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Converging Dialogues#447 - 5,000 Years of India: A Dialogue with Audrey TruschkeIn this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Audrey Truschke about the history of India. They discuss India as a subcontinent, the Indus Valley civilization, nomadic to cities and empires, trade, Indo-European language and Sanskrit, Vedas and Hinduism, and development of other religions. They also talk about Ashoka, the caste system, Muslims, Ghurids, Sikhism, the Mughal Empire, British Raj, India today and the future of India. Audrey Truschke is Professor of South Asian History at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey. She is the author of four books, including the most recent book, India: 5,000 Years of...
2025-09-291h 12
The Podcast BrowserAudrey Truschke, "India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent" (Princeton UP, 2025) Podcast: Asian Review of Books (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Audrey Truschke, "India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent" (Princeton UP, 2025)Pub date: 2025-08-14Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationI’m Nicholas Gordon, host of the Asian Review of Books podcast, done in partnership with the New Books Network. On this show, we interview authors writing in, around, and about the Asia-Pacific region.
How do you tell the story of India–not just the modern-day country, but the whole region of Sout...
2025-09-0644 min
Race and Rights PodcastHindutva in America: A Threat to Equality and Religious Pluralism with Audrey Truschke (Episode 40)In this episode, Sahar Aziz is in dicussion with Dr. Audrey Truschke and Dr. Dheepa Sundaram about the new groundbreaking report published by CSRR entitled Hindutva in America: A Threat to Equality and Religious Pluralism, which is available for download at csrr.rutgers.eduAudrey Truschke is a Professor of History and Director of Asian Studies at Rutgers University-Newark. She is the author of numerous books about India published by Columbia University Press, Stanford University Press and Princeton University Press. She just released her fourth book with entitled India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent....
2025-08-1953 min
The CosmopolitanAudrey Truschke, "India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent" (Princeton UP, 2025) Podcast: New Books in Indian Religions (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Audrey Truschke, "India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent" (Princeton UP, 2025)Pub date: 2025-07-22Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationMuch of world history is Indian history. Home today to one in four people, the subcontinent has long been densely populated and deeply connected to Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas through migration and trade. In this magisterial history, Audrey Truschke tells the fascinating story of the region historically known as India--which inc...
2025-08-181h 18
Scroll AddaWhy this Mughal historian fears coming to IndiaWhile completing her PhD in 2012 in New York, Audrey Truschke did not imagine that her work would one day rile up a section of Indians so much that she would feel physically unsafe. So much so that Truschke tells Shoaib Daniyal in this episode of Scroll Adda that she fears coming to India.Truschke's work on medieval Indian history has severely angered India's ruling Hindutva ideologues. She has written on the significant role Sanskrit played in Indo-Muslim culture, a 5,000-year history of the subcontinent and her most attacked book, a slim biography of the Mughal Emperor...
2025-08-1553 min
New Books in South Asian StudiesAudrey Truschke, "India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent" (Princeton UP, 2025)I’m Nicholas Gordon, host of the Asian Review of Books podcast, done in partnership with the New Books Network. On this show, we interview authors writing in, around, and about the Asia-Pacific region.
How do you tell the story of India–not just the modern-day country, but the whole region of South Asia, home to over two billion people?
Historian Audrey Truschke’s newest book, India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent (Princeton UP, 2025), starts at the very beginning: the rise of the Indus Valley Civilization, of which we still know frustratingly little. Her book cov...
2025-08-1444 min
New Books in the Indian Ocean WorldAudrey Truschke, "India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent" (Princeton UP, 2025)I’m Nicholas Gordon, host of the Asian Review of Books podcast, done in partnership with the New Books Network. On this show, we interview authors writing in, around, and about the Asia-Pacific region.
How do you tell the story of India–not just the modern-day country, but the whole region of South Asia, home to over two billion people?
Historian Audrey Truschke’s newest book, India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent (Princeton UP, 2025), starts at the very beginning: the rise of the Indus Valley Civilization, of which we still know frustratingly little. Her book cov...
2025-08-1444 min
Asian Review of BooksAudrey Truschke, "India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent" (Princeton UP, 2025)I’m Nicholas Gordon, host of the Asian Review of Books podcast, done in partnership with the New Books Network. On this show, we interview authors writing in, around, and about the Asia-Pacific region.
How do you tell the story of India–not just the modern-day country, but the whole region of South Asia, home to over two billion people?
Historian Audrey Truschke’s newest book, India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent (Princeton UP, 2025), starts at the very beginning: the rise of the Indus Valley Civilization, of which we still know frustratingly little. Her book cov...
2025-08-1444 min
Princeton UP Ideas PodcastAudrey Truschke, "India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent" (Princeton UP, 2025)I’m Nicholas Gordon, host of the Asian Review of Books podcast, done in partnership with the New Books Network. On this show, we interview authors writing in, around, and about the Asia-Pacific region.
How do you tell the story of India–not just the modern-day country, but the whole region of South Asia, home to over two billion people?
Historian Audrey Truschke’s newest book, India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent (Princeton UP, 2025), starts at the very beginning: the rise of the Indus Valley Civilization, of which we still know frustratingly little. Her book cov...
