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Episode 9: Interview with Ole Birk Laursen: M. P. T. Acharya, 'We are Anarchists! Anarchism, Pacifism, and the Indian Independence Movement'
This episode is a conversation with Ole Birk Laursen about his work on the fascinating Indian anarchist M.P.T. Acharya. We discuss Acharya's life in Europe, the USA and India, as well as his views on Indian nationalism and figures including Mahatma Gandhi and founder of the Indian Communist Party M.N. Roy.
For more on Ole and his work see his excellent website: https://olebirklaursen.wordpress.com/about/
Ole's edited collection of Acharya's essays 'We are Anarchists!' is available from AK Press: https://www.akpress.org/we-are-anarchists.html
See also 'Lay Down Your Arms,' a collection edited by Ole of anti-militarist, anti-Imperialist, radical essays from the 1930s, available from AK Press: https://www.akpress.org/lay-down-your-arms.html
You can also follow Ole on Twitter @OleBirkLaursen and receive extracts from M.P.T. Acharya’s life and work @MPTAcharya1
In the episode Ole mention's Nick Heath's biography of Acharya on libcom, available here: https://libcom.org/history/acharya-mpt-1887-1951
A new biography of Acharya's wife, Magda Machman is available from Academic Studies Press: https://www.academicstudiespress.com/modernbiographies/magda-nachman
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The podcast music is Stealing Orchestra & Rafael Dionísio, 'Gente da minha terra (que me mete um nojo do caralho).' Reproduced from the Free Music Archive under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License, available here:https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Stealing_Orchestra__Rafael_Dionsio/_Rafael_Dionsio_-_Uma_Desgraa_Nunca_Vem_S/Gente_da_minha_terra_que_mete_um_nojo_do_caralho
The podcast logo is an adapted version of the Left Book Club logo (1936-48), reproduced, edited and shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International licence. Original available here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Left_Book_Club_logo.png
The image in this episode is 'M.P.T. Achayra,' which is available in the public domain.
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This episode is a conversation with Ole Birk Laursen about his work on the fascinating Indian anarchist M.P.T. Acharya. We discuss Acharya's life in Europe, the USA and India, as well as his views on Indian nationalism and figures including Mahatma Gandhi and founder of the Indian Communist Party M.N. Roy.
For more on Ole and his work see his excellent website: https://olebirklaursen.wordpress.com/about/
Ole's edited collection of Acharya's essays 'We are Anarchists!' is available from AK Press: https://www.akpress.org/we-are-anarchists.html
See also 'Lay Down Your Arms,' a collection edited by Ole of anti-militarist, anti-Imperialist, radical essays from the 1930s, available from AK Press: https://www.akpress.org/lay-down-your-arms.html
You can also follow Ole on Twitter @OleBirkLaursen and receive extracts from M.P.T. Acharya’s life and work @MPTAcharya1
In the episode Ole mention's Nick Heath's biography of Acharya on libcom, available here: https://libcom.org/history/acharya-mpt-1887-1951
A new biography of Acharya's wife, Magda Machman is available from Academic Studies Press: https://www.academicstudiespress.com/modernbiographies/magda-nachman
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The podcast music is Stealing Orchestra & Rafael Dionísio, 'Gente da minha terra (que me mete um nojo do caralho).' Reproduced from the Free Music Archive under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License, available here:https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Stealing_Orchestra__Rafael_Dionsio/_Rafael_Dionsio_-_Uma_Desgraa_Nunca_Vem_S/Gente_da_minha_terra_que_mete_um_nojo_do_caralho
The podcast logo is an adapted version of the Left Book Club logo (1936-48), reproduced, edited and shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International licence. Original available here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Left_Book_Club_logo.png
The image in this episode is 'M.P.T. Achayra,' which is available in the public domain.
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