Scrolls & Leaves: World History Podcast

British scientist Sir Ronald Ross tries to stops a deadly cholera outbreak in 1895 Bangalore. He applies learnings from the new field of epidemiology

Can the great divide between Ayurveda and modern science ever be bridged? We talk to biologist Annamma Spudich who's studied traditional medicine.

Cartoonist Arghya Manna is one of the few people who portray the history of Indian science using comics. We talk to him about creating art during Covid-19, and the Great Bengal Famine.

From the mountains of Central Asia comes a musical form that borrows extensively from Nature. In this episode, we talk to Tuvan vocalist and composer, Saylyk Ommun, about Tuvan throat singing and its links with the natural world and modern genres like rock.

Friederike Voigt , the curator of South Asia at the National Museum of Scotland, has been on a decade-long quest to investigate and restore the histories to objects in the museum that speak of colonization. In this episode, we discuss the objects and history of Maharaja Duleep Singh, the last King of the Sikh Empire -- and how he's represented in two paintings by artists who come from drastically different backgrounds.

From the deep mines of South America, tons of silver travel to Mughal India to fill the coffers of Emperors with precious coins