Book Launch: Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883–1966) was an intellectual, ideologue, and anticolonial nationalist leader in India’s struggle for independence from British colonial rule, one whose anti-Muslim writings exploited India’s tensions in pursuit of Hindu majority rule. Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva is the first comprehensive intellectual history of one of the most contentious political thinkers of the twentieth century.

Janaki Bakhle is professor of Indian history at the University of California, Berkeley. Her previous book was Two Men and Music: Nationalism in the making of an Indian Classical Tradition (published by Oxford), and her most recent book is on the chief ideologue of right wing Hindu nationalism, V D Savarkar. She is also working on a book called Mavericks for the Nation: Hindu Nationalism without Hindutva, on Rajaram Shastri Bhagwat and T S Shejwalkar. She has also written on secularism, feminism, surveillance and the colonial police.
Date: 2 May 2024, 17:30 (Thursday, 2nd week, Trinity 2024)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Speaker: Professor Janaki Bakhle (UC Berkeley)
Organising department: Asian Studies Centre
Organiser: Faisal Devji (St Antony's College)
Organiser contact email address: asian@sant.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Asian Studies Centre seminars and events
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Public
Editors: Belinda Clark, Clare Salter