Changing names sometimes causes major controversies, and sometimes it does not. HistoryChatter in this episode investigates the curious case of villag...
Ep 13: Did Nero Fiddle While Rome Burned?
Roman emperor Nero’s name is often equated with ruthlessness and cruelty in popular memory. Most often, this image revolves around the assumption that...
Ep 12: Exploring The History Of Hill Stations In India Part-II
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...
Ep 12: Exploring The History Of Hill Stations In India
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...
Ep 11: How Public Schools In England Invented Football
HistoryChatter resumes the discussion on the early History of football based on the pioneering research of E G Dunning. As discussed in an earlier epi...
Ep 10: Durga Pujo in 2020 ft. Jawhar Sircar, Anthropologist of Religion
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 festi...
Ep 9: History, Art & Politics of the Durga Pujo
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 16t...
Ep 8: The Early History Of Football
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 hu...
Ep 7: Sufi Teachings In The Sikh Holy Book
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 wit...
Ep 6: Gandhi's Last Struggle
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 ...