2025-08-1444 min
New Books in Ancient HistoryAudrey Truschke, "India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent" (Princeton UP, 2025)I’m Nicholas Gordon, host of the Asian Review of Books podcast, done in partnership with the New Books Network. On this show, we interview authors writing in, around, and about the Asia-Pacific region.
How do you tell the story of India–not just the modern-day country, but the whole region of South Asia, home to over two billion people?
Historian Audrey Truschke’s newest book, India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent (Princeton UP, 2025), starts at the very beginning: the rise of the Indus Valley Civilization, of which we still know frustratingly little. Her book cov...
2025-08-1444 min
New Books in HistoryAudrey Truschke, "India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent" (Princeton UP, 2025)Much of world history is Indian history. Home today to one in four people, the subcontinent has long been densely populated and deeply connected to Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas through migration and trade. In this magisterial history, Audrey Truschke tells the fascinating story of the region historically known as India--which includes today's India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and parts of Afghanistan--and the people who have lived there.
A sweeping account of five millennia, from the dawn of the Indus Valley Civilization to the twenty-first century, this engaging and richly textured narrative chronicles the most important political, social...
2025-07-261h 18
NBN Book of the DayAudrey Truschke, "India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent" (Princeton UP, 2025)Much of world history is Indian history. Home today to one in four people, the subcontinent has long been densely populated and deeply connected to Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas through migration and trade. In this magisterial history, Audrey Truschke tells the fascinating story of the region historically known as India--which includes today's India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and parts of Afghanistan--and the people who have lived there.
A sweeping account of five millennia, from the dawn of the Indus Valley Civilization to the twenty-first century, this engaging and richly textured narrative chronicles the most important political, social...
2025-07-221h 20Princeton UP Ideas PodcastAudrey Truschke, "India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent" (Princeton UP, 2025)Much of world history is Indian history. Home today to one in four people, the subcontinent has long been densely populated and deeply connected to Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas through migration and trade. In this magisterial history, Audrey Truschke tells the fascinating story of the region historically known as India--which includes today's India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and parts of Afghanistan--and the people who have lived there.
A sweeping account of five millennia, from the dawn of the Indus Valley Civilization to the twenty-first century, this engaging and richly textured narrative chronicles the most important political, social...
2025-07-221h 18New Books in South Asian StudiesAudrey Truschke, "India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent" (Princeton UP, 2025)Much of world history is Indian history. Home today to one in four people, the subcontinent has long been densely populated and deeply connected to Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas through migration and trade. In this magisterial history, Audrey Truschke tells the fascinating story of the region historically known as India--which includes today's India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and parts of Afghanistan--and the people who have lived there.
A sweeping account of five millennia, from the dawn of the Indus Valley Civilization to the twenty-first century, this engaging and richly textured narrative chronicles the most important political, social...
2025-07-221h 20
New Books in Indian ReligionsAudrey Truschke, "India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent" (Princeton UP, 2025)Much of world history is Indian history. Home today to one in four people, the subcontinent has long been densely populated and deeply connected to Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas through migration and trade. In this magisterial history, Audrey Truschke tells the fascinating story of the region historically known as India--which includes today's India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and parts of Afghanistan--and the people who have lived there.
A sweeping account of five millennia, from the dawn of the Indus Valley Civilization to the twenty-first century, this engaging and richly textured narrative chronicles the most important political, social...
2025-07-221h 18New Books in Ancient HistoryAudrey Truschke, "India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent" (Princeton UP, 2025)Much of world history is Indian history. Home today to one in four people, the subcontinent has long been densely populated and deeply connected to Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas through migration and trade. In this magisterial history, Audrey Truschke tells the fascinating story of the region historically known as India--which includes today's India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and parts of Afghanistan--and the people who have lived there.
A sweeping account of five millennia, from the dawn of the Indus Valley Civilization to the twenty-first century, this engaging and richly textured narrative chronicles the most important political, social...
2025-07-221h 18
Access AsiaHistorian retraces 5,000 years of Indian historyOn Access Asia this week, we speak to historian Audrey Truschke, whose new book covers 5,000 years of history on the Subcontinent. She tells us how she remains committed to historical truth, saying: "I will not be swayed by modern politics, modern pressures, no matter how extreme they are." We also cover how Afghans have been left in limbo, with the latest deportation drive from Iran underway.
2025-07-1111 min
Express ConversationsHistorian Audrey Truschke Breaks Down India Through Lens of MarginalisedAudrey Truschke discusses her book on 5000 years of South Asian history, starting with the Indus Valley Civilization around 2600 BCE. She explains the choice of 5000 years, including a brief account of early human migration 120,000 years ago. Truschke emphasizes the importance of diverse voices, particularly women and oppressed castes, in her narrative. She critiques political appropriations of the Indus civilization and highlights the book's non-nationalist approach, covering historical connections, cultural exports, and the evolution of Hindu nationalism. She was in conversation with The Indian Express’ Adrija Roy Chowdhury.Edited and Mixed by Suresh Pawar
2025-06-2718 min
AAUP PresentsAcademic Freedom: Thinking TransnationallyThis episode of our special series in partnership with the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom zooms out from the “Trump versus Harvard” headlines to situate attacks on US higher education institutions in a transnational context. We ask an interdisciplinary panel of scholars studying different parts of the world to help us set aside American exceptionalist frameworks and understand what is happening in the US in broader geographical, historical, and political contexts. Our guests: Audrey Truschke is Professor of South Asian History at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey. For the last three years...
