{"id":950,"date":"2022-10-26T09:25:20","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T09:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/?p=950"},"modified":"2022-10-26T09:26:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T09:26:17","slug":"vinayak-chaturvedi-hindutva-violence-and-the-politics-of-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/2022\/10\/26\/vinayak-chaturvedi-hindutva-violence-and-the-politics-of-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Vinayak Chaturvedi: &#8216;Hindutva, Violence and the Politics of History&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/qmchaturvedi.eventbrite.co.uk\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-952 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2022\/10\/20221114_SAF_Chaturvedi-725x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"725\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2022\/10\/20221114_SAF_Chaturvedi-725x1024.png 725w, https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2022\/10\/20221114_SAF_Chaturvedi-212x300.png 212w, https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2022\/10\/20221114_SAF_Chaturvedi-768x1085.png 768w, https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2022\/10\/20221114_SAF_Chaturvedi-1087x1536.png 1087w, https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2022\/10\/20221114_SAF_Chaturvedi.png 1270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 725px) 100vw, 725px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The QMUL South Asia Forum is pleased to host this in-person seminar with Vinayak Chaturvedi on his new book\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sunypress.edu\/Books\/H\/Hindutva-and-Violence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><em>Hindutva and Violence\u00a0<\/em>(SUNY Press, 2022<\/a>). The book presents an intellectual history of VD Savarkar, the most controversial Indian political thinker of the 20th century and a key architect of modern Hindu nationalism.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"s1\">Please register for this event at <a href=\"https:\/\/qmchaturvedi.eventbrite.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">QMChaturvedi.Eventbrite.co.uk\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Vinayak Chaturvedi<\/strong> is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of\u00a0<em>Peasant Pasts: History and Memory in Western India\u00a0<\/em>(UC Press, 2007) and the editor of\u00a0<em>Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial<\/em>\u00a0(Verso, 2000) and\u00a0<em>The Pandemic: Perspectives on Asia<\/em>\u00a0(AAS, 2020).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chris Moffat<\/strong> is Senior Lecturer in South Asian History at Queen Mary University of London and the author of\u00a0<em>India&#8217;s Revolutionary Inheritance: Politics and the Promise of Bhagat Singh<\/em>\u00a0(CUP, 2019).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The QMUL South Asia Forum is pleased to host this in-person seminar with Vinayak Chaturvedi on his new book\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sunypress.edu\/Books\/H\/Hindutva-and-Violence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><em>Hindutva and Violence\u00a0<\/em>(SUNY Press, 2022<\/a>). The book presents an intellectual history of VD Savarkar, the most controversial Indian political thinker of the 20th century and a key architect of modern Hindu nationalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":954,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions\/954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}