Faisal Devji – Gandhi and his Speechless Politics
The Department of History, Kirori Mal College in collaboration with the Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) organised a series of webinars upon the theme – The Relevance of Mahatma Gandhi in the 21 st Century : Philosophies, Political ideas and Socio-Spiritual Dimensions from the 2 nd to the 7 th of October, 2020. The 3rd day of this webinar series was graced by Prof. Faisal Devji. Devji's multidisciplinary work grounds empirical historical issues in philosophical questions. He has taught at The New School in New York City as well as at Yale University. Since 2009, Devji is University Reader in Modern South Asian History, Oxford University. He also is a senior fellow at the Institute for Public Knowledge (New York University) and Yves Oltramar Chair at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. He published The Impossible Indian: Gandhi and the Temptations of Violence, by Hurst & Co. in March 2011. Professor Devji talked in detail...