2025-06-1847 min
Press Play On This Ground-Breaking Full Audiobook And Feel The Difference.India by Audrey TruschkePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/127636to listen full audiobooks.
Title: India
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Length: 24 hrs and 4 mins
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Much of world history is Indian history. Home today to one in four people, the subcontinent has long been densely populated and deeply connected to Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas through migration and trade. In this magisterial history, Audrey Truschke tells the fascinating story of the region historically known as India--which includes today's India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and parts of Afghanistan—and the people wh...
2025-06-0312h 04Race and Rights PodcastGlobal Islamophobia and the Rise of Populism with Audrey Truschke and Ivan Kalmar (Episode 35)Dr. Audrey Truschke and Professor Ivan Kalmar analyze the alarming global surge in Islamophobic violence and discriminatory policies, particularly in Eastern Europe and South Asia. Our guests explore how economic and political insecurities have fueled dangerous scapegoating of Muslim citizens and refugees, transforming vulnerable religious minorities into targets of state-sanctioned persecution. This thought-provoking episode examines the human cost of populist rhetoric and offers critical insights into one of today's most pressing human rights issues: the systematic marginalization of Muslim communities across national borders. Listen to the conversation on the intersection of religious identity, nationalism, and th...
2025-06-0348 min
Bind Pack of Full Audiobooks in Self Development, Health & WellnessIndia: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent - Audrey TruschkeListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://epod.spaceTitle: India: 5,000 Years of History on the SubcontinentAuthor: Audrey TruschkeNarrator: Audrey TruschkeFormat: UnabridgedLength: 24:04:14Language: EnglishRelease date: 06-03-2025Publisher: Recorded BooksGenres: History, AsiaSummary:Much of world history is Indian history. Home today to one in four people, the subcontinent has long been densely populated and deeply connected to Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas through migration and trade. In this magisterial history, Audrey Truschke tells the fascinating...
2025-06-0312h 04
Turning TidesTurning Tides: The Mughal Empire: Tears of Blood, 1708 - 1858: Episode 3Turning Tides: The Mughal Empire will discuss the rise and fall of the Mughals in the Indian subcontinent. The third and final episode, Tears of Blood, will cover the period from 1708 to 1858, in which the Mughal Empire steadily declined before completely capitulating during the First War of Indian Independence.If you'd like to donate or sponsor the podcast, our PayPal is @TurningTidesPodcast1, or you can donate to us through our Buy Me a Coffee link: buymeacoffee.com/theturningtidespodcast. Thank you for your support!Produced by Melissa Marie Brown and Joseph Pascone...
2024-07-3056 min
Yeah Nah Pasaran!Dr Audrey Truschke on HindutvaThis week we have a chat with Dr Audrey Truschke, a historian of South Asian history, about Hindutva and harrassment.
2024-03-0700 min
Rajiv Malhotra's Podcast\'Ten Heads of Ravana\' exposes Audrey TruschkeSubhodeep Mukhopadhyay and Manogna Sastry explicate the key themes of Audrey Truschke's work in the book 'Ten Heads of Ravana.' research. Truschke’s positions on Hinduism and Hindutva, her whitewashing of the temple destructions that took place under Aurangzeb’s rule, her blatant misrepresentations of incidents from the Rāmāyaṇa through mistranslations and other important aspects are studied through a careful analysis of her writings. Mukhopadhyay and Sastry show how Truschke’s work is riddled with poor data and sloppy
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The Ba...
2023-11-2636 minRajiv Malhotra's Podcast\'Ten Heads of Ravana\' exposes Audrey TruschkeSubhodeep Mukhopadhyay and Manogna Sastry explicate the key themes of Audrey Truschke's work in the book 'Ten Heads of Ravana.' research. Truschke’s positions on Hinduism and Hindutva, her whitewashing of the temple destructions that took place under Aurangzeb’s rule, her blatant misrepresentations of incidents from the Rāmāyaṇa through mistranslations and other important aspects are studied through a careful analysis of her writings. Mukhopadhyay and Sastry show how Truschke’s work is riddled with poor data and sloppy
Snakes in the Ganga - http://www.snakesintheganga.com
Varna Jati Caste - http://www.varnajaticaste.com
The Ba...
2023-11-2636 min
Brown History PodcastEP 14: Aurangzeb With Dr. Audrey TruschkeWe sit with Dr. Audrey Truschke, author of 'Aurangzeb: The Life and Legacy of India’s Most Controversial King' and discuss the sixth Mughal emperor Aurangzeb.Get the book: https://amzn.to/46ypXMIVisit our Shop: https://shopbrownhistory.com/Subscribe to our newsletter: https://brownhistory.substack.com/Become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/brownhistoryBooks covered on the podcast so far: https://amzn.to/42TH768 Get full access to Brown History at brownhistory.substack.com/subscribe
2023-10-0146 min
Ballad of BooksEp. 19 - Bibliophile Diaries - Oct 1, 2023Books discussed in this episode:
A Life in Stitches: Knitting My Way through Love, Loss, and Laughter by Rachael Herron
Weirdest War Two: Extraordinary Tales and Unbelievable Facts from the Second World War by M J Trow
The Geography of India: Sacred and Historic Places by Kenneth Pletcher
Be The Dog: How To Start (And More Importantly) Finish Your Novel by Brian Yansky
Bizarre, Creepy Hoaxes by Kelly Barnhill
Khushwant Singh's Big Book of Malice by Khushwant Singh
Aurangzeb: The Man and the Myth by Audrey Truschke
Buddhism 101: From Karma to the Four Noble Truths, Your Guide to...
