Book Discussion on 'Competing Nationalisms: The Sacred and Political Life of Jagat Narain Lal'
Channel: Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
Date: 2022-02-16

Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
and Janki Devi Memorial College
invite you to a Book Discussion on 

Competing Nationalisms
The Sacred and Political Life of Jagat Narain Lal

by Rajshree Chandra

Discussants: Apoorvanand|Aditya Nigam

Chair: Antara Datta

Saturday, 15 January 2022, 5.30 pm IST
The discussion will be held on Zoom
Link: https://bit.ly/3t30p9U
Meeting ID: 853 6379 9662
Passcode: csdsdelhi

Competing Nationalisms is more than a political biography of Jagat Narain Lal-now forgotten by history but once an influential member of the Indian freedom movement. The book travels with Jagat Babu on his journey through four pathways-Ascetic, Hindu Nationalist, Anti-Colonial and Civic nationalisms. In these competing political pursuits lay Indian nationalism’s own fraught relationship with questions of identity, faith and nationhood. Importantly, in Jagat Narain Lal’s small story lies a bigger history of Indian Nationalism as well as a tale that speaks to the present.

Rajshree Chandra is Professor of Political Science, Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi.

Antara Datta is Associate Professor of English, Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi.

Apoorvanand is Professor of Hindi, Faculty of Arts, University of Delhi.

Aditya Nigam is Professor at Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi.