Ur amazing. Love your lectures

His understanding of Marathas is superficial, based on stereotypes from colonial sources

fascinating and informative as always

Good lectures professor. Happy to see.

Sir aap history ko hindi mai pada dete to hindi valo ke liye benefit ho jata

The issue I have with many commentaries on how colonial powers persuaded the 'native' people to go against their apparent self interest is it ironically diminishes the agency and indeed the sophistication of them. Such narraritives strongly imply the colonised people to be almost child-like and easily taken advantage of-- it's certainly something I hear very often and do not agree with of course. The Romans did it with Celtic and Germanic tribes and the Europeans/Americans did it with Native Americans. Clearly some hardly profited from siding with the colonisers, but some certainly must have.

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39:24 - I would like that huge list of these experiments that carried over. Thanks for uploading this lecture :) I want to write an India that overtook the british in a steampunk ttrpg setting I'm writing and this has been a great starting of point to learn about India. :)

I had started listening to this series because it was something which I could listen while I travel to and fro from work. Initially my impression was Sir's interpretation was through a lens of someone who lived outside India and has a view from media they consumed, but down the line as we come to the Mughal and British Era I did realize it was more evidence based, based on years of study and not from whatsapp university. I always wanted to read life story of Buddha, even though the Manga was an inspiration from Buddha's life, it was a good recommendation. This was 10-11 years ago and am not sure what would be Sir's take on contemporary Indian Politics and Psyche.

Jana Gana Mana, India’s national anthem, was originally written by Rabindranath Tagore in a highly Sanskritized form of Bengali. When it was adopted as the national anthem in 1950 by the Constituent Assembly of India, it was not officially translated into Hindi; instead, the original Bengali version was retained. Wonderful lecture, Sir. I am grateful. Regards.

Having finished this wonderful lecture series, I was quite intrigued by all the books Prof. Lal recommends both as part of the readings, as well as a departure/aside during the lectures. I made a list of all the books he mentions. Perhaps the one I found most fascinating in the ones I have read so far is Janet Abu-Lughod's "Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350". Hope this list also helps others who watch these lectures: (1) Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health (Illich, Ivan) (2) Satyagraha in South Africa (Gandhi, Mahatma) (3) Two Cheers for Democracy (Forster, E.M.) (4) A People's History of India - Indian Economy 1858-1914 (Habib, Irfan) (5) The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India (Pandey, Gyanendra) (6) Contentious Traditions: The Debate on Sati in Colonial India (Mani, Lata) (7) The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self Under Colonialism (Nandy, Ashis) (8) Krishna Charitra (Chattopadhyay, Bankim Chandra) (9) The Muslims of British India (Hardy, P.) (10) From Plassey to Partition: A History of Modern India (Bandyopadhyay, Sekhar) (11) Plain Tales from the Raj (Allen, Charles) (12) The Magic Mountains: Hill Stations and the British Raj (Kennedy, Dane) (13) The Frozen Water Trade: A True Story (Weightman, Gavin) (14) Malabar and the Portuguese (Panikkar, K.M.) (15) Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India (Guha, Ranajit) (16) Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule (Gandhi, Mahatma) (17) The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Ecological Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-first Century (Marks, Robert B.) (18) Culture and Imperialism (Said, Edward W.) (19) The Philosophy of History (Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich) (20) The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language (Foucault, Michel) (21) The Social History of the Machine Gun (Ellis, John) (22) A Concise History of Modern India (Metcalf, Barbara D.) (23) Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Thoreau, Henry David) (24) The Story of My Experiments With Truth (Gandhi, Mahatma) (25) Asia and Western Dominance: A Survey of the Vasco Da Gama Epoch of Asian History, 1498-1945 (Panikkar, K.M.) (26) An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions (Drèze, Jean) (27) A Passage to India (Forster, E.M.) (28) The Making of the English Working Class (Thompson, E.P.) (29) The Republic (Plato) (30) The Oriental Renaissance: Europe's Rediscovery of India and the East, 1680-1880 (Schwab, Raymond) (31) The Song of the Shirt: Cheap Clothes across Continents and Centuries (Seabrook, Jeremy) (32) The Autobiography of Malcolm X (X, Malcolm) (33) Empire of Signs (Barthes, Roland) (34) Much Maligned Monsters: A History of European Reactions to Indian Art (Mitter, Partha) (35) Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India (Viswanathan, Gauri) (36) The Discovery of India (Nehru, Jawaharlal) (37) White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India (Dalrymple, William) (38) Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950 (Mazower, Mark) (39) Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350 (Abu-Lughod, Janet L.) (40) In an Antique Land (Ghosh, Amitav) (41) Orientalism (Said, Edward W.) (42) India: A History (Keay, John) (43) Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World (Davis, Mike) (44) Modern India, 1885-1947 (Sarkar, Sumit)

Sir it's a request make videos in hindi too.

