The 10th lecture in the Democracy Dialogues series organized by the New Socialist Initiative was delivered by PROFESSOR MRIDULA MUKHERJEE on 12 September 2021 where she spoke on ‘ NATIONALISM : THEN AND NOW’
The 10th lecture in the Democracy Dialogues Series
organised by New Socialist Initiative was delivered by Prof Mridula Mukherjee (
Retd.) on Sunday, 12 th Sepember at 6 PM ( IST). She spoke on ‘Nationalism :
Then and Now’
Prof. Mridula Mukherjee, was
associated with Centre for Historical Studies, JNU for a long time and was also
Director of Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, ( NMML), New Delhi.
Well known as a historian for her
work on the role of peasants in the Indian independence movement, she has
authored two important books on the theme, Peasants
in India’s Non-Violent Revolution (
Sage 2004) and Colonising Agriculture : Myth
of Punjab Exceptionalism ( Sage
2005). She has also coauthored books with Prof Bipan Chandra, Prof Aditya
Mukherjee on ‘India’s Struggle for Independence’ ( Penguin 2000) and ‘India After Independence‘
( Penguin 2008). The monograph ‘RSS,
School Texts and Murder of Mahatma Gandhi‘
which she has coauthored with Prof Aditya Mukherjee and Prof Sucheta Mahajan
has been widely appreciated.
In this lecture Prof Mridula
Mukherjee discussed Nationalism and its origins as a modern ideology, how
nations are historical constructs with each nation having its own distinctive
historical evolution and the emergence of two kinds of nationalism and how the
present notion of aggressive, chauvinistic nationalism is in sharp
contrast to the once evolved by the freedom struggle and how the task of
preventing the appropriation of nationalism and its creative linking to
progressive agenda is the need of the hour.
Please write to us at democracydialogues@gmail.com if you are interested in getting upadates about the
series.
The lecture series is available
on facebook.com/newsocialistinitiative.nsi as well.
( Here is a playlist of earlier
lectures in the Democracy Dialogues Series )
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