Vinay Lal - Moral & Political Thought of Gandhi, Lecture 17 of 19, May 26, 2016

University of California, Los Angeles. Partition as a favorite British strategy; some details about the Partition of india.  How was the boundary drawn between what would become India and Pakistan? What was the Boundary Commission, and what was Radcliffe's role in it? The violence was not orchestrated by the state as such -- this is quite different than what happened in Rwanda, for instance.  Mass migrations and killings.  The two countries of India and Pakistan also had an agreement for the recovery of abducted women.  Where was Gandhi during the negotiations for Indian independence, on the day of independence, and in the immediate aftermath of August 15th? Refugees poured into Delhi; the city was in turmoil.  The assassination of Gandhi took place on 30 January 1948: what were the circumstances, who was the assassin, and was he part of a conspiracy as claimed by the Indian Government? Gandhi had a critique of the nation-state, the fundamental political fact of modernity; and the assassination was the revenge of the nation-state on him.  What can we say about the assassin, N. Godse? We consider Ashis Nandy's article, «Final Encounter:  On the Politics of the Assassination of Gandhi.»  What is the cultural politics of sexuality and what is the sexual politics of Indian nuclearism? Some derided Gandhi as the 'Father of Pakistan'. His last fast was perhaps the last straw for his assassin and critics. Vinay Lal is an Indian historian. He is a professor of history and Asian...