Introducing the Lekh podcast.
A Conquest of Past(s) – Faridah Zaman
A Book of Conquest: The Chachnama and Muslim Origins in South Asia by Manan Ahmed Asif Harvard University Press, 272…
Managing Maladies – Anna Ruddock
Do We Care?: India’s Health System by K. Sujatha Rao Oxford University Press, 479 pp., 2017. For an administration of…
A History of Himsa – Joseph McQuade
Political Violence in Ancient India by Upinder Singh Harvard University Press, 616 pp., 2017. Shortly after independence, India’s first…
Consigned by Caste – Sneha Krishnan
Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India by Sujatha Gidla Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 306…
A Country whose Time has Come – Kunal Singh
Our Time has Come: How India is Making its Place in the World by Alyssa Ayres Oxford University Press, 360…
Museum of Loss – Vipul Dutta
Remnants of a Separation: A History of Partition through Material Memory by Aanchal Malhotra Harper Collins India, 386 pp., 2017.…
Striking back at the Empire – Annu Daftuar
The Chaos of Empire: The British Raj and the Conquest of India by Jon Wilson Public Affairs, 584 pp., 2016.…
Toilets before Temples – Rohit Lamba
Where India Goes: Abandoned Toilets, Stunted Development and the Costs of Caste by Diane Coffey and Dean Spears Harper Collins…
Introducing Lekh – Editors Note
South Asia is replete with literary traditions and scribes. This legacy stretching back to centuries old processes of literary activities came…
