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About Sanjukta Poddar

Sanjukta Poddar (she/her/hers) is Assistant Professor in Modern South Asian Studies at Leiden University.

NBN Episodes hosted by Sanjukta:

South Asian Studies April 30, 2023

Caste, Knowledge, and Power

Ways of Knowing in Twentieth Century Malabar

K. N. Sunandan

Hosted by Sanjukta Poddar
Caste, Knowledge, and Power: Ways of Knowing in Twentieth-Century Malabar (Cambridge UP, 2023) investigates the transformations of caste practices in twentieth century India and the role of knowledge in this transformation …
South Asian Studies March 24, 2023

Merchants of Virtue

Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia

Divya Cherian

Hosted by Sanjukta Poddar
Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia (U California Press, 2023) explores the question of what it meant to be Hindu in precolonial South Asia. Divya …
South Asian Studies September 12, 2022

Memoirs of a Dalit Communist

The Many Worlds of R.B. More

R. B. More and Satyendra More

Hosted by Sanjukta Poddar
R.B. More (1903–1972) was a leader in Babasaheb Ambedkar’s movement, a trade unionist and a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). More’s life, narrated in his words and …