This is so interesting! Thanks for putting this out for free! :)

i always appreciate your incredible wealth of knowledge and expertise

Israel does bad things by illegally occupying Palestinian land, by force. But the greatest mistake of Palestinians is to nurture terror groups like the Islamist Hamas, who have no qualms in eliminating innocent people, and who want to eliminate the whole of Israel. It gives Israel a "justification" to carry on its military operations until all its leaders are gone, no matter what the human cost is. A large section of Israeli leadership may also be feeling insecure about their position in the middle East, due to their terrible history...

Overwhelmed. Enjoyed the lecture to fullest. 🙏

Reading Cesaire today in the context of Gaza packs a huge punch. Thanks Vinay.

Brilliant!!

New kind of Sepoy 😂😂😂😂😂

Sir, KZbin shows that 2 videos are unavailable in this course (either deleted or private). Is it possible for you to upload them again. Thank you so much for your work sir.

The conversation between the Sadhu and the Translator is so cool. Alexander wants to know why is he naked. The Sadhu wants to know why is he wearing clothes. Brilliant.

Sir may we have some deep dive lecture on Gandhiji for this Gandhi Jayanti ?

Wonderful. Just wonderful

Sir your lectures are always intersting.

This is no 'movement', nor does it help the Palestinians (including all the terrorists). This is a carnival of sorts; a wanton display of anti-intellectual hubris, masquerading as a movement. And this professor is just being dim-witted. Pathetic.

Why I don't have these kind of professors in my college

Sir, where can I get access to the reading materials that you have mentioned in your lectures?

They rumours conspiracies Ghandi was Jack the ripper racist ignorant all colours, I dont know if he was racist towards African black people nobody was perfect

amazing introduction to the vast subject of indian history, thank you so much for uploading these

In his opening remarks this lecturer reveals in his use of the term "Britishers" an ideological bias not worthy of academic discourse. I listened on, only to discover this initial signal confirmed in the broader perspective taken up throughout the remaining hour or so. Disappointing, to say the least.

3:53 Am in night from Amritsar. This is itching my curiosity though i work as a product manager & what i read + consumer in day-day in more around consumer behavior - phycology , Perception & cognition - overall efforts to input the change - understand motivations and triggers . I really dont know how long i can keep on these lectures , but les see. Prof amazing archive. Morning to you !

33:47 Well there is a word in Malayalam (South Indian language of Kerala) for Religion. It's "matham". മതം.

Sir could you please share the seminar version

My lecturer talks to his gf in front of the whole class

Sir please suggest some extremely eloquent hindi books to learn articulation

Nice sir ❤️

In many ways Ireland was the original laboratory where these ad hoc primitive instincts were rationalised into formulaic policy before being rolled out into modern g£obali$ation uber a££€$. The Irish, being of the same pigmentation, had to be designated the 'mere Irish' in order to pin them to the imperial page. The Ashkenazi tribal-sectarian project in Fort Zion is the culmination of the internalisation of these homicidal policies by a self-selected group of the lowered orders of this falsified heirarchy of merit. By stealing the cloak of the persecuted world Jew the zealots of this sect have beome the U$€fu£ idiots of their own tormentors and displaced their drive for humanity into the common bestiality on full display in Palestine against an innocent population.

A mind blowing lecture series... All Indians interested in history must watch .... N grasp millions of things !!

The Overseas Chinese were often the wrong victims of Anti China sentiments. VS Naipaul mentioned it in his book 'Among the Believers'.

Blessed to have access to his video lectures free of cost.

been loving these book reviews recently, keep it up!!

To be a constructive critic doesn't require denigrating other's views without contextualizing their entire writings. Gandhi is treated by many without reading him studiously...Thank you Prof.Lal for a balanced review.

Before 10 day i am watching this for graduation exam 😂

I'm intrigued. Definitely gonna check this one out. Thank you, Prof. Lal :)

It seems like reading Shakespeare in jail is common for political prisoners. Malaysia's current PM Anwar Ibrahim also said he read a volume of Shakespeare 4 times in jail during early 2000s

Great video, just wanna add that while I agree we should be able to enjoy the works of people with disgusting political views, I do think the conversation is much more difficult when we consider authors etc. Who are alive versus dead, for someone like Hamsun, we arent financially supporting a nazi when we buy his books anymore. However if he were alive I think it would be completely justified to refuse to buy his books if he held the beliefs he did (not saying you have to abstain from buying them, but a strong case for not buying them could be made)

Sir, please have a lecture on liberalism, neo liberalism, imperialism, and all these modern theories.।

This is the most beautiful thing I found this week.

Sir please one video make Arundhati Roy

Dhanyawaad sir ji aap ka ❤