Dr. Meera Nanda | Postcolonial Theory and the Making of Hindu Nationalism: The Wages of Unreason https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE3Zo0XwMQ8
On Sunday, 17 August 2025 at 15:19:01 UTC+5:30 [email protected] wrote: > Postcolonial theory came up in the context of the experiences of formerly > colonised societies, not an abstract vacuum.It was developed largely by > intellectuals from the so-called Global South (or Third World), challenging > the legacies of colonialism—racial hierarchies, economic dependence, > cultural domination, and epistemic violence (dominant groups suppressing > the expression of marginalised people). > > Postcolonial theory's power lies in its critique of empire and its ongoing > recognition of how the colonial logic continues through globalisation, > migration, and cultural production. > > It is this logic that the Religious Right has incorporated into its own > agenda to justify its controversial hegemony over domestic politics in the > India of today. > > On Sun, 17 Aug 2025 at 14:36, 'sammit khandeparker' via Goa-Research-Net < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> There is also a grave misunderstanding as to what ' Postcolonial theory' >> is. Unfortunately, the misinterpretation is endemic to the academy itself, >> and as such, it is being perpetuated on every reputable forum. Postcolonial >> theory is not a theory written after 1947 by intellectuals from the >> decolonised Global South. Postcolonial theory is a theoretical perspective >> that argues for the acknowledgement of power operating through culture, >> through language, and other forms of symbolic expressions. It argues for >> reading texts and documents against the grain. As such, the theoretical >> perspective applies to all the cultural products of all societies. Prima >> facie, the author might be in error. >> Sincerely, >> Sammit >> >> >> Dr. Sammit P. S. Khandeparkar >> PhD(Religious Studies) >> >> >> On Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 03:52:43 AM GMT+5:30, Rowena Kay >> Mascarenhas <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> Amita, thank you. Yes, two different people. >> >> FN - a mix up there, probably inadvertent. The two Meeras are different >> people, as Amita says. Meera Kosambi (d.2015) was Pune-based, lived in the >> house that her father DD Kosambi built (I'm told it is a Goa-style house), >> and her well known work is on Pandita Ramabai (published when I was at the >> OUP). >> >> Meera Nanda writes on postcolonial Hinduism but I didn't have the >> privilege of our paths crossing, though she is a well known academic in >> Delhi circles. >> >> Sounds like a good session, will try to catch it on the weekend! Thanks >> for sharing. >> >> Best >> Rowena >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Aug 16, 2025, at 5:11 AM, Amita Kanekar <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> Dear Frederick, >> >> Meera Nanda and Meera Kosambi are/were two different people. Kosambi is >> dead, while Nanda is alive and based in the US. >> >> Amita >> >> On Sat, Aug 16, 2025 at 2:12 AM Frederick Noronha <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> A important debate coming up here: The author of the book being discussed >> here is the Goan-by--origin Meera Nanda, the younger daughter of the >> historian and mathematician, D.D. Kosambi, and granddaughter of Dharmananda >> Damodar Kosambi, a Buddhist scholar and a Pāli language expert. Her mother >> was Nalini Kosambi (née Madgavkar). 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