A conversation on Language and the Making of Modern India: Nationalism and the Vernacular in Colonial Odisha, 1803–1956 between author Pritipuspa Mishra (PhD ‘08, history), associate professor of history at University of Southampton and Ajay Skaria, UMN professor of history and director of graduate studies. This event took place December 7, 2022 as part of a series of virtual History Book Club gatherings hosted by the University of Minnesota History Department.