JNU: Nationalism and India’s Uncivil War

Professors Makarand Paranjape and HS Shivaprakash in conversation with Madhavi Peters.
Aug 9, 2022
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9 February 2016: Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) erupted with ‘anti-national’ slogans. Arrests of student leaders, the shutdown of the university, a lecture series on ‘What the Nation Needs to Know’, a student’s disappearance, another’s suicide and a number of even more disruptive protests ensued.

This session is based around the book ‘JNU: Nationalism and India’s Uncivil War’, by Makarand Paranjape. Through this book, Paranjape makes a plea to transform rather than destroy JNU, as also reform higher education. This book is also a history of our times examining the multiple meanings of nationalism in our time.