[Reader-list] Invitation to Screening of ‘Azad and Jinnah’: A Film by Amar Sohal

[Praveen Rai]

Centre for the Study of Developing Societies

invites you to a film screening





*AZAD and JINNAH: *

*A political rivalry in late colonial india*

(A film by Amar Sohal)





Friday, 2 September 2016, 5 pm
                            *RSVP *

CSDS Seminar
Room,
                      Tel:
011 23942199

29 Rajpur Road, Delhi
110054
           Fax:
011 23943450

Please join us for tea at 4.30
pm
    email:
jaya at csds.in





*AZAD and JINNAH *explores the political ideas of two rival Muslim leaders
between 1937 and 1947: Maulana Azad, the long-serving president of the
Indian National Congress and independent India’s first Minister of
Education and Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the foremost leader of the Muslim League
and Pakistan’s first Governor-General.



The film written and presented by Amar Sohal, a DPhil student at Merton
College, University of Oxford, uncovers the attitudes of Azad and Jinnah
towards liberal democracy, Islam, and Indian history, culture and
geography, and shows how their political thought often diverged, but on
occasions thrillingly converged, as the subcontinent’s fate hung in the
balance. It includes interviews with leading historians: Farzana Shaikh
(Chatham House, London), Faisal Devji (St Antony's College, University of
Oxford), Francis Robinson (Royal Holloway, University of London), and
Shruti Kapila (Corpus Christi, University of Cambridge). The scholarly
commentary is interspersed with dramatizations that bring history ‘alive’.
Aaron Virdee plays Azad and Amerjit Deu plays Jinnah.


The film will be followed by a discussion and Q & A with Amar Sohal.



-- 
Praveen Rai
Academic Secretary
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
29, Rajpur Road
Delhi - 110054
Phone: 91-11-23942199
http://www.csds.in/praveen.rai