India Colonised

Hello and Welcome everyone to India Colonised A Podcast dedicated to Sout Asia’s Colonial history. I am your host Omer Haq and today on our next episode of guftagu we have with us Dr Kate Imy.

In His groundbreaking study, SherAli Tareen presents the most comprehensive and theoretically engaged work to date on what is arguably the most long-running, complex, and contentious dispute in modern Islam: the Barelvī-Deobandī polemic. The Barelvī and Deobandī groups are two normative orientations/reform movements with beginnings in colonial South Asia. Almost two hundred years separate the beginnings of this polemic from the present. Its spectre, however, continues to haunt the religious sensibilities of postcolonial South Asian Muslims in profound ways, both in the region and in diaspora communities around the world. Here is my conversation with Dr Sher Ali Tareen about his book Defending Muhammed in Modernity. Listen to our conversation on his intellectual journey and the journey of writing this book, including how we can engage with his work in relevance to today's world. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter handle: @Indiacolonised or visit us on www.indiacolonised.com. Don’t forget to visit our website for book recommendations and a complete reading list if you want to read more on India’s Modern History!  SherAli Tareen hosts New Books in Islamic Studies : https://newbooksnetwork.com/hosts/profile/1d16c8c8-d755-4cdb-9909-ecbf4bc5c37d  Suggested talk by Dr Sher Ali Tareen : Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship after Empire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH9lHQ33aeg&t=362s

Playssey by Sudeep Chakravarti is an absolutely engaging and entertaining book, written with details of the intrigues vanity and unriddling the playing of economics and politics of the time, He has wonderfully delineated the cast of characters from the prejudiced and perceived conceptions.  and dusted the layered narratives over centuries that have passed since. Here is my conversation with Mr Suddep Chakravarti on his book Playssey.

Today in our second Guftagu we have with us Dr Rohit De Discussing with us his book the People's Constituion- Law and Everyday Life in the Indian Republic (Princeton University Press)

Our special and first guest to our series of interviews- Guftagu Dr Diniyar  Patel, is an  Assistant Professor of History at the S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research in Mumbai. Previously, he taught in the Department of History at the University of South Carolina. He teaches courses on modern South Asia, the Indian nationalist movement, and the British Empire. Most of his research has focused on the life and career of Dadabhai Naoroji (1825-17), who, according to Dr Patel, is arguably the most significant Indian nationalist leader before Gandhi. Naoroji was one of the founders of the Indian National Congress, became the first Indian elected to the British Parliament in 1892, and, in 1906, declared swaraj or self-government to be the policy of the Indian National Congress. In 2015, He received his PhD in History from Harvard University. His biography on Dadabhai Naoroji, Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism, was published by Harvard University Press in May 2020.

Dr Patel's academic research focuses on the Indian nationalist movement, Bombay/Mumbai, and the Parsi Zoroastrian community. He has received two Fulbright fellowships and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities for his research.

During the interview, we will discuss Dr Patel's research interests, academic and intellectual journey, and the journey of writing his first book, Dadabhai Naoroji. (In this podcast episode, )We will talk about the life and struggles of the pioneer of Indian Nationalism and various intrigues of his lesser-known public life.

Imperialist ideology seems to threaten the world more than ever today. Particularly the nations of Asia, Africa, Latin America and especially the middle east. Even India in its colonial past has been severely affected by British imperialism --- whose aftermaths are visible to date.

One of the revolutionary leaders who represented the fight against the idea of imperialism was Bhagat Singh. His brief life is marked by his radicalised resistance to Imperialism and the ideas of capitalism, communalism, and the caste system.

Anglo-Muhammadan Law is a mixture of English and Islamic laws, concepts, institutions, and jurisprudence that developed in British colonial India between the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries. Although not an official designation, “Anglo-Muhammadan law” came to be used as a term of convenience to distinguish this legal system from both the English and Islamic law.

This law was an early effort to enforce Islamic law and is of importance to scholars and practitioners who are interested in contemporary efforts to institutionalize both Islamic criminal and civil law.

The extreme face of communalism started taking a definite shape after 1937. While there were instances from the past that paved the way for communalism to take such a fascist form, regardless of nationalist leaders trying their best to unite Hindus and Muslims of the country. In this episode, we attempt to bring out the explanations of what drove communalism to keep transitioning into a more violent form and how even nationalist leaders undesirably gave into it. We shall also look into the major controversies of the present that encircle INC and leaders who were at the forefront for indirectly giving into shaping the structure of unrest.

This episode continues to dive into the history of communalism in India and how it shaped the nation's social character. In the struggle of bringing Hindus and Muslims together, nationalist leaders gave way to communalism to spread its roots. Thus failing to bring the communal political ideology in accommodation with the secular political ideology. This episode also traces how the communal question was being attempted to tackle by the existing Nationalist forces.

India was not always a land of such constant communal clashes; the polarised hatred present in our world today finds its origins in our time under our British rulers. British’s communal policies, demands of minorities, and the reaction of the majority all give rise to communalism in India. Join us as we try to explore the origins of communal uprisings and the increase of differences in the country’s social fabric.