Vinayak Chaturvedi
Biographic Data
| ID | 3767008 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vinayak Chaturvedi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vinayak |
| FAMILY NAME | Chaturvedi |
| SIGNATURE | CHATURVEDI V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
C.A. Bayly’s Unfinished Business: A History of Ideas in an Old Manuscript
Violence as Civility: V.D. Savarkar and the Mahatma’s Assassination
This paper examines V.D. Savarkar’s interpretation of the place of violence within his larger arguments about civility as a way to rethink the murder of M.K. Gandhi – the Mahatma. Savarkar’s seminal work on Hindutva transformed political debate in the twentieth century by rethinking the categories of ‘Hindu’ and ‘Hindusthan.’ His contributions to the debates on civility provided an important insight: that is, violence was central to the understan…
From Oral History to Intellectual History (and the Unintended Autobiography)
This paper provides an interpretation of the Bengali Intellectuals Oral History Project as a new archive for studying the intellectual history of South Asia. It explains that an important outcome of the nexus between oral history and intellectual history is the construction of an ‘unintended autobiography’ of each subject interviewed in the project. By considering the centrality of autobiography, the paper offers insights into rethinking the meth…
Introduction: Writing history in the borderlands
The essays convened for this special issue on South Asia sit in the borderlands between social history and intellectual history. As this reference to ‘borderlands’ suggests, the authors have produc
A revolutionary's biography: The case of V D Savarkar
(2013). A revolutionary's biography: the case of V D Savarkar. Postcolonial Studies: Vol. 16, Reading Revolutionaries - Texts, Acts, and Afterlives of Political Action in Late Colonial South Asia, pp. 124-139
From Peasant Pasts to Hindutva Futures? Some Reflections on History, Politics, and Methodology
This paper considers the participation and initiation of communities once classified as criminal tribes in the violence in Gujarat in 2002. Given that their descendants continue to suffer politically and economically in post-colonial India, it is necessary to examine the role of the marginalised and subordinate communities in the making of Hindutva in the twenty-first century. Building upon debates on violence in post-colonial societies, the pape…
Rethinking Knowledge With Action: V. D. Savarkar, the Bhagavad Gita, and Histories of Warfare
This essay examines the significance of the Bhagavad Gita for V. D. Savarkar's interpretations of religion, nationalism, and the idea of Hindu India. As one of the intellectual founders of Hindu nationalism, Savarkar has emerged as the most controversial Indian political thinker of the last century, gaining notoriety for his program to ‘Hinduize Politics and Militarize Hindudom’, for his anti-Muslim and anti-Christian politics, and for his advoca…
Peasants against Gandhi: Rethinking Criminality and Nationalism in Colonial India
Peasant Pasts: History and Memory in Western India
Peasant Pasts is an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to writing histories of peasant politics, nationalism, and colonialism. Vinayak Chaturvedi's analysis provides an important intervention in the social and cultural history of India by examining the nature of peasant discourses and practices during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Through rigorous archival study and fieldwork, Chaturvedi shows that peasants in Gujarat were active in…
A Critical Theory of Subalternity: Rethinking Class in Indian Historiography
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Of peasants and publics in colonial India: Daduram's story
Daduram was a peasant who lived most of his life in the village of Chalali, located in the plains of central Gujarat in western India. He was born some time in the mid-nineteenth century into a fam
Vinayak & me: Hindutva and the politics of naming
This article examines political and intellectual influences of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar's Hindutva: Who is a Hindu? (published in 1923) on the development of nationalism in India. The article argues that contemporary political concerns about national identity raised in India have historical links that go back to Savarkar's text, especially the discourses on the politics of naming. The article considers the implications of these writings on one of…
Rethinking Knowledge With Action: V. D. Savarkar, the Bhagavad Gita, and Histories of Warfare
This essay examines the significance of the Bhagavad Gita for V. D. Savarkar's interpretations of religion, nationalism, and the idea of Hindu India. As one of the intellectual founders of Hindu nationalism, Savarkar has emerged as the most controversial Indian political thinker of the last century, gaining notoriety for his program to ‘Hinduize Politics and Militarize Hindudom’, for his anti-Muslim and anti-Christian politics, and for his advoca…
Vinayak & me: Hindutva and the politics of naming
This article examines political and intellectual influences of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar's Hindutva: Who is a Hindu? (published in 1923) on the development of nationalism in India. The article argues that contemporary political concerns about national identity raised in India have historical links that go back to Savarkar's text, especially the discourses on the politics of naming. The article considers the implications of these writings on one of…
A Critical Theory of Subalternity: Rethinking Class in Indian Historiography
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Violence as Civility: V.D. Savarkar and the Mahatma’s Assassination
