S2E36: Heritage and History Today
Today is World Heritage Day! HistoryChatter in this episode revisits the relation between history and heritage. Following the work of David Lowenthal, who may well be called the pioneer of critical he...
18 Apr 202226min
S2E35: A 16th century Agony Aunt
What kind of questions do you believe would be asked to an agony aunt in the 16th century? What were the major concerns of the people who wanted to look good or appear well-mannered in those days? His...
10 Apr 20226min
S2E34: Insanity, lunacy and madness in colonial north India ft Dr. Shilpi Rajpal
This episode of HistoryChatter features an interview with Dr. Shilpi Rajpal of Copenhagen University. Rajpal published a pioneering social history of insanity and madness in nineteen and twentieth-cen...
4 Apr 202245min
S2E33: The Father of Western Education in India
Raja Rammohan Ray, who is often called the first modern Indian, wrote a letter in 1823 to Governor-General Lord Amherst. In the letter, he protested against the government's decision to assign special...
27 Mar 202215min
S2E32: An Indian ICS officer in 1870s
S N Banerjea, a founder member of the Indian National Congress, had a distinguished career in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century as a teacher and a politician. However, he was also one of...
20 Mar 202224min
S2E31: A new history of Art Cinema in India ft. Dr. Rochona Majumdar
This episode of HistoryChatter is a conversation with Chicago Historian Rochona Majumdar about her new book on Indian art cinema. Majumdar speaks about how the promoters of art cinema participated in ...
14 Mar 202250min
S2E30: How First World War Made Smoking Popular
Cigarette smoking is injurious to health. But it was once promoted as a stress reliever. During the First World War in particular, cigarette smoking was in fact encouraged as a morale booster. Cigaret...
20 Feb 202218min
S2E29: How and When Did Coffee Houses Turn into Public Squares?
Coffee houses arrived in England in the seventeenth century, probably from Turkey. By the eighteenth century, they evolved into an animated public square. Men visiting coffee houses gradually took to ...
13 Feb 202224min
