[Reader-list] Invitation to a Lecture by Vinayak Chaturvedi on 29 March 2017 at CSDS

[Praveen Rai]

Centre for the Study of Developing Societies

*Ecologies of Democracy Project*

invites you to a lecture





*Hindutva and the Need for Cruelty*

by *Vinayak Chaturvedi*





*Awadhendra Sharan* will Chair

Wednesday, 29 March 2017, 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


This lecture will examine V.D. Savarkar's conceptualization of "cruelty" in
his writings on history.  It will explain that Savarkar's contributions to
the debates on civility in the first half of the twentieth century provided
an important insight: that is, cruelty was central to the understanding of
what he calls Hindu civility-and by extension, Hindu civilization. It will
assess Savarkar's argument that cruelty (and violence, more generally) were
part of one's being a Hindu, Savarkar's typology of cruelty in his writings
and his claim that non-violence constitutes the most severe form of
cruelty.



*Vinayak Chaturvedi* is Associate Professor in the Department of History at
the University of California, Irvine.  His books include *V.D. Savarkar and
the Making of History*,* Peasant Pasts: History and Memory in Western India*
and *Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial*.  His work has also
appeared in *Past and Present, Social History*, *Modern Intellectual
History*, *Postcolonial Studies*.



*Awadhendra Sharan* is Associate Professor at Centre for the Study of
Developing Societies, Delhi.


-- 
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