2023-09-3025 min
Shadow Warrior by Rajeev SrinivasanEp. 113: Udayanidhi Stalin has called for genocide and that must be taken seriously* It’s illegal. There is a constitutional right to worship. Even more so there is a right to equality to all citizens. * It’s immoral and criminal. To call for genocide. This is not free speech. This is hate speech* This is pure propaganda* Demonizing the enemy has a long history* Spaniards called aztecs cannibals and vice versa, but white people got to write the history books* Yellow peril* Nazis called jews vermin* Hutus in rwanda called tutsis cockroaches, and then genocide them* N s r...
2023-09-0616 min
ConspiritualityDeep Cut: What Will Yoga Do to Our Children?Deep Cut pulls from our bonus episode archive to unearth previous ideas that remain relevant today.News from Alabama: after a 23-year ban on yoga in schools, generated by a Republican moral panic, Governor Kay Ivey signs a bill that lets kids do yoga again, but with some restrictions:"All instruction in yoga shall be limited exclusively to poses, exercises, and stretching techniques. All poses shall be limited exclusively to sitting, standing, reclining, twisting, and balancing. All poses, exercises, and stretching techniques shall have exclusively English descriptive names. Chanting, mantras, mudras, use of mandalas, induction...
2023-08-191h 14
Rajiv Malhotra's PodcastAnand Narasimhan, CNN News18, in conversation with the authors of Ten Heads of RavanaTen Heads of Ravana\' by the Infinity Foundation India team was released in Feb 2023. The book is a collection of essays on the work of famous contemporary Hinduphobic scholars such as Sheldon Pollock, Romila Thapar, Wendy Doniger, Shashi Tharoor, Devdutt Pattanaik, Ramachandra Guha, Kancha Ilaiah, Michael Witzel, Irfan Habib, & Audrey Truschke. The authors - Manogna Sastry, Subhodeep Mukhopadhyay, Divya Reddy, Anurag Sharma, TN Sudarshan, Dr. HR Meera, Dr. Kannan & Dr. Sharda Narayanan factually deconstruct the numerous errors in their work.
Snakes in the Ganga - http://www.snakesintheganga.com
Varna Jati Caste - http://www.varnajaticaste.com
The Battle...
2023-04-1720 minRajiv Malhotra's PodcastAnand Narasimhan, CNN News18, in conversation with the authors of Ten Heads of RavanaTen Heads of Ravana\' by the Infinity Foundation India team was released in Feb 2023. The book is a collection of essays on the work of famous contemporary Hinduphobic scholars such as Sheldon Pollock, Romila Thapar, Wendy Doniger, Shashi Tharoor, Devdutt Pattanaik, Ramachandra Guha, Kancha Ilaiah, Michael Witzel, Irfan Habib, & Audrey Truschke. The authors - Manogna Sastry, Subhodeep Mukhopadhyay, Divya Reddy, Anurag Sharma, TN Sudarshan, Dr. HR Meera, Dr. Kannan & Dr. Sharda Narayanan factually deconstruct the numerous errors in their work.
Snakes in the Ganga - http://www.snakesintheganga.com
Varna Jati Caste - http://www.varnajaticaste.com
The Battle...
2023-04-1720 min
New Books in Early Modern HistoryAudrey Truschke, "The Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of Indo-Muslim Rule" (Columbia UP, 2021)In her layered and theoretically astute new book The Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of Indo-Muslim Rule (Columbia UP, 2021), Audrey Truschke documents and analyzes a range of Sanskrit texts in premodern India invested in narrating and making sense of Indo-Persian political rule and governance. In a study at once ambitious and razor sharp in execution, Truschke demonstrates the importance of taking seriously the enterprise of Sanskrit historical writing in the premodern period. Historically and geographically expansive, Truschke takes her readers through a delightful tour of Sanskrit texts from a variety of genres to show their incongruity with modern conceptions of...
2023-03-101h 04
New Books in Medieval HistoryAudrey Truschke, "The Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of Indo-Muslim Rule" (Columbia UP, 2021)In her layered and theoretically astute new book The Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of Indo-Muslim Rule (Columbia UP, 2021), Audrey Truschke documents and analyzes a range of Sanskrit texts in premodern India invested in narrating and making sense of Indo-Persian political rule and governance. In a study at once ambitious and razor sharp in execution, Truschke demonstrates the importance of taking seriously the enterprise of Sanskrit historical writing in the premodern period. Historically and geographically expansive, Truschke takes her readers through a delightful tour of Sanskrit texts from a variety of genres to show their incongruity with modern conceptions of...
2023-03-101h 00
New Books in Islamic StudiesAudrey Truschke, "The Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of Indo-Muslim Rule" (Columbia UP, 2021)In her layered and theoretically astute new book The Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of Indo-Muslim Rule (Columbia UP, 2021), Audrey Truschke documents and analyzes a range of Sanskrit texts in premodern India invested in narrating and making sense of Indo-Persian political rule and governance. In a study at once ambitious and razor sharp in execution, Truschke demonstrates the importance of taking seriously the enterprise of Sanskrit historical writing in the premodern period. Historically and geographically expansive, Truschke takes her readers through a delightful tour of Sanskrit texts from a variety of genres to show their incongruity with modern conceptions of...
2023-03-101h 03New Books in South Asian StudiesAudrey Truschke, "The Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of Indo-Muslim Rule" (Columbia UP, 2021)In her layered and theoretically astute new book The Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of Indo-Muslim Rule (Columbia UP, 2021), Audrey Truschke documents and analyzes a range of Sanskrit texts in premodern India invested in narrating and making sense of Indo-Persian political rule and governance. In a study at once ambitious and razor sharp in execution, Truschke demonstrates the importance of taking seriously the enterprise of Sanskrit historical writing in the premodern period. Historically and geographically expansive, Truschke takes her readers through a delightful tour of Sanskrit texts from a variety of genres to show their incongruity with modern conceptions of...
2023-03-101h 04
New Books in Iranian StudiesAudrey Truschke, "The Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of Indo-Muslim Rule" (Columbia UP, 2021)In her layered and theoretically astute new book The Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of Indo-Muslim Rule (Columbia UP, 2021), Audrey Truschke documents and analyzes a range of Sanskrit texts in premodern India invested in narrating and making sense of Indo-Persian political rule and governance. In a study at once ambitious and razor sharp in execution, Truschke demonstrates the importance of taking seriously the enterprise of Sanskrit historical writing in the premodern period. Historically and geographically expansive, Truschke takes her readers through a delightful tour of Sanskrit texts from a variety of genres to show their incongruity with modern conceptions of...
2023-03-101h 00New Books in Indian ReligionsAudrey Truschke, "The Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of Indo-Muslim Rule" (Columbia UP, 2021)In her layered and theoretically astute new book The Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of Indo-Muslim Rule (Columbia UP, 2021), Audrey Truschke documents and analyzes a range of Sanskrit texts in premodern India invested in narrating and making sense of Indo-Persian political rule and governance. In a study at once ambitious and razor sharp in execution, Truschke demonstrates the importance of taking seriously the enterprise of Sanskrit historical writing in the premodern period. Historically and geographically expansive, Truschke takes her readers through a delightful tour of Sanskrit texts from a variety of genres to show their incongruity with modern conceptions of...
2023-03-101h 00
Off the Page: A Columbia University Press PodcastAudrey Truschke, "The Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of Indo-Muslim Rule" (Columbia UP, 2021)In her layered and theoretically astute new book The Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of Indo-Muslim Rule (Columbia UP, 2021), Audrey Truschke documents and analyzes a range of Sanskrit texts in premodern India invested in narrating and making sense of Indo-Persian political rule and governance. In a study at once ambitious and razor sharp in execution, Truschke demonstrates the importance of taking seriously the enterprise of Sanskrit historical writing in the premodern period. Historically and geographically expansive, Truschke takes her readers through a delightful tour of Sanskrit texts from a variety of genres to show their incongruity with modern conceptions of...
2023-03-101h 00
The Sikh RenaissanceImmortal Warrior-Defending The Martyrdom of Guru Tegh BahadurProfessor Audrey Truschke, the Hindu Right and Islamists-these three seemingly disparate entities are united in denying and disparaging the martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahadur the ninth Sikh Guru. In this episode not only do we answer their allegation that no contemporary source exists to evince this martyrdom, but we also cite contemporary Persian sources written by those nearest to Aurangzeb substantiating the lead-up to the event and its aftermath. We are joined in this episode by eminent Sikh historian and researcher S. Inderjeet Singh (Afghan Hindus And Sikhs) who rediscovered these sources in the late 2010s.
2022-11-191h 39
The Sikh RenaissanceImmortal Warrior-Defending The Martyrdom of Guru Tegh BahadurProfessor Audrey Truschke, the Hindu Right and Islamists-these three seemingly disparate entities are united in denying and disparaging the martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahadur the ninth Sikh Guru. In this episode not only do we answer their allegation that no contemporary source exists to evince this martyrdom, but we also cite contemporary Persian sources written by those nearest to Aurangzeb substantiating the lead-up to the event and its aftermath. We are joined in this episode by eminent Sikh historian and researcher S. Inderjeet Singh (Afghan Hindus And Sikhs) who rediscovered these sources in the late 2010s.
2022-11-191h 39
The Wire TalksHindutva RW Trolls feat. Dr. Audrey TruschkeTrolling on social media is serious and menacing problem which has gone far beyond just heckling and what-about-ry. Trolls now threaten violence and worse. Women, especially activists, journalists, academics and celebrities routinely face threats to them and even their family.On this episode, Sidharth Bhatia is joined by Dr. Audrey Truschke, historian of South Asia and Associate Professor at Rutgers University, who has been attacked ceaselessly for her allegedly 'anti-Hindu' views. She writes about Hindu-Muslim relations during the Mughal Empire and her book on Aurangzeb, have made her a constant target of trolls.Sidharth and...