This paper examines V.D. Savarkar’s interpretation of the place of violence within his larger arguments about civility as a way to rethink the murder of M.K. Gandhi – the Mahatma. Savarkar’s seminal work on Hindutva transformed political debate in the twentieth century by rethinking the categories of ‘Hindu’ and ‘Hindusthan.’ His contributions to the debates on civility provided an important insight: that is, violence was central to the understan…
Introduction: Writing history in the borderlands
The essays convened for this special issue on South Asia sit in the borderlands between social history and intellectual history. As this reference to ‘borderlands’ suggests, the authors have produc
A revolutionary's biography: The case of V D Savarkar
(2013). A revolutionary's biography: the case of V D Savarkar. Postcolonial Studies: Vol. 16, Reading Revolutionaries - Texts, Acts, and Afterlives of Political Action in Late Colonial South Asia, pp. 124-139
From Peasant Pasts to Hindutva Futures? Some Reflections on History, Politics, and Methodology
This paper considers the participation and initiation of communities once classified as criminal tribes in the violence in Gujarat in 2002. Given that their descendants continue to suffer politically and economically in post-colonial India, it is necessary to examine the role of the marginalised and subordinate communities in the making of Hindutva in the twenty-first century. Building upon debates on violence in post-colonial societies, the pape…
Vinayak & me: Hindutva and the politics of naming
This article examines political and intellectual influences of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar's Hindutva: Who is a Hindu? (published in 1923) on the development of nationalism in India. The article argues that contemporary political concerns about national identity raised in India have historical links that go back to Savarkar's text, especially the discourses on the politics of naming. The article considers the implications of these writings on one of…
Of peasants and publics in colonial India: Daduram's story
Daduram was a peasant who lived most of his life in the village of Chalali, located in the plains of central Gujarat in western India. He was born some time in the mid-nineteenth century into a fam
Peasant Pasts: History and Memory in Western India
Peasant Pasts is an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to writing histories of peasant politics, nationalism, and colonialism. Vinayak Chaturvedi's analysis provides an important intervention in the social and cultural history of India by examining the nature of peasant discourses and practices during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Through rigorous archival study and fieldwork, Chaturvedi shows that peasants in Gujarat were active in…
A Critical Theory of Subalternity: Rethinking Class in Indian Historiography
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Peasants against Gandhi: Rethinking Criminality and Nationalism in Colonial India
Rethinking Knowledge With Action: V. D. Savarkar, the Bhagavad Gita, and Histories of Warfare
This essay examines the significance of the Bhagavad Gita for V. D. Savarkar's interpretations of religion, nationalism, and the idea of Hindu India. As one of the intellectual founders of Hindu nationalism, Savarkar has emerged as the most controversial Indian political thinker of the last century, gaining notoriety for his program to ‘Hinduize Politics and Militarize Hindudom’, for his anti-Muslim and anti-Christian politics, and for his advoca…
From Peasant Pasts to Hindutva Futures? Some Reflections on History, Politics, and Methodology
This paper considers the participation and initiation of communities once classified as criminal tribes in the violence in Gujarat in 2002. Given that their descendants continue to suffer politically and economically in post-colonial India, it is necessary to examine the role of the marginalised and subordinate communities in the making of Hindutva in the twenty-first century. Building upon debates on violence in post-colonial societies, the pape…
A revolutionary's biography: The case of V D Savarkar
(2013). A revolutionary's biography: the case of V D Savarkar. Postcolonial Studies: Vol. 16, Reading Revolutionaries - Texts, Acts, and Afterlives of Political Action in Late Colonial South Asia, pp. 124-139
Introduction: Writing history in the borderlands
The essays convened for this special issue on South Asia sit in the borderlands between social history and intellectual history. As this reference to ‘borderlands’ suggests, the authors have produc
From Oral History to Intellectual History (and the Unintended Autobiography)
This paper provides an interpretation of the Bengali Intellectuals Oral History Project as a new archive for studying the intellectual history of South Asia. It explains that an important outcome of the nexus between oral history and intellectual history is the construction of an ‘unintended autobiography’ of each subject interviewed in the project. By considering the centrality of autobiography, the paper offers insights into rethinking the meth…
Violence as Civility: V.D. Savarkar and the Mahatma’s Assassination
This paper examines V.D. Savarkar’s interpretation of the place of violence within his larger arguments about civility as a way to rethink the murder of M.K. Gandhi – the Mahatma. Savarkar’s seminal work on Hindutva transformed political debate in the twentieth century by rethinking the categories of ‘Hindu’ and ‘Hindusthan.’ His contributions to the debates on civility provided an important insight: that is, violence was central to the understan…
C.A. Bayly’s Unfinished Business: A History of Ideas in an Old Manuscript
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · History (7 works) · Indian History and Philosophy (6 works) · Law (6 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (6 works) · Colonialism (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works)