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

[Samvit]

Is it possible to stream this lecture live over the internet?? Would love
to attend it virtually.

On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 5:53 PM, Praveen Rai <praveenrai at csds.in> wrote:

> Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
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> *Ecologies of Democracy Project*
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> invites you to a lecture
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> *Hindutva and the Need for Cruelty*
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> by *Vinayak Chaturvedi*
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> *Awadhendra Sharan* will Chair
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> Wednesday, 29 March 2017, 5 pm
>                               *RSVP *
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> CSDS Seminar
> Room,
> Tel: 011 23942199
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> 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi
> 110054
>              Fax:
> 011 23943450
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> Please join us for tea at 4.30 pm
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>    email:
> jaya at csds.in
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> 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.
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> *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*.
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> *Awadhendra Sharan* is Associate Professor at Centre for the Study of
> Developing Societies, Delhi.
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> 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
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