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In this two-part instalment of Passing Notes Oliver Mumford is joined by Professor Tim Allender of the University of Sydney to discuss his award-winning book Empire Religiosity: Convent habits in colonial and postcolonial India. Professor Allender’s research considers how the Loreto Sisters - Roman Catholic female missionaries - operated in colonial and postcolonial India to carry out their educational mission. 

In part two Professor Allender explores how the Loreto sisters worked as both outsiders and products of empire, and how they negotiated and worked within a colonial world. The episode follows the history of the order in India from their foundation to the present, considering the history of the order in shaping their contemporary role.