In this episode of Nous Network, Ali Javed speaks with Dr. Shamsul Islam, a leading scholar of religious nationalism whose work critically examines the ideological foundations of the RSS, Hindutva, and the politics of the Hindu Rashtra. Drawing on decades of archival research, Dr. Islam explains …
1:31Lala Lajpat Rai’s advocacy of separating Muslim-majority regions within India reflects early traces of the “Two Nation” idea. It explains how a particular version of nationhood shaped certain pre-independence political imaginations. Professor Shamsul Islam was candid in his latest podcast with Al…
0:37As per Historian RC Majumdar, Aurobindo Ghosh’s grandfather, Raj Narayan Basu was the first who introduced the two-nation idea nearly half a century before Jinnah, says Professor Shamsul Islam in his podcast with Ali Javed.
1:31Savarkar’s punyabhoomi–pitrubhoomi test creates a paradox: even the diaspora — and pilgrims to Kailash–Mansarovar — could fall outside the idea of Akhand Bharat. Prof. Shamsul Islam breaks it down.
2:03What does the RSS really want India to become? Dr. Shamsul Islam joins Ali Javed to break down Hindutva’s ideas, claims, and the politics shaping India today.
56:39In the first episode of Emerging Perspectives, Sania Ismailee joins Wardah Beg for a conversation about the philosophical questions that lie beneath India’s debate on the Uniform Civil Code. For eight years, through her PhD research, Sania examined the UCC through the questions of secularism and …
1:13:08How independent is the judiciary in India today? And what happens when citizens begin to lose confidence in the institutions meant to protect their rights?
2:44:36In this conversation, Dr. Harish S. Wankhede joins Ali Javed to examine the political and cultural legacy of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar and the evolution of the Dalit movement. They discuss how Ambedkar imagined Dalits as political subjects at a time when they were denied even basic human dignity, and how…
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