Dipesh Chakrabarty. Indian Modernity: Once Colonial, Now Global.

[@malebitsatimbuktu3352]

Great talk: takes me back to the Dlomo-Vilakazi “modernise tradition, or to traditionalise modernity" debate.

[@schizoable]

A remarkably lucid talk. It gives rise to an interesting point regarding the 'return' of the term "civilisation", especially viz. two crucial retrospective junctures (1) Huntington's thesis which would have been retrospectively available to the speaker (but which is curiously absent in the talk), and (2) Nial Fergusson's recent book (2011) which, while not available to the speaker at the time of the talk, picks up the term "civilisation" from the tradition to which Huntington belongs. Cont.above

[@IsaacWebers]

Great presentation Dipesh.

[@pinturoy1340]

It is always pleasure to listen to u sir

[@schizoable]

With a retrospectie gaze: How is the term "civilisation" being appropriated by a Neo-Liberal agenda? How are old colonial/Imperial imaginings of "civilisation" emerging in contemporary Western modernities and is the need to excavate earlier anti-colonial/inperial imaginings of the term "civilisation" a necessary effort for movements resistant to forces wedded to a Neo-Liberal globalisational discourse?

[@sagivesir7626]

Very much informative session Thank you so much Sir.

[@benjamingeorgecoles8060]

To me it seems both a little arbitrary and very appealing to say that capacity for self-criticism (or for taking criticism) is a defining/necessary feature of a civilisation... certainly it is a vital mark of maturity in an individual. (I often think that about the Chinese Communist Party, for instance - that there's something very childish about its attitude to criticism of it.)

[@MegaTambourineman]

M N Roy is missing in the discourse! Only Vivekananda and Tagore ??

[@hailusheleme6328]

Really I am impressed with the presentation, but the imperfections of post colonial are not solely Indian; it also includes African, thus, on such like occasion, it is better to use some examples from Africa.

[@diegoquirozmolina9777]

And latín América, but he speak since His context.

[@politics4270]

❤

[@FuntaDan]

hi dipesh

[@bhagabatnayak8316]

Thanks to ... for showcasig India's stregth and weakness of Hindu way of thinking the cultre of decency in ptactice . But without caring for such intimate aspect in Hindu /Indian way of thinking and sentiment on Valentine Day and focusing Indian attitude adversely appears to be motivated . Can such learned speaker ever be able to gather his courage to speak about civilizational legacy of his accepted civilization by showcasing George Floyd's death.