Back to Events of Week No. 45: Monday 07th November 2022 to Sunday 13th November 2022
Thursday | 04:15 PM | The Reunification of Hindusthan?: V.D. Savarkar on Hindu Pasts and Hindutva Futures Hybrid event Prof. Dr. Vinayak Chaturvedi, University of California Irvine (USA) On July 1, 1947, V.D. Savarkar delivered a speech entitled ‘Protest Against the Vivisection of Hindusthan’ in which he argued that the forthcoming ‘Partition’ was only going to be a temporary phenomenon. He reminded his audience that Hindu history was full of examples in which Hindus had faced many emergencies in the past—dating back to antiquity—but they had historically persevered to overcome all national crises. He argued that the ‘Partition’ would one day be remembered as an aberration of modern history following the resurrection of a new Hindu Empire. This paper explains that Savarkar’s interpretation that ‘Hindutva is a history’ provides an important insight about the need for Hindus to understand their history in order to imagine a Hindutva future that would reunite all Hindus within the same nation, territory, and map. Savarkar argued that the task of this reunification would require a state of perpetual war between Hindus and Muslims. Through an examination of Savarkar’s key writings on history, historiography, and historical methodology, this paper traces Savarkar’s ideas about Hindutva, violence, and the politics of history. Address HCTS 400.02.12 Voßstr. 2 69115 Heidelberg Homepage Event https://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/history/kolloquium/kolloquium.php Organizer Südasien-Institut Homepage Organizer http://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de Contact Abteilung Geschichte Südasiens Contact URL https://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/history/kolloquium/kolloquium.php Registration URL https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUrc-mhrD8oGtKjND_L52YSrZlisL_tnL9c Alle Termine der Veranstaltung 'Colloquium Series: New Interventions in the History of Partition ': As 2022 marks 75 years after partition we tune into some recent interventions into Partition Studies to assess the state of the field. Please join us online to hear these speakers share with us thoughts about their work on partition, from a range of perspectives. Thursday 20th October 2022, 04:15 PM Problematic Subalterns: How Partition Refugees Negotiated State Policies Dr. Uditi Sen, University of Nottingham (United Kingdom), School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies Thursday 03rd November 2022, 04:15 PM A Future that Never Came: Ambedkar in the Eve of Partition Dr. Jesús F. Cháirez-Garza, University of Manchester (United Kingdom), School of Arts, Languages and Cultures Thursday 10th November 2022, 04:15 PM The Reunification of Hindusthan?: V.D. Savarkar on Hindu Pasts and Hindutva Futures Prof. Dr. Vinayak Chaturvedi, University of California Irvine (USA) |