Entretien
Chapitres
Notice
Lieu de réalisation
Maison Suger
Sous-titrage
English (Affichés par défaut)
Langue :
Anglais
Crédits
Tripurdaman Singh (Intervention), Adeel Hussain (Intervention)
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©FMSH2024
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Droit commun de la propriété intellectuelle
DOI : 10.60527/21r0-9b06
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Tripurdaman Singh, Adeel Hussain. FMSH. (2024, 24 avril). Nehru, les débats qui ont fait l'Inde , in Interviews d'auteurs. [Vidéo]. Canal-U. https://doi.org/10.60527/21r0-9b06. (Consultée le 25 avril 2025)
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So, Nehru was one of the leading figures of India's nationalist struggle and he was then India's first Prime Minister. As India's first Prime Minister, he had a huge role, a decisive role in shaping the new country's identity, its foreign policy, its relationship with Pakistan and also its kind of outlook towards the world. So in that sense, he was influential not just in India, like foundational to the creation of India, but also influential world over in shaping India's outlook to the world and its place in the world. And he's also very relevant now in Indian politics. He is a figure of great controversy. His legacy is being questioned like never before.  Absolutely. And maybe just to add very briefly, Nehru was also an intellectual. In what was then known as the Third World, you had that quite frequently where you had politicians who were doing great things like bringing their nations into liberations after colonisation. At the same time, they were also thinking about society, about politics and what to do in the 21st century in this new global age. And Nehru was one of the foremost global thinkers, if not the first global thinker who was, you know, futurising the past in a new way.  So for us, it was because of how controversial Nehru has become and how contested his ideas have become. For us, this represented a way of really getting to grips with how his ideas were formed and how they really made their way in the public sphere and created, in a sense, space for themselves. Because Nehru, you must remember, before he became this ultra-dominant figure in India, in his early years, he was really forced to contend with other similarly positioned figures and kind of champion his ideas. And for us to really look at those exchanges and to figure out how Nehru's ideas came to be what they be and how they came to become dominant, this, we found, was the most effective method of getting to the heart of the issues concerned. Particularly, in our cases, they represented, in a sense, the most honest and the most in-depth exchange of ideas that really happened in the run-up to independence and in the early years of independence. And they are relevant not just to India, but also to South Asia, especially more widely, and especially so for Pakistan.  And maybe also just to add a little bit, whenever you have these founding fathers, people who birthed nations, there's a lot of commentary that happens about their lives and their views. And the further you move away from the time period where they lived, the more the differentiation between what is being commented upon and where they stood blurs. So we felt that that had really happened with Nehru. There's like hundreds of people who've written commentaries on Nehru and what he thought, but nobody was going back to the original letters. So we thought, like, why not bring them back into the public sphere and have people read and be able to form an opinion by themselves by reading those exchanges? And we picked those exchanges strategically by highlighting exactly the flash points that are relevant to Indian politics today.  The book moves into one of the foremost debates that Nehru had with a Muslim scholar called Muhammad Iqbal. Muhammad Iqbal is seen as one of the sort of philosophical founding fathers of Pakistan, the nation state that emerges at the same time as India in the nor…

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