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We're inaugurating a new podcast interview series during this weird time of isolation with recurring guest, Varsha Venkatasubramanian. Varsha is studying for her comprehensive exams in like TWO WEEKS and she was gracious enough to join us to talk about what it's like to read a thousand books when you don't have library access. We discuss the history of decolonization, which Varsha masterfully guides us from the ideological origins in the American Revolution, through the Haitian Revolution, to Woodrow Wilson's 14 points, to Indian independence. Probably the most educational and fact-dense interview I've ever done!
Further Reading
Manu Goswami - Producing India
Ritu Birla - Stages of Capital
Bernard Cohn - Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge
Frederick Cooper - Decolonization and African Society: The Labor Question in French and British Africa
Yasmin Khan - The Great Partition
Ayesha Jalal - The Sole Spokesman
Sarah Stockwell - The British End of the British Empire
Mark Mazower - No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations