History of British India [Lec 20]

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Actual lecture starts at 9:00.

[@SuperKevjack]

Sir, Thank you very much for the lectures! I appreciate your effort! It was wonderful! I wish and pray that you post a more recent lecture series on the same topics! I wonder what new things you have incorporated into them now? Thank you once again and I wish you a long, prosperous, and successful life!

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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)

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[@achujayan7366]

Sir, thank you for posting.

[@anurag4733]

Centralizing the so vast and diverse freedom struggle around Gandhi is in no way justifiable.