HYBRID EVENT
Janaki Bakhle, Associate Professor, Department of History, UC Berkeley
V.D. Savarkar, the principal ideologue of Hindu fundamentalism and author of “Essentials of Hindutva” — the de facto manifesto of the Hindu right — thought of himself as a poet first, and only secondly as a politician or historian. I will talk about how poetry became the critical modality of his political imagination, and why it matters for understanding the history of right wing nationalist ideology in India.