Historychatter Podcast

Now that the Taliban has taken over Afghanistan, it is time to ask questions to why and how the American intervention proved such a total disaster.

HistoryChatter addresses that question by revisiting a little-known aspect of the American military intervention in Afghanistan.

In 2007, Pentagon introduced a new programme called the Human Terrain System.
It involved professional anthropologists travelling with the army and talking to the average Afghan in order to enlist local support for the American intervention.
This episode deals with this idea and implementation of this one of its kind collaboration between anthropologists and the army.
It asks how this new programme influenced prospects of collaboration between the Academia and the industry.

 

Hosted by Dr. Anirban Bandyopadhyay 

 

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Independence Day turns 75 on 15 August 2021. It has been so long that most Indians take the freedom, independence of Swaraj for granted.
But how did those revolutionaries who knew they would perhaps never see Swaraj live out their lives longing for it?
This Independence Day special episode of HistoryChatter presents a detailed history of the early lives of these revolutionaries.
Did you know, for instance, that Chandrasekhar Azad worked as a dockyard laborer in Mumbai or that he had been a staunch follower of Gandhi?

This and many such everyday details from the lives of revolutionaries are taken up in this episode.

 

Hosted by Dr. Anirban Bandyopadhyay 

 

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The quit India movement was the last great mass nationalist upsurge in India before partition and independence. As such, it offers an opportunity to take stock of what the nation looked like before the separation at the birth of the Indian nation.

It offers a clear idea about some of the successes and challenges that both strengthened and hobbled independent India later and continues to do it today. This episode of HistoryChatter is a basic introduction to some of those foundational puzzles and paradoxes about India, then, and now.

Hosted by Dr. Anirban Bandyopadhyay 

 

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Will e-books or audiobooks soon overtake hardbound or paperback books in terms of sales and popularity?

The first episode of season 2 of HistoryChatter answers this question.
It offers a history of paperback books.

Paperback books created a new readership and left another enduring cultural impact. It gave birth to the popular common sense that academic scholars know better about matters of public importance.
In other words, paperback books partly created and popularised the idea of the public intellectual.
Looking closely at the origin and growth of paperback books, which was a whole new format serving the printed word, it becomes clear that new formats do not necessarily displace or remove older formats but create and expand new markets.

All formats-old and new-survive and thrive in their own distinctive manner.

Hosted by Dr. Anirban Bandyopadhyay 

 

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Past is often as diverse and flows in as many directions as the present.
Yet, careful attention to the past also throws up new insights on the present and possibilities for the future.

⏳ Time to explore the large questions as well as the smaller ones.

We are excited to introduce Historychatter Season2!

Tune in as we talk about major popular movements as much as about delicate changes in popular recipes.
From big history to microhistory, or deep history to public history,
Dr. Anirban Bandyopadhyay presents serious research in an accessible and exciting format.

Once you subscribe to HistoryChatter,
you’ll start making history yourself.

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Changing names sometimes causes major controversies, and sometimes it does not. HistoryChatter in this episode investigates the curious case of villages with embarrassing names.

In rural India, mockery and ridicule are commonplace and residents from villagers with embarrassing names are often anxious that neighbors, relatives, and even the government might insult or isolate them.

Yet, the process of officially changing the name of a village is a difficult and lengthy process.
While there may be a number of reasons behind the naming of a village in India, in every case such names appear to subject villagers to endless mockery and embarrassment.
Whenever villagers demand changes in names, it is a desperate attempt on their part to remove or rewrite an unpleasant or embarrassing history.

 

Hosted by Dr. Anirban Bandyopadhyay 

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Roman emperor Nero’s name is often equated with ruthlessness and cruelty in popular memory.
Most often, this image revolves around the assumption that he had been happily playing a stringed instrument while the city of Rome burned in a major fire accident. Some even claim that Nero himself had arranged for the fire so that he could build a new capital in its place.

However, it is a matter of fact that much of this popular recall is not true. Nero was probably not a great emperor. He had committed plenty of violence and caused untold miseries to his subjects during his reign. Yet, it is not clear why and how his notoriety is memorised by the singular image of fiddling while Rome burned.

In this episode Historychatter presents an account of how this particular image gained ground over time.
It would seem that this image of Nero’s cruelty became popular many centuries after the event.
It probably had more to do with his treatment of early Christians.

This episode recalls this intriguing history of the image of Nero fiddling while Rome burned. In so doing, it asks how popular assumptions are burn and circulate over time.

Hosted by Dr. Anirban Bandyopadhyay 

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HistoryChatter walks up to a review of the history of major Hill stations in India. Following the research of Prof. Queeni Pradhan as published in her 2017 book Empire in the Hills, the second part of a multi-part series on Hill Stations recalls how the Europeans imagined the hill stations when their eyes fell upon them for the first time. Generally, they believed that these reminded them of home in England. In future, they thought of these places as a health resort, summer capital, Cantonment, and an economic and military outpost of the empire. The later episodes will focus on how they acquired these places and preceded to change them to their advantage, often by making the locals and their pasts invisible.

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HistoryChatter walks up to a review of the history of major Hill stations in India. Following the research of Prof. Queeni Pradhan as published in her 2017 book Empire in the Hills, the first part of a multi-part series on Hill Stations recalls how the Europeans imagined the hill stations when their eyes fell upon them for the first time. Generally, they believed that these reminded them of home in England. In future, they thought of these places as a health resort, summer capital, Cantonment, and an economic and military outpost of the empire. This episode of the podcast recalls these European visions and projections around the hill towns. The later episodes will focus on how they acquired these places and preceded to change them to their advantage, often by making the locals and their pasts invisible.

Hosted by Dr. Anirban Bandyopadhyay 

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HistoryChatter resumes the discussion on the early History of football based on the pioneering research of E G Dunning.
As discussed in an earlier episode, traditional football began as a bloody and unruly contest among the poorer classes in England. By the eighteenth century, however, it underwent a major change in its career.

The seven earlier public schools saw their students take it up. Incidentally, these schools too were at the time going through a transformation themselves. Initially set up to educate poor students, now they were taken over by students from the aristocracy and the gentry. Urbanization and industrialization had been pulling away the poorer sections into the ranks of industrial labourers.

At public schools, football moved into an existing structure of relations between senior and junior students. The seniors themselves hardly obeyed any rules, since the masters appeared to come from relatively lower classes. There were several instances of student rebellions in all public schools in the early 19th century. By the 1840s, Thomas Arnold, the legendary Master of Rugby, came up with a set of new rules.

These rules struck a fine balance between disciplining unruly senior students and moulding them into responsible leaders. Other public schools followed suit.
In 1849, Eton College introduced the rule that hands cannot be used at all during the game and a goal has to be scored under the bar posts, not above them. This was the final separation between Rugger and Soccer.

The game spread to the rest of the country over the next twenty years and to the rest of the world subsequently. That story will be taken up later.

Hosted by Dr. Anirban Bandyopadhyay 

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