Historychatter Podcast

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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