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Podcast: When Greeks Flew Kites (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: Fake HistoryPub date: 2019-05-06This month, Sarah Dunant explores the history of fake history.In March this year, the Christchurch attacker invoked a twisted interpretation of medieval history and the crusades to justify his terrorist attack on a mosque. In this programme, Dr Levi Roach contextualises the Battle of Tours, the historical event invoked by the Christchurch attacker, and explains how groups on the

Podcast: When Greeks Flew Kites (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: Fake HistoryPub date: 2019-05-06This month, Sarah Dunant explores the history of fake history.In March this year, the Christchurch attacker invoked a twisted interpretation of medieval history and the crusades to justify his terrorist attack on a mosque. In this programme, Dr Levi Roach contextualises the Battle of Tours, the historical event invoked by the Christchurch attacker, and explains how groups on the

Podcast: NightsEpisode: Sweeping history under the rugPub date: 2017-08-17Audrey Truschke wrote a biography of Aurangzeb, the major Mughal king who fought Shivaji. And in accordance with legal advice, she had to alter some parts of the Indian edition. She's on the show to talk about her research and whether we forget history, or change it.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from RNZ, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Nights (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Sweeping history under the rugPub date: 2017-08-17Audrey Truschke wrote a biography of Aurangzeb, the major Mughal king who fought Shivaji. And in accordance with legal advice, she had to alter some parts of the Indian edition. She's on the show to talk about her research and whether we forget history, or change it.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from RNZ, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or

Podcast: New Books NetworkEpisode: Audrey Truschke, “Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court” (Columbia UP, 2016)Pub date: 2017-04-03Contemporary scholarship on the Mughal empire has generally ignored the role Sanskrit played in imperial political and literary projects. However, in Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court (Columbia University Press, 2016), Audrey Truschke, Assistant Professor of South Asian History at Rutgers University–Newark, demonstrates that Sanskrit was

Podcast: New Books NetworkEpisode: Audrey Truschke, “Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court” (Columbia UP, 2016)Pub date: 2017-04-03Contemporary scholarship on the Mughal empire has generally ignored the role Sanskrit played in imperial political and literary projects. However, in Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court (Columbia University Press, 2016), Audrey Truschke, Assistant Professor of South Asian History at Rutgers University–Newark, demonstrates that Sanskrit was