OxPods

The podcast by Oxford students and their professors. OxPods aims to create thought-provoking and easily digestible podcast episodes, made for anyone with an interest in the world around them. Each episode entails an Oxford student interviewing one of their world-leading professors on the niche, weird, and wonderful of their subjects. With episodes exploring the nooks and crannies of the Natural Sciences, English, History, Human Sciences, and PPE, OxPods has something for everyone. If you would like the transcript of an episode, please get in touch with us via email - contact@oxpods.co.uk

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Episodes (86)

Feb 9th Ashrams and the War on Non-Violence
Dec 16, 2025 Sufi Islam and Western Followers
Nov 17, 2025 Hinduism and Comparative Religion

OxPods

Feb 9, 2026
41 minutes
75 MB

How do religious communities engage with questions of empire, power, peace, and political action? And what can these debates tell us about global histories of non-violence? I’m Robert Taylor, a History DPhil student at New College, researching the post-1945 British counterculture’s interest in India. Today I’m joined by Floris de Ruiter, a PhD candidate at the Institute for History, University of Leiden, whose research examines intellectual debates around violence and non-violence within ashram communities. In this episode, we’re exploring ashrams and the history of ideas about violence and non-violence in 20th-century South Asia.

OxPods

Ashrams and the War on Non-Violence

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