
S1E12: Exploring The History Of Hill Stations In India
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 ...
10 Marras 202026min

S1E11: How Public Schools In England Invented Football
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 u...
28 Loka 202031min

S1E10: Durga Pujo in 2020 ft. Jawhar Sircar, Anthropologist of Religion
In the first part of the Durga puja special, we were talking about the history of the puja as a public festival. We were also looking at how the festival gave rise in recent years to a new kind of art...
22 Loka 202037min

S1E9: History, Art & Politics of the Durga Pujo
HistoryChatter in this special episode recalls a history of the Durga Puja festival. It has seen a number of shifts in its public career since the 16th century. This episode looks at these shifts. Ini...
20 Loka 202043min

S1E8: The Early History Of Football
Football is probably the most popular sport in the world. Yet, serious academic research on football did not begin until the 1960s. That was a full hundred years after standard rules were introduced ...
15 Loka 202017min

S1E7: Sufi Teachings In The Sikh Holy Book
Several verses of Sufi saint Baba Farid are found in the holy book of the Sikhs. These are called Farid Bani. This episode of HistoryChatter deals with some questions around this surprising convergenc...
7 Loka 202018min

S1E6: Gandhi's Last Struggle
Gandhi would be 151 years old today. This episode focuses on his writings and speeches during the last few months of his life. Partition and violence had filled his mind with a sense of failure. He u...
2 Loka 202020min

S1E5: Why Did Film Censorship Start In India?
This episode of history chatter looks at the early history of film censorship in India. It shows that the Indian state did not know much about the cinema industry until the 1920s. The first attempt to...
30 Syys 202030min





















