संवाद # 42: Tripurdaman Singh on State Vs Society, Nehru’s republic, Nehru Vs Jinnah, Modi’s India скачать в хорошем качестве

संवाद # 42: Tripurdaman Singh on State Vs Society, Nehru’s republic, Nehru Vs Jinnah, Modi’s India

Dr Tripurdaman Singh is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London and a Visiting Fellow at the International Institute of Asian Studies, Universiteit Leiden. He is the author of ’Imperial Sovereignty and Local Politics: The Bhadauria Rajputs and the Transition from Mughal to British India, 1600-1900’ and ‘Sixteen Stormy Days: The Story of the First Amendment to the Constitution of India’. His latest book is ‘Nehru: The Debates that defined India’. 0:00 Why Royal families still enjoy mass support 4:00 How Indian electorate is changing 6:30 Expansion of Indian State & shrinking space for society 12:29 Is State winning? 16:12 Western modernity & Monotheism 20:40 Secularisation & decline of religion in the West 24:06 Decline of religion & rise of Nazism, Communism et al 25:28 India has ‘East’minister system not Westminster one 35:25 Nehru-isation or Indianisation 38:34 Nehru Vs Shyama Prasad Mukherjee 42:38 Nehru, Hindi Society & Hindi Code Bills 51:00 Nehru Vs Jinnah 56:12 Nehru & forgotten lessons of bloody partition 57:46 Is Modi anti-Nehru? 1:03:02 Why is Nehru fascinating? 1:06:12 Nehru’s legacy is well alive today 1:08:54 Nehru’s failures are more talked about than successes