Rahul Sagar returns to Grand Tamasha to talk to Milan about the first treatise on statecraft produced in modern India and the man behind them, Madhava Rao.
Regular Grand Tamasha listeners will recall that Milan had the scholar Rahul Sagar on the podcast several months ago to talk about his new book, To Raise a Fallen People: How Nineteenth-Century Indians Saw Their World and Shaped Ours.
That book was a look at the nineteenth-century intellectual roots of India’s foreign policy strategy and its approach to great power politics. And now Rahul has another book out—this one is called, The Progressive Maharaja: Sir Madhava Rao’s Hints on the Art and Science of Government.
Rahul returns to the podcast this week to talk to Milan about an important but largely forgotten set of lectures that represented the first treatise on statecraft produced in modern India. Plus. Milan and Rahul talk about the legacy of India’s princely states, the unique historical figure of Madhava Rao, and why the latter’s treatise has been largely ignored—until today.
On August 15, 2020, India celebrated its 73rd birthday. To reflect on the state of Indian democracy and to kick off the podcast’s fourth season, Pratap Bhanu Mehta (https://twitter ... Read more
On August 15, 2020, India celebrated its 73rd birthday. To reflect on the state of Indian democracy and to kick off the podcast’s fourth season, Pratap Bhanu Mehta (https://twitter.com/pbmehta) joins Milan for a wide-ranging conversation on India’s past, present, and future. Pratap is a professor of political science at Ashoka University (https://www.ashoka.edu.in/leadership_team#!/pratap-bhanu-mehta-624) and a contributing editor and columnist at the Indian Express (https://indianexpress.com/profile/columnist/pratap-bhanu-mehta/) . He is a noted author, scholar, and commentator, not to mention arguably India’s finest public intellectual (https://openthemagazine.com/open-minds-2009-2019/public-intellectuals-pratap-bhanu-mehta-52-shashi-tharoor-63-swapan-dasgupta-63-ramachandra-guha-61/) . Read more
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