Ashis Nandy on colonialism: The Intimate Enemy, Part One

[@wonderfacts7782]

Thank you so much professor. Please continue this series. We can learn many more things from you.

[@mrsothil8589]

Am Indonesian, really envy that India has a great scholar to teach their history in details

[@ethanpettit]

Thank you! Buying the Intimate Enemy now. Anandamath is one of the dozen books always on my bedside bookshelf. Professor Lal, you are a treasure!

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You are a gem 💎 sir. Diamond 💎

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Thank you for this new initiate. I have already ordered the book so that it becomes engaging.

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Sir kindly make more of such videos. Thankyou for the effort.

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Vinay ji thanks 🙏for this intellectual feast, you 🌹have got a beautiful mind..

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[@MantoshKumarS]

Thank you Prof. Vinay Ji for this series, it really will help as you mentioned in the first video ,the self taught knowledge seekers like me to have a standard reference material in the list. I wonder if somwhere I can find a list of best books recommended by you on Indian history, as I am a neuroscience researcher, so a little less aware about the best in the field of history. And ofcourse I enjoy all your history course on KZbin, infact it has become one of the reasons for my interest in this field. Thanks again🙏

[@sakekasi]

Thank you for the excellent lecture! Seems like you’re always one step ahead about the next thing I’d love to hear from you. One question about the masculinity/femininity topic: Is it clear that the emphasis on the aspects of femininity in the culture reflect more rights/power for women in practice? Is there a reading that sheds more light on the position of women in pre-colonial indian societies? Thanks again for the wonderful talk. Looking forward to reading the book!

[@dillichalo]

Hello Saketh, It is assumed by nearly everyone that we can judge the standing women have in any society by the "rights" that they have. That is not necessarily the case. First, let us keep in mind that the conception of "rights" is a modern one. Secondly, people may enjoy liberties or what are called "rights" without having the constitutional sanction to do so. For instance, women in Hawaii before it became an American possession enjoyed liberties which women in the United States did not. Rather ironically, once Hawaii got a written constitution in the mid-19th century, they lost many of the liberties that they enjoyed since the constitution did not explicitly confers "rights" on them. So we cannot assume that since women did not have many "rights" in the pre-modern period that they were without some standing in that society.