[Reader-list] `The Invention of Hinduism for Political Use'; CSDS; 1st Dec, 1430

[Rajesh Ramakrishnan]

Monday, 1st December, 2008

Benjamin Zachariah will speak on


The Invention of Hinduism for Political Use


at 2:30 PM in the Seminar Room, CSDS, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi – 110 054

Benjamin Zachariah is Reader in History at the University of Sheffield
and is currently on secondment to the Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin.
His research interests centre on the social and intellectual history
of colonial and postcolonial South Asia, in particular the
intellectual history of development in its late colonial, postcolonial
and Cold War contexts; interactions between metropolitan and Indian
ideas; and political culture, political rhetoric and standards of
political legitimacy in colonial and postcolonial India. His current
project is on Indian exiles in Berlin in the interwar period.

His publications include Developing India: An Intellectual and Social
History, c. 1930-50 (OUP; 2005) and Nehru (Routledge; 2004), a new and
offbeat biography. A forthcoming book is The Ambiguities of
Nationalism in India: Essays in Antinationalism (Yoda Press).