# Audrey Truschke

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Audrey Truschke, "India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent" (Princeton UP, 2025)

I’m Nicholas Gordon, host of the Asian Review of Books podcast, done in partnership with the New Books Network. On this show, we interview authors writing in, around, and about the Asia-Pacific region. How do you tell the story of India–not just the modern-day country, but the whole region of Sou‮…

Audrey Truschke, "India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent" (Princeton UP, 2025)

I’m Nicholas Gordon, host of the Asian Review of Books podcast, done in partnership with the New Books Network. On this show, we interview authors writing in, around, and about the Asia-Pacific region. How do you tell the story of India–not just the modern-day country, but the whole region of Sou‮…

Why this Mughal historian fears coming to India

While completing her PhD in 2012 in New York, Audrey Truschke did not imagine that her work would one day rile up a section of Indians so much that she would feel physically unsafe. So much so that Truschke tells Shoaib Daniyal in this episode of Scroll Adda that she fears coming to India. Truschk‮…

Hindutva in America: A Threat to Equality and Religious Pluralism with Audrey Truschke (Episode 40)

In this episode, Sahar Aziz is in dicussion with Dr. Audrey Truschke and Dr. Dheepa Sundaram about the new groundbreaking report published by CSRR entitled Hindutva in America: A Threat to Equality and Religious Pluralism, which is available for download at csrr.rutgers.edu Audrey Truschke is a Pr‮…

#447 - 5,000 Years of India: A Dialogue with Audrey Truschke

In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Audrey Truschke about the history of India. They discuss India as a subcontinent, the Indus Valley civilization, nomadic to cities and empires, trade, Indo-European language and Sanskrit, Vedas and Hinduism, and development of other religions. Th‮…

Mughals & the Mythmaking of Hindu Nationalism ft. Dr. Audrey Truschke

Today’s India is awash in fiction about the Mughals—imagined atrocities, distorted narratives, and politically weaponized history. In this episode, historian Dr. Audrey Truschke joins us to unpack the biggest myths about the Mughal Empire, and examine why Hindu nationalist groups are so determined‮…

The historian’s charge is not to forget: Audrey Truschke

Published on September 8, 2025. In her new book, India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent, Audrey Truschke once calls historians “killjoys”. It is, she tells Frontline, because people often like to weave “fantastic, semi-mythical ideas about the past where everything comes together”. The‮…

Deep Cut: What Will Yoga Do to Our Children?

Deep Cut pulls from our bonus episode archive to unearth previous ideas that remain relevant today. News from Alabama: after a 23-year ban on yoga in schools, generated by a Republican moral panic, Governor Kay Ivey signs a bill that lets kids do yoga again, but with some restrictions: "All instru‮…

India will collapse without digital sovereignty and Pax Indica: lessons from Hormuz

A version of this essay has been published by Open Magazine at https://openthemagazine.com/world/india-will-collapse-without-digital-sovereignty-and-pax-indica-lessons-from-hormuz By now it is clear that the Iran War (or West Asia War) has been a disaster to all concerned, including the principals‮…