2021-09-1438 min
Sensing the SacredSanskrit, Indo-Muslim History, and Twitter: Audrey TruschkeSanskrit is known as the classical language of India, especially Hindu traditions. But over its 3000 year history, Sanskrit was widely used in other Indian religions, as well. And not only religions. Sanskrit was a lingua franca in Early India—a window onto cosmopolitain, literary, intellectual, and political cultures of the past. On this episode, Finnian talks with Audrey Truschke, a historian of South Asia at Rutgers University, who has made her name studying Sanskrit texts and Islamic power on the subcontinent. Her most recent book, “The Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of Indo-Muslim Rule” (Columbia UP), presents a ”history of Sansk...
2021-07-2857 min
Trending Globally: Politics and PolicyHindu Nationalism, Contested Histories, and Challenging the Fascism BlueprintAudrey Truschke is a scholar who has gotten in some very hot water lately. She’s regularly harassed on Twitter, she’s facing a lawsuit, and she’s received death threats. ‘What’s she an expert in?’ you might ask. Public health? Election law? Critical Race Theory? Nope.Ancient Sanskrit. On this episode we’re sharing part of a new podcast from Watson. It’s called ‘Sensing the Sacred’ and it’s hosted by Finnian Gerety, a visiting assistant professor of religious studies and contemplative studies at Watson’s Center for Contemporary South Asia.Finnian and Sarah talk...
2021-07-2721 min
Stars, Stripes, and Sanatanis: Young Hindu Voices of AmericaHindus on Rutgers CampusIn today’s podcast episode, we shed light on recent events that transpired at Rutgers with regards to Professor Audrey Truschke. With an interview of a current Rutgers student, we seek to broadcast an authentic perspective and understand how academia can spread misinformation. The views expressed in the podcast are the views of the individual speakers and do not represent the official views of HSC.
2021-04-0734 min
Attention Pliss! with Arnab Ray#118 - AICTE, Audrey Truschke, Oprah, and moreArnab talks about his first impressions on Republic Bangla, the economics of running a Bengali channel, the AICTE's recent decision to exempt math and physics are mandatory subjects for engineering (~17 min), the recent news about Dr. Truschke (~37 min), the interview of Meghan Markel by Oprah (~58 min), and Mithunda (~1hr 12)in this action-packed episode.
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2021-03-141h 21
The Sham Sharma ShowHindus Attacked On Western Campuses | SSS PodcastSham, Kushal and Abhijit discuss the Oxford-Rashmi Samant issue, and the harassment that she has face simply for being Hindu. They also discuss how Rutgers University completely disregarded the sentiments of Hindu students under the excuse of free speech, despite their employee Audrey Truschke constantly denigrating and abusing Hinduism. One sincerely wonders if Rutgers would have defended free speech so much is a professor had abused and denigrated Islam this way. We discuss what Hindus on campus can do. ------------------------------------ Follow Sham: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shamsharmashow/ Twitter: https://twitter...
2021-03-121h 43
The Hindu On BooksAudrey Truschke on The Language of History and Sanskrit histories of Indo-Muslim ruleIn this edition of The Hindu on Books Podcast, we talk to Audrey Truschke about her new book, The Language of History, in which she explains why Sanskrit histories of Indo-Muslim rule, ought to be acknowledged as crucial to the study of Indo-Persian political history. Truschke, who wrote a biography of the Mughal king Aurangzeb in 2017 for which she received both kudos and brickbats, takes us through cultural encounters through the ages, the importance of history, and her new project.Host: Sudipta Dutta, Senior Deputy Editor, The HinduWant to get more from The Hindu...
2021-01-2927 min
Brown History PodcastAurangzeb with Dr. Audrey TruschkeWe sit with Dr. Audrey Truschke, author of 'Aurangzeb: The Life and Legacy of India's Most Controversial King' and discuss the sixth Mughal emperor Aurangzeb. Get the book: https://amzn.to/3ua0idn To support or to shop: www.shopbrownhistory.com
2021-01-1246 min
Zuber SachoraA critical view on AurangzebSpeaker discusses Emperor Aurangzeb primarily a Muslim perspective on the basis of biography written by Audrey Truschke
2020-11-0834 min
The Sham Sharma ShowAudrey Truschke: "Don't Criticize Me, I'm a Woman and An Expert!"Sham and Kushal are back to discuss Audrey Truschke's answer to questions about her research. She responded by saying that she is being attacked because she's a woman and that she is an expert because she has a Ph.D. and a book. We also discuss the Supreme Court's Censorship of Sudarshan TV and why it's very dangerous. #aurangzeb #sudarshantv -------------------------------------------------- Support The Sham Sharma Show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=13603950 ---------------------------------------------------- Follow Sham: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shamsharmashow/ Twitter: https://twitter.com...
2020-09-181h 16
COVIDCallsEP #120 - 9.4.2020 Teaching in/with COVID-19Today we will talk about the challenges of teaching and learning about COVID-19 in higher education with Audrey Truschke (trushkey), Theresa MacPhail, and Maddy Larkin.
