संवाद # 75: Dr Vikram Sampath tells the tales of warriors of Bharat who stood up to invaders скачать в хорошем качестве

संवाद # 75: Dr Vikram Sampath tells the tales of warriors of Bharat who stood up to invaders

Historian Vikram Sampath is the author of seven acclaimed books, including Splendours of Royal Mysore: The Untold Story of the Wodeyars; My Name Is Gauhar Jaan: The Life and Times of a Musician; Voice of the Veena: S Balachander: A Biography; Women of the Records and Indian Classical Music and the Gramophone: 1900-1930. His latest books, published by Penguin Random House India, are the two-volume biography Savarkar: Echoes from a Forgotten Past and Savarkar: A Contested Legacy, 1924-1966. Both the volumes have gone on to become national best sellers. In 2021, Vikram was elected as fellow to the prestigious Royal Historical Society of the United Kingdom. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi's first Yuva Puraskar in English literature and the ARSC International Award for excellence in historical research in New York for his book on Gauhar Jaan. The book has also been adapted to theatre as a play Gauhar by Lillette Dubey and is being adapted to a Bollywood film by Ashutosh Gowariker. Vikram was among the four writers and artists to be selected as a writer-in-residence at the Rashtrapati Bhawan in 2015. Vikram has a doctorate in history and music from the University of Queensland, Australia, and was a Senior Research Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi. He is also an Aspen Global Leadership Fellow and an Eisenhower Global Fellow 2021. An engineer/mathematician from BITS-Pilani and with an MBA degree in finance from S. P. Jain, Mumbai, Vikram is also a trained Carnatic vocalist. He has established the Archive of Indian Music, India's first digital sound archive for vintage recordings. He is the founder-director of the Bangalore Literature Festival and curates the ZEE Group's ARTH-A Culture Fest. His latest book 'Bravehearts of Bharat' is out. You can order your copy here: https://www.amazon.in/Bravehearts-Bha... 0:00 Intro 1:07 Book will release in Hindi & other languages 2:25 Kantara dekhi kya? 4:05 Rani Abbakka & Bhoota Kola 5:55 Itihasa Vs History 14:09 India’s warriors who stood against invasions 20:33 Indian tradition of taking intellectuals away as war booty 24:41 Cholas, Ghazni & Somnath invasion 26:01 The common Hindu’s resistance to invaders 30:16 No good thing is Hindu 34:36 Indian society was NOT in decline when Islamic invasions began 42:55 When Rana Kumbha attacked a mosque in retaliation 46:05 Savarkar’s compliant against Shivaji Maharaj 49:13 When a Hindu king destroys a temple 51:03 The warriors: The builders of great temples 51:52 Did Cholas colonise South-East Asia? 57:21 The Odisha Maharaja who built Konark Temple