Scaling Up Satyagraha: Miscalculation and Discovery
In-person
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November 8, 2024 | 2:00PM - 4:00PM
This event will take place in-person in room 208N, North House, 1 Devonshire Place, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
Join us for the annual B.N. Pandey Memorial Lecture at the Centre for South Asian Studies, Asian Institute.
About the Event:
The violence that accompanied Gandhi’s first experiments in mass satyagraha (1919-1922) provoked a theoretical and practical crisis. If Gandhi could not scale up satyagraha, he would have to give up on satyagraha or mass politics or both. This lecture will look at how Gandhi navigated his way out of this dilemma.
About the Speaker:
Karuna Mantena is a Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and co-director of the Conference for the Study of Political Thought (CSPT). She is the author of Alibis of Empire: Henry Maine and the Ends of Liberal Imperialism (2010) and currently finishing a book on Gandhi and the politics of nonviolence.
Sponsored by the Centre for South Asian Studies, Asian Institute