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A thread dedicated to analysing the history of the Indian independence movement.
Let us start with a talk brought to attention by @Joe Shearer , I will have to watch it when I get some time and I can tell it will be quite a good watch already looking at the summary given.
Lecture | October 2, 2019 Celebrating the 150th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi A talk by Professor Janaki Bakhle, Associate Professor of History at UC Berkeley, in which she will place Gandhi in conversation with Savarkar against the backdrop of a failed Khilafat movement during the turbulent decade of the 1920s to suggest that despite Gandhi’s peculiar views, he not only channeled Locke’s theory of toleration, but anticipated some of the core problems that would continue to bedevil political democracies not just in India but across the globe.
Janaki Bakhle is Associate Professor of History at UC Berkeley. She specializes in Modern South Asian history. Her areas of specialization include Indian political history, Indian feminist history, nationalism, gender and culture. Her first book, Two Men and Music: Nationalism, Colonialism and the Making of an Indian Classical Tradition was published by Oxford University Press, 2005. She has published in CSSH, and is currently engaged in her second book project about Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, known as the chief ideologue of Hindu fundamentalism, and is writing about sedition, colonial surveillance, and the emergence of Hindu fundamentalism in late nineteenth century India.
Let us start with a talk brought to attention by @Joe Shearer , I will have to watch it when I get some time and I can tell it will be quite a good watch already looking at the summary given.
Lecture | October 2, 2019 Celebrating the 150th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi A talk by Professor Janaki Bakhle, Associate Professor of History at UC Berkeley, in which she will place Gandhi in conversation with Savarkar against the backdrop of a failed Khilafat movement during the turbulent decade of the 1920s to suggest that despite Gandhi’s peculiar views, he not only channeled Locke’s theory of toleration, but anticipated some of the core problems that would continue to bedevil political democracies not just in India but across the globe.
Janaki Bakhle is Associate Professor of History at UC Berkeley. She specializes in Modern South Asian history. Her areas of specialization include Indian political history, Indian feminist history, nationalism, gender and culture. Her first book, Two Men and Music: Nationalism, Colonialism and the Making of an Indian Classical Tradition was published by Oxford University Press, 2005. She has published in CSSH, and is currently engaged in her second book project about Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, known as the chief ideologue of Hindu fundamentalism, and is writing about sedition, colonial surveillance, and the emergence of Hindu fundamentalism in late nineteenth century India.
