About Shruti Jain

I am Shruti Jain, a doctoral student at SUNY Binghamton. I work on the Eighteenth-Century British Enlightenment, exploring the connections between racial and caste-ridden transatlantic worlds. I am the co-host and co-producer of the podcast "Immigrants Wake America", supported by Humanities New York in collaboration with the Tenement Museum, New York, and the American Civic Association.

NBN Episodes hosted by Shruti:

Jessica Patterson, "Religion, Enlightenment and Empire: British Interpretations of Hinduism in the Eighteenth Century"

July 19, 2025

Religion, Enlightenment and Empire

Jessica Patterson
Hosted by Shruti Jain

In the second half of the eighteenth century, several British East India Company servants published accounts of what they deemed to be the original an…

Pooja Rangan et al. eds., "Thinking with an Accent: Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice" (UC Press, 2023)

June 2, 2025

Thinking with an Accent

Pooja Rangan, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, Pavitra Sundar, and Akshya Saxena
Hosted by Shruti Jain

Everyone speaks with an accent, but what is an accent? Thinking with an Accent: Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice (UC Press, 2023) introduces …