Maddy Larkin is a junior Custom Design Major student at Drexel University. For her major, she combines studies of biology, psychology, criminology, and public health to study Humanistic Health. She is also a theatre minor and is involved in the Pennoni Honors College as a member and student mentor.
Theresa MacPhail is a medical anthropologist at Stevens Institute of Technology and the author of The Viral Network: A Pathography of th...
2020-09-051h 17New Books in Islamic StudiesAudrey Truschke, “Aurangzeb: The Life and Legacy of India's Most Controversial King” (Stanford UP, 2017)For many, the history of the Mughal empire looms heavy over contemporary South Asian social imaginaries. The lightning rod figure within modern day myths about the past is the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb (1618-1707). Some think of him as a violent Muslim fanatic who went out of his way to oppress Hindus and destroy their temples. Others consider his nearly 50-year reign (1658–1707) one of the most consequential for pre-modern South Asian history. Audrey Truschke, Associate Professor of South Asian History at Rutgers University–Newark, wanted to probe the pre-modern archive in order to understand the historical life and legacy of Aura...
2020-09-041h 06
Journey Through This Immersive Full Audiobook — Perfect On The Go.Aurangzeb: The Man and the Myth by Audrey TrushckePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/127679to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Aurangzeb: The Man and the Myth
Author: Audrey Trushcke
Narrator: Dilshad Khurana
Format: mp3
Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
Release date: 03-24-20
Ratings: Not rated yet
Genres: India
Publisher's Summary:
Aurangzeb Alamgir (r. 1658-1707), the sixth Mughal emperor, is widely reviled in India today. Hindu hater, murderer, and religious zealot are just a handful of the modern caricatures of this maligned ruler. While many continue to accept the storyline peddled by colonial-era thinkers - that Aurangzeb, a Muslim, was a Hindu-loathing bigot - there is an untold side to...
2020-03-243h 50
Take Me To CoffeeThe Mughal Empire: Audrey TruschkeAudrey Truschke has created a name for herself on Twitter but it's probably not for anything you'd guess. She's an academic and author whose specialty is Muslim & Hindu conflict, The Mughal Empire and Sanksrit. We get down and dirty to learn about the role of academics in censorship, why people are so upset about her research and who was a better cheater at games as a kid, Audrey or Jess?
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Who doesn’t want free advice from people that are wildly successful and probably more good looking than we are? In most careers, mentorship is a built-in par...
2019-09-261h 12
The Pivot by Globely NewsNarendra Modi’s Dark Vision of a New IndiaHost Arif Rafiq speaks with journalist Rana Ayyub and Professor Audrey Truschke on the danger Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision of a "New India" poses to Muslims and other minorities, free speech, and academic inquiry in India.
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2019-05-2251 min
When Greeks Flew KitesFake HistoryThis month, Sarah Dunant explores the history of fake history.In March this year, the Christchurch attacker invoked a twisted interpretation of medieval history and the crusades to justify his terrorist attack on a mosque. In this programme, Dr Levi Roach contextualises the Battle of Tours, the historical event invoked by the Christchurch attacker, and explains how groups on the extremes, especially in the digital realm, are able to misuse and misrepresent history for their ideological ends. Fake history and contested narratives are nothing new. Since history has been recorded, the past has been massaged...
2019-05-0727 min
??? ??? ????The Great Mughal Debate: What did the Mughals do for Us?Audrey Truschke, Parvati Sharma, and Rana Safvi in conversation with Ira Mukhoty. This episode is a live session from day 3 of #ZEEJLF2019.
2019-03-1150 min
Jaipur BytesThe Great Mughal Debate: What did the Mughals do for Us?Audrey Truschke, Parvati Sharma, and Rana Safvi in conversation with Ira Mukhoty. This episode is a live session from day 3 of #ZEEJLF2019.
2019-03-1150 minWorld History Class with Mr. LutzEpisode 23 – Early Modern Islamic EmpiresThis episode’s Key Concepts include:
4.1.IV – The increase in interactions between newly connected hemispheres and intensification of connections within hemispheres expanded the spread and reform of existing religions and contributed to both religious conflicts and the creation of syncretic belief systems and practices. (The intensification of Sunni-Shi’a split by the political rivalries between the Ottoman and the Safavid empires. The development of Sikhism in the context of interactions between Hinduism and Islam.)
4.1.VII – As merchants’ profits increased and governments collected more taxes, funding for the visual and performing arts, even for popular audiences, increased...
2019-01-0800 min
World History Class with Mr. LutzEpisode 23 – Early Modern Islamic EmpiresToday we will tackle the Empires of the Ottomans, Safavids, and the Mughals by comparing how they were formed, what their societies looked like, and what led to their decline or demise.
