The Discover India Podcast by Professor Pankaj Jain: Bhārat Darśan

The Discover India Podcast by Professor Pankaj Jain: Bhārat Darśan

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  • Chapter 7 Jñāna Vijñāna Yoga: Philological & Philosophical Analysis of the Bhagavad Gita

    Verse 14 - From this episode:

    दैवी ह्येषा गुणमयी मम माया दुरत्यया ।
    मामेव ये प्रपद्यन्ते मायामेतां तरन्ति ते ॥
    Tune in every Sunday for a new episode of the philological and philosophical analysis of the Bhagavad Gita!
    Texts referenced in the series:
    1. Gītā Rahasya by Lokmanya Tilak
    2. Gītā Discourses by Osho
    3. Gītā Discourses by Rev. Athavale Dadaji
    4. Gītā interpretation by Mahatma Gandhi
    5. Gītā commentary by Adi Shankaracharya
    6. Sargeant Winthrop and Christopher Key Chapple. The Bhagavad Gītā. State University of New York Press 2009.
    7. Goldman Robert P and Sally J Sutherland. Devavāṇīpraveśikā : An Introduction to the Sanskrit Language. 3rd ed. Center for South Asia Studies University of California: 1999.
    Press, 2009.
    8. The Bhagavad Gītā - Selected Shlokas set to Music (2-CD Set), sung by Ravindra Sathe and team, music by Vanraj Bhatia, album by Music Today, 2009.
    Gita app based on Sri Aurobindo’s commentary:
    Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.org.bhagavadgita&hl=en_US&gl=US&pli=1
    iPhone: https://apps.apple.com/in/app/bhagavad-gita-sri-aurobindo/id1143882659

    48 min
  • The Nature of Endangerment in India: Tigers, 'Tribes', Extermination & Conservation, 1818-2020

    Perhaps no category of people on earth has been perceived as more endangered, nor subjected to more preservation efforts, than indigenous peoples. In India, calls for conserving Adivasi culture have often reached a fever pitch, especially amongst urban middle-class activists and global civil society groups. But are India's 'tribes' really endangered? Do they face extinction? And is this threat somehow comparable to extinction facing tigers and other wildlife? Combining years of fieldwork and archival research with intensive theoretical interrogations, this book offers a global intellectual history of efforts to 'protect' indigenous peoples and their cultures, usually from above. It also critiques the activist's impulse to cry 'Save the tigers!' and 'Save the tribes!' together in the same breath. It is not a history or an ethnography of the tribes of India but rather a history of discourses—including Adivasis' own—about what is perceived to be the fundamental question for nearly all Indigenous peoples in the modern world: the question of survival. Examining views of interlinking biological and cultural (or biocultural) diversity loss in western and central India—particularly regarding Bhil and Gond communities facing not only conservation and development-induced displacement but also dehumanizing animal analogies comparing endangered tigers and tribes—the book problematizes the long history of human endangerment and extinction discourse. In doing so, it shows that fears of tribal extinction predated scientific awareness of the extinction of non-human species. Only by confronting this history can we begin to decolonize this discourse.

    Ezra Rashkow is an Associate Professor of History at Montclair State University in New Jersey, USA. Before joining the faculty at Montclair, he completed his PhD and a teaching fellowship at SOAS, University of London. Then, he held a position at the University of Virginia (UVA) as a Lecturer in Modern South Asian History. As well as publishing several articles on modern South Asian history, world environmental history, and the history of colonial anthropology, he has published two books: the co-edited Memory, Identity and the Colonial Encounter in India: Essays in Honor of Peter Robb (Routledge, 2017); and a monograph, The Nature of Endangerment in India: Tigers, 'Tribes,' Extermination & Conservation, 1818-2020 (Oxford University Press, 2023). He is currently working on his next book, a global history of efforts to conserve indigenous and tribal cultures within national parks and other protected areas, tentatively titled People Parks: Histories of Preserving Inhabited Wilderness.
    Much of his work engages with the experiences of indigenous peoples in modernity and global debates over the relationship between biological and cultural diversity. In particular, the concept of "endangerment" has become a unifying strand throughout his body of work to date. His research thus explores historical discourses and policies that protect biological and cultural diversity as similarly endangered and in need of similar or simultaneous forms of conservation. Working in western and central India, he collects oral histories of Bhil, Gond, Baiga, Kurku, and other Adivasi communities facing conservation- and/or development-induced displacement. He then situates these oral histories in dialog with the colonial archive, anthropological accounts, and activist engagements with these communities' histories.

    1 hr 9 min
  • Naturally Musical - Ep 3 | Eco-Friendly Songs in Indian Films | Manoj Govindraj & Prof. Pankaj Jain

    The much-awaited episode three of Naturally Musical - a venture Professor Pankaj Jain and Shri Manoj Govindraj have undertaken to share the often simple yet layered thoughts behind eco-friendly songs in Indian films🎵

    Keep up with every episode to see how Prof. Pankaj Jain masterfully peels back the glass onion of lyrical complexity in Indian film music while Manojji explains the theoretical aspects and Hindustani classical linkages that make these melodies beautiful.
    With sprinkles of short performances by both Manoj ji and I, we truly hope you enjoy this deep dive into eco-friendly Indian film music that we call “Naturally Musical”🎶

    40 min
  • Naturally Musical - Ep 2 | Eco-Friendly Songs in Indian Films | Manoj Govindraj & Prof. Pankaj Jain

    Naturally Musical - Ep 2 | Eco-Friendly Songs | Shri Manoj Govindraj & Prof. Pankaj Jain

    The much-awaited episode two of Naturally Musical - a venture Professor Pankaj Jain and Shri Manoj Govindraj have undertaken to share the often simple yet layered thoughts behind eco-friendly songs in Indian films🎵
    Keep up with every episode to see how Prof. Pankaj Jain masterfully peels back the glass onion of lyrical complexity in Indian film music while Manojji explains the theoretical aspects and Hindustani classical linkages that make these melodies beautiful.
    With sprinkles of short performances by both Manoj ji and I, we truly hope you enjoy this deep dive into eco-friendly Indian film music that we call “Naturally Musical”🎶

    26 min

About The Discover India Podcast by Professor Pankaj Jain: Bhārat Darśan

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Bhārat Darśan: The Discover India Podcast is about Indian Culture, Indian classical music, Sustainability, Hindu/Buddhist/Jain Studies, Film Studies, and Diaspora Studies. Episodes also include presentations at various conferences and webinars. Dr. Pankaj Jain is the Director of The India Centre and the Head of the Department of Humanities and Language at FLAME University.

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