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Gandhi’s ideas did not go unchallenged, even by those closest to his moment in history. This talk draws on the book Arguments with Gandhi, examining the ideological disagreements he had with contemporaries including Ambedkar, Lenin, Mandela, and Savarkar. What can a century of disagreement teach us about how to live now?
Using Gandhi’s legacy as a lens, the talk offers a moral and political history of the modern world, one built as much from argument as from agreement. Gandhi’s debates with his contemporaries, and later generations’ arguments with him, foreground questions we have yet to resolve: how do we resist political tyranny? How do we address discrimination based on caste, gender, and race? And how do we achieve freedom from poverty without destroying the planet along the way?
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Venue: Auditorium
Speaker
Ramachandra Guha
Ramachandra Guha was born and raised in the Himalayan foothills, studied in Delhi and Kolkata, and has lived for many years in Bengaluru. He has taught at Stanford, Oslo, Yale, the London School of Economics where he held the Phillippe Roman Chair, and the Indian Institute of Science as the Satish Dhawan Visiting Professor. He is currently Distinguished University Professor at Krea University, and holds an honorary doctorate in the humanities from Yale University. His awards include the Leopold-Hidy Prize, the Howard Milton Prize, the Elizabeth Longford Prize, the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Fukuoka Prize. His books include India after Gandhi (Macmillan/Ecco Press, 2007; third revised edition, 2023), a landmark history of the Republic, alongside The Unquiet Woods (University of California Press, 1989) and A Corner of a Foreign Field (Picador, 2002).
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