http://dagblog.com/link/reason-being-anand-patwardhan-s-film-vivek-2018-28439 Comments for "Reason Being: on Anand Patwardhan’s film "Vivek" (2018)" en http://dagblog.com/comment/268908#comment-268908 <a id="comment-268908"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/reason-being-anand-patwardhan-s-film-vivek-2018-28439">Reason Being: on Anand Patwardhan’s film &quot;Vivek&quot; (2018)</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>16-tweet thread challenging "post-colonial theory's pernicious lies" about caste in India,  as presented in a BBC article, by self-described <em>Associate professor of history, Georgetown. Views mine. Fascists/supremacists blocked. Poetry addict. </em>and author of<em> The Empire of Apostles: Religion, Accommodation and the Imagination of Empire in Early Modern Brazil and India </em>(Oxford University Press)</p> <div class="media_embed"> <blockquote height="" width=""> <p>Thanks to <a href="https://twitter.com/shankasur?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@shankasur</a>, I just read this piece on caste as a British colonial invention. Of postcolonialism theory's many pernicious lies, this is the worst. Let me break it down. 1/16<a href="https://t.co/eRmT5FfVo3">https://t.co/eRmT5FfVo3</a></p> — Ananya Chakravarti (@achakrava) <a href="https://twitter.com/achakrava/status/1141945588482625536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 21, 2019</a></blockquote> </div> <p> </p> </div></div></div> Sat, 22 Jun 2019 05:19:02 +0000 artappraiser comment 268908 at http://dagblog.com