On the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti, eminent historian Prof. Irfan Habib delivers a talk on ‘Gandhi and the National Question’ as part of the lecture series organised by the Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust in Delhi.
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Savarkar first spoke of the two-nation theory
The dispute surrounding Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s portrait from the Aligarh Muslim University has raked up many old controversies about the late founder of Pakistan. In Indian version of the history, Jinnah has always been portrayed in bad light, and his contribution to the freedom struggle has been subverted. Historian Irfan Habib talked to Tarique Anwar about the genesis of the two-nation theory.
Marx’s ‘Capital’ and the current crisis in capitalism
The first lecture, titled ‘Capital and the critique of bourgeois political economy’, was delivered on 9 September 2017 at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi. In this lecture, Professor Chandrasekhar talks about Marx’s analysis of capitalism as an inevitably transient mode of production in a constant opposition to political economists of that period, and his contributions to the Labour Theory of Value. He also discusses how Marx’s analysis does not fully examine the role of the state and the periphery as sites for primitive accumulation thus overestimating the transformative potential of capitalism.
Revisiting Capital in the age of finance
The second lecture, titled ‘Order and Anarchy in Capitalist Systems’, was delivered on 16th September’ 2017 at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi. In this, the professor talks about the various anarchic tendencies of capitalism, which culminate in a crisis due to overproduction at one pole and underconsumption at the other.
Order and anarchy in capitalist systems
The third lecture, titled ‘Revisiting Capital in the Age of Finance’, was delivered on 23rd September, 2017 at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi. In this lecture, he talks about the phases that capitalism went through since its inception.
Karl Marx’s Capital & the present
4 Lectures by Capital and the critique of bourgeois political economy at Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
The fourth lecture, titled ‘Karl Marx’s Capital & the Present’, was delivered on 30th September, 2017 at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi. In this, the professor talks about contemporary insights that can be drawn from Das Kapital after 150 years of its publication. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9jtvUEeOs8&ab_channel=NewsClickin
TALK – Capital and the Critique of Bourgeois Political Economy by Prof C.P. Chandrasekhar, JNU. Commemorating 150 years of Marx’s Capital Vol 1
70 years of Freedom
In this lecture, Irfan Habib talks about colonialism, India’s Past and the role that the British played in shaping India’s history. He also talked about the economy of the country and how it was exploited by the then ruling countries; Free trade, destruction of Indian Industries, and the opium trade — all the factors that made the British’s rule over India, different from all other kinds of regimes in India.
The Indian national movement was the greatest creation of…
Prof. Irfan Habib, distinguished historian, gave a lecture at a programme organised by SAHMAT on hundred years of Champaran satyagrah. Prof. Habib put the movement in context of Indian National Movement. According to him, it was the Champaran movement that linked the poor to the potential nationalist leadership. This linkage was among one of the most important tasks accomplished by Mahatma Gandhi.