Rewind

In this episode, Dr. Deepra Dandekar discusses her work on Sufism in postcolonial India using grey literature emphasising the nuances of the space of the dargah and the rewriting of tradition to accomodate social histories.

In this episode of Rewind, Dr. Rochona Majumdar discusses the use of cinema as a mode of doing history in postcolonial Bengal, the 'indianness' of Indian New Wave Cinema, the apparent divide between 'art cinema' and 'commercial cinema' and more in relation to her third book - Art Cinema and India's Forgotten Futures: Film and History in the Postcolony.

In this episode of Rewind, Dr. Paula C. Austin talks about interiority, gendered, classed and racialized spaces of Washington D.C. under Jim Crow and the identity formation, aspirations and intellectual capacities of young, working-class and poor African Americans in the inter-war period. 

In this episode of Rewind, Dr. Jessica Hinchy talks about the intersection of gender and sexuality in colonial India, specifically in the context of the Hijra community and elaborates on the processes of evolution of labels, moral policing and law making. 

In this episode of Rewind, Dr. Durba Mitra talks about the concept of deviant female sexuality, the emergence of modern social thought, the relationship between colonial law and prostitution, processes of censorship of sexual expression and the limitations of sources. 

In this episode of Rewind, Dr. De Baets talks about misinformation in history, censorship, academic freedom and politics of history writing.

In this episode of Rewind, Farah Yameen talks about food history, its intersections with other branches of history, oral history projects and digital archiving.

In this episode, Ira Mukhoty discusses the representation of women in Indian history and mythology in the light of her new book 'Song of Draupadi'. 

In this episode of Rewind, Dr. Aloka Parashar-Sen discusses the various modes of social exclusion in the past and the intersections of history with other disciplines.

In this episode of Rewind, Dr Navina Jafa addresses the issues of heritage preservation and the socio-cultural narratives which surround it.