Talking Frontiers
Talking frontiers aims to create conversations, exchange ideas, and stories by showcasing the rich and proliferating scholarship on North East India and the erstwhile colonial north eastern frontiers of British India. Geographically this frontier included not only the seven states that make up north east of India but also parts of present day Bangladesh, and Myanmar. The region was part of global networks with dynamic precolonial trade and commerce, and monastic orders. The podcast brings into the fore historical and contemporary revelations about frontiers for academics, students, and the public. We will explore historical narratives, oral traditions, cultural articulations, and...
Guest: Janice Pariat- Truth, Time, and Ways of Seeing
In this episode author Janice Pariat discusses questions of truth, time, and ways of seeing. We discuss her latest book Everything the Light Touches published in 2022. It has been in several best settler lists globally, and touched many many people’s hearts . Janice offers so much love, insight, and curiosity with her words and stories. Janice seamlessly weaves in history and orality into her fiction writing. Everything the Light Touches is a historical fiction and bring to readers the multiple and intersectional histories of environment, identity, travel, and the interstices of colonial and indigenous knowledge. Her earlier works, Boats in...
Guest: Dr. Sanghamitra Misra - Research and Teaching Northeastern India
In this episode we talk to Dr. Sanghamitra Misra Professor of History at Delhi University. We discuss the possibilities and limitations of research and teaching on north eastern India. In the podcast Dr. Misra highlights the importance historicising colonial tropes and pernicious legacies of primitivism, violence, space, and identity. Her new work focusses on the 18th century and shows how Garo communities are "forged at the anvil of resistance" to the East India Company. She raises a crucial point in this discussion about why so called "hill tribes" were not referred to as peasants in colonial records? Her recent...
Guest: Dean Kishalay Bhattacharya - Reporting the Margins
In this episode of Talking Frontiers we speak with senior journalist and Dean of JSJC Professor Kishalay Bhattacharjee about his new book Where the Madness Lies: Citizen Accounts of Identity and Nationalism (Orient Blackswan, 2023). We also get insights into his long career as a journalist working in the North East of India.
Guest: Dr. Dolly Nikon - Dialogues with History
In this episode I talk with Dr. Dolly Kikon on contemporary issues that impact inhabitants of borderlands including natural resource extraction, gendered bodies and bordering practices, food sovereignty, and the repatriation of Naga ancestral remains,
Credits
Talking Frontiers is produced at Radio JSJC by Siddhartha Pillay, and Tushar Singh students of the Jindal School of Journalism and Communication with Reeju Ray, Associate Professor of History, JSJC, O.P. Jindal Global University.
Talking Frontiers is supported by the Centre for Research in History.
Guest: Dr. Joy Pachuau - Interconnected Histories of North-East India
We speak with Professor Joy Pachuau and discuss her extensive work on the region variously understood as Eastern Himalayan borderlands, North East frontier of British India, and most recently as the Triangle.
Producers: Siddhartha Pillay and Tushar Singh, Radio JSJC .
