D. D. KOSAMBI LECTURES

THE FISSURES OF MODERN HINDUISM: RELIGION AND HISTORIOGRAPHY

SPEAKER
Pratap Bhanu Mehta (Vice Chancellor, Ashoka University)
DATE & TIME
24 May 2018, 16:00 to 18:00
VENUE
ICTS TIFR, Bengaluru
This talk will focus on the transition of Hinduism from a worldview into an ethnic identity, and the intellectual moves that made this possible.

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0:00:00 Introduction
0:12:19 The Fissures of Modern Hinduism: Religion and Historiography
0:17:32 Nature of this book
0:21:48 Arguments: The kind of crisis that you see generated in an intellectual life in public life by international
0:28:10 Demographic Anxiety: Political representations
0:39:21 Kosambi Work
0:44:34 Methodological Story: What is the relationship between the texts in the world in which they were produced?
0:53:49 How do we read kind of Kosambi?
1:05:33 Are the cultural conditions under which this practice can be understood?
1:09:54 Aravinda's Condition
1:11:25 United Intellectual Vacuum
1:15:39 Hariprasad Vedi Closing thought
1:17:49 Q&A