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Rajmohan Gandhi Reflects on India's Founding Fathers | Ideas of India

Shruti Rajagopalan speaks with Rajmohan Gandhi, a historian and biographer involved in efforts for trust-building and reconciliation and author of more than fifteen books, of which the most recent is Fraternity: Constitutional Norm and Human Need. He taught history and politics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1997 until his retirement in 2022. His most recent initiative is We Are One Humanity (WAOH), a writers collective responding to the worldwide thrusts against democracy and equality. They spoke about his reflections on his biographies of the founding fathers, Vallabhai Patel, Mohandas Gandhi, C Rajagopalachari, and Gaffar Khan, their competing visions, debates with others like Ambedkar and Nehru, constitutional values, the civil rights movement, his faith, and much more. Recorded April 18th, 2025 Transcript and links: https://www.mercatus.org/ideasofindia... Stay connected: Follow Ideas of India on X: https://x.com/IdeasofIndia Follow Shruti: https://x.com/srajagopalan https://mercatus.org Photo credit for image featuring Martin Luther King, Jr.: Library of Congress