the French imperial state. It was no…
July 28, 2021
The Origins of the British Empire in Asia, 1600–1750
This is an important, revisionist account of the origins of the British Empire in Asia in the early modern period. In The Origins of the British Empir…
May 28, 2021
A Revolutionary History of Interwar India
Kama Maclean's book A Revolutionary History of Interwar India: Violence, Image, Voice and Text (Oxford University Press, 2015) draws on new evidence t…
May 24, 2021
Teach-In on Sheikh Jarrah and Israel-Palestine
Today, I am introducing a recording of an event on Israel-Palestine organized by members of the history department at the University of North Carolina…
May 19, 2021
A Genealogy of Terrorism
Today I talked to Joseph McQuade about his book A Genealogy of Terrorism: Colonial Law and the Origins of an Idea (Cambridge University Press, 2020). …
April 27, 2021
Revolutionary Pasts
In this engaging and innovative history of the communist movement in colonial India, Ali Raza reveals the lives, geographies, and anti-colonial strugg…
April 22, 2021
Tropics of Savagery
Tropics of Savagery: The Culture of Japanese Empire in Comparative Frame (U California Press, 2010) is an incisive and provocative study of the figure…
April 8, 2021
(Dis)connected Empires
(Dis)connected Empires: Imperial Portugal, Sri Lankan Diplomacy, and the Making of a Habsburg Conquest in Asia (Oxford University Press, 2019) takes t…
March 17, 2021
Shimaji Mokurai and the Reconception of Religion and the Secular in Modern Japan
Religion is at the heart of such ongoing political debates in Japan as the constitutionality of official government visits to Yasukuni Shrine, yet the…
March 3, 2021
Slave in a Palanquin
For hundreds of years, the island of Sri Lanka was a crucial stopover for people and goods in the Indian Ocean. For the Dutch East India Company, it w…
February 16, 2021
The Politics and Poetics of Authenticity
What is the role of cultural authenticity in the making of nations? Much scholarly and popular commentary on nationalism dismisses authenticity as a r…
February 12, 2021
Embracing 'Asia' in China and Japan
Embracing ‘Asia’ in China and Japan: Asianism Discourse and the Contest for Hegemony (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) by Torsten Weber examines how Asianism…
January 6, 2021
The Loss of Hindustan
Did South Asia have a shared regional identity prior to the arrival of Europeans in the late fifteenth century? This is a subject of heated debate in …