Indianity and Modernity _ Ravi Sinha

[ YouTube links of Ravi Sinha’s Informal talk in Lucknow in April 2025 on “Indianity and Modernity”.  Credits to Kumar Sauvir for recording, editing and posting. The title and intro are also by him ]

Part 1: भूखे-कंगालों का नेता नेहरू। खाये, पिये, छके का मोदी

 

Part 2: दलित, स्त्री, वाम जैसे आंदोलन भारतीयता में असफल

Part 3: भक्ति आंदोलन से ज्ञान, तर्क, दर्शन, सरलता को खदेड डाला

Class, Inequality, and the Current Political Moment in China and India _...

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Democracy Dialogues Series 39

Theme: Class, Inequality, and the Current Political Moment in China and India

Speaker : Professor Vamsi Vakulabharanam

Co-Director of the Asian Political Economy Program and Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Time and Date: 6 PM (IST) Sunday, 11th May 2025

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Democracy Dialogues Series 39: Class, Inequality, and the Current Political Moment in China and India

 Democracy Dialogues Series 39

Organised by New Socialist Initiative

Theme : Class, Inequality, and the Current Political Moment in China and India

Speaker : 

Prof Vamsi Vakulabharanam

Co-Director of the Asian Political Economy Program and Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Time and Date : 

6 PM (IST), Sunday , 11 th May 2025  

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Theme: Class, Inequality, and the Current Political Moment in China and India

This talk is based on a recently published book by the Oxford University Press – Class and Inequality in China and India, 1950-2010. China and India have seen a significant revival over the last three decades in terms of their place in the world economy. Two and a half centuries ago, they contributed 50 percent of the world output; after suffering a decline thereafter, their share fell to a paltry 9 percent in 1950 but has since resurged to over 25 percent today. Their growth and inequality experiences diverged for three decades following India's independence (1947) and the Chinese revolution (1949). Thereafter, there are remarkable underlying similarities in the experiences of both countries, especially in terms of their rising inequality patterns analyzed through a class lens. Vamsi demonstrates that the mutual interconnectedness between Chinese and Indian growth and inequality dynamics and the transformation and evolution of global capitalism is key to understanding the within-country inequality dynamics in both countries over the 1950-2010 period. Based on this analysis of class-based inequalities, Vamsi reflects on the current political moment in both countries, from a political economy perspective.

About Speaker : Prof Vamsi Vakulabharanam

Vamsi Vakulabharanam is Co-Director of the Asian Political Economy Program and Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has previously taught at the University of Hyderabad (2008-14) and the City University of New York (2004-07). His recent research focuses on inequality in India and China and the political economy of Indian cities through the axes of gender, caste, class, and religion. In the past, he has also worked on agrarian change in developing economies, agrarian cooperatives, and the relationship between economic development and inequality. Vakulabharanam was awarded the Amartya Sen award in 2013 by the Indian Council of Social Science Research.