Audrey Truschke’s article on Aurangzeb
https://aeon.co/essays/the-great-aurangzeb-is-everybodys-least-favourite-mughal
Ottoman Miniature of the Suleymaniye Mosque (circa 1580s)
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%BCleymaniye_Mosque#/media/File:Sueleymaniye_painting_by_Osman.jpg
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2019-01-0800 min
הפודקאסט של היסטוריה גדולה בקטנה#5 איילת קוטלר מקריאה לקיסר המוגולי סיפורים בפרסיתאיילת קוטלר היא דוקטורנטית מהחוג ללימודי תרבויות דרום אסיה באוניברסיטת שיקגו. איילת מתמקדת במחקרה במפעלי התרגום הגדולים לפרסית שהתקיימו בצפון הודו הפרה-מודרנית תחת האימפריה המוגולית, ועל מערכות היחסים שבין התרבויות ההודיות והפרסיות באזור.
דיברנו איתה על:
01:04 – מה זה בעצם מוגול?
09:00 – המוגולי הראשון
14:50 – האימפריה שכמעט קרסה שניה אחרי שקמה
18:30 – הקיסר אכבר הגדול
24:10 – איך שולטים על איזור עם אינספור שפות, עמים ותרבויות?
31:00 – מפעל התרגום המוגולי לפרסית
33:42 – סובלנות דתית וסינקרטיזם
40:15 – שאה ג'האן וארבעת בניו
48:45 – הטאג' מהאל
51:20 – השקיעה המוגולית
55:30 – עודד מסגביר על המרד ההודי
57:20 – צאצאיהם של המוגולים
58:00 – הודו המודרנית והמוגולים
1:05:40 – תחום המחקר של איילת
1:07:00 – שאלות קוראים
ספרים מומלצים להמשך עיון:
Catherine Asher and Cynthia Talbot – India Before Europe
Munis Faruqui - The Princes of the Mughal Empire, 1504–1719
Audrey Truschke - Aurangzeb: The Life and Legacy of India's Most Controversial King
היסטוריה גדולה, בקטנה בפייסבוק: www.facebook.com/Diggstory
סמסונג נקסט: samsungnext.com/tel-aviv/
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2018-06-211h 15
Tell me a history - Erzähl mir eine Geschichtetmah012 Das Mogulreich
Von Zentralasien aus eroberten Nachkommen von Dschingis Khan (gest. 1227) und Timur (gest. 1405) nach und nach den indischen Subkontinent und bildeten das Mogulreich, eine der langlebigsten Dynastien in der islamischen Geschichte (1526-1858). Welche administrativen und kulturellen Veränderungen brachten sie mit sich? Wie gestalteten sie das Zusammenleben der vielen unterschiedlichen Ethnien und Religionen in ihrem Reich? Wie zeichnete sich ihre künstlerische Selbstdarstellung aus und wie wurden sie in Folgezeiten gesehen (u.a. von den Briten)?Einblicke und Antworten zu diesen Fragen bietet uns Prof. Dr. Eva Orthmann, die zur Zeit der Aufnahme Professorin für Islamwissenschaft an der Rhe...
2018-05-071h 25
The MyIndMakers PodcastPodcast 163.0: CJI Mishra & Impeachment, Yechury, PM Modi, and Rama-Sita & Audrey TruschkeAadit Kapadia and Sunanda Vashisht talk about CJI Mishra & Impeachment. They also talk about the Justice Loya Case, Yechury and PM Modi. Lastly they talk about the controversy over the Rama-Sita analogy by Audrey Truschke.
2018-04-2435 min
New Books in LanguageAudrey Truschke, “Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court” (Columbia UP, 2016)Contemporary scholarship on the Mughal empire has generally ignored the role Sanskrit played in imperial political and literary projects. However, in Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court (Columbia University Press, 2016), Audrey Truschke, Assistant Professor of South Asian History at Rutgers University–Newark, demonstrates that Sanskrit was central to the process of royal self-definition. She documents how Brahman and Jain intellectuals were working closely with Persian-speaking Islamic elite around the cultural framework of the central royal court. These projects often revolved around cross-cultural textual production and translation, putting Sanskrit and Persian works in conversation. The production of Mughal-backed te...
2017-04-0351 minNew Books in Islamic StudiesAudrey Truschke, “Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court” (Columbia UP, 2016)Contemporary scholarship on the Mughal empire has generally ignored the role Sanskrit played in imperial political and literary projects. However, in Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court (Columbia University Press, 2016), Audrey Truschke, Assistant Professor of South Asian History at Rutgers University–Newark, demonstrates that Sanskrit was central to the process of royal self-definition. She documents how Brahman and Jain intellectuals were working closely with Persian-speaking Islamic elite around the cultural framework of the central royal court. These projects often revolved around cross-cultural textual production and translation, putting Sanskrit and Persian works in conversation. The production of Mughal-backed te...
2017-04-0351 minOff the Page: A Columbia University Press PodcastAudrey Truschke, “Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court” (Columbia UP, 2016)Contemporary scholarship on the Mughal empire has generally ignored the role Sanskrit played in imperial political and literary projects. However, in Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court (Columbia University Press, 2016), Audrey Truschke, Assistant Professor of South Asian History at Rutgers University–Newark, demonstrates that Sanskrit was central to the process of royal self-definition. She documents how Brahman and Jain intellectuals were working closely with Persian-speaking Islamic elite around the cultural framework of the central royal court. These projects often revolved around cross-cultural textual production and translation, putting Sanskrit and Persian works in conversation. The production of Mughal-backed te...
2017-04-0349 min