In this episode of Nous Podcast, we speak with Dr. Yasmin Saikia, historian of South Asia and peace scholar, whose work examines memory, erasure, and the ethics of belonging. Reflecting on her personal and intellectual journey from Assam to Aligarh to American academia, she unpacks the condition …
2:11Dr. Yasmin Saikia is historian of South Asia and peace scholar, whose work examines memory, erasure, and the ethics of belonging. Reflecting on her personal and intellectual journey from Assam to Aligarh to American academia, she unpacks the condition of Assamese Muslims, especially those stigmat…
2:12In the 1950s, Miya Muslims in Assam declared Assamese as their mother tongue, urged by Congress to help make it the state language. Today, they are vilified and not recognized as Assamese. Their loyalty turned into erasure. This is what Dr. Yasmin Saikia calls "ethical and historical loneliness."
2:20In this episode of Nous Podcast, historian Dr. Yasmin Saikia, in conversation with @ali-javed reflects on memory, erasure, and the ethical loneliness of Muslims in Assam. From Partition to post-9/11 America, she traces Muslim invisibility across borders and histories.
56:39In the first episode of Emerging Perspectives, Sania Ismailee joins Wardah Beg for a conversation about the philosophical questions that lie beneath India’s debate on the Uniform Civil Code. For eight years, through her PhD research, Sania examined the UCC through the questions of secularism and …
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2:44:36In this conversation, Dr. Harish S. Wankhede joins Ali Javed to examine the political and cultural legacy of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar and the evolution of the Dalit movement. They discuss how Ambedkar imagined Dalits as political subjects at a time when they were denied even basic human dignity, and how…
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