Nationalism and Democracy in India Lecture: https://youtu.be/5ZvXmBp4Low?t=558 Pratap Bhanu Mehta, May 15, 2024
The UC Davis Middle East/South Asia Studies Program presents the India at the Crossroads Lecture: "Nationalism and Democracy in India" delivered by Professor Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Laurence S. Rockefeller Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching from Princeton University.
Discussion and Questions with Ashutosh Varshney and Pratap Bhanu Mehta https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foY80_G5b1U Camden Conferences Apr 11, 2024
A Q&A session from the 2024 Camden Conference following talks by Princeton Professor Pratap Bhanu Mehta, "India's Post-Colonial History," and Brown Professor Ashutosh Varshney, "India's Politics and Governance." Moderated by American Public Media's David Brancaccio.
Navigating our Times : Keynote Address by Pratap Bhanu Mehta | G5A Sep 1, 2023 https://youtu.be/n0sYaDukpBE?t=487 Should Art 2022 | G5A Culture Festival
Keynote Address by Pratap Bhanu Mehta | Navigating our Times
Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s leading academics, and the Laurence S Rockefeller Visiting Professor at Princeton University. Dr Mehta delivered the keynote address to open this edition of our culture festival Should Art 2022. Here is a thought-provoking lecture on India’s social and cultural upheaval, and the unique abilities and opportunities that India has in moving forward into the future. He was joined by Kalpana Sharma in conversation.
भारतीय लोकतंत्र का रिपोर्ट कार्ड। The state of our Democracy ft. Pratap Bhanu Mehta
Puliyabaazi Hindi Podcast on Politics & Policy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng7HVkQy8zQ
Aug 31, 2023 Puliyabaazi Hindi Podcast पुलियाबाज़ी हिंदी पॉडकास्ट
For the 200th episode of Puliyabaazi, we discuss the state of India’s democracy with one of the most prominent public intellectuals of our times, Pratap Bhanu Mehta. Is India truly an outlier? What are the root causes of the political and social changes we are witnessing today? How do we look at the issue of the Uniform Civil Code? We discussed many such questions that puzzle us with Dr. Mehta in this thought-provoking Puliyabaazi. Do listen in and share your thoughts and comments with us.
इस हफ़्ते, एक ख़ास पुलियाबाज़ी हमारे समय के एक प्रमुख बुद्धिजीवी प्रताप भानु मेहता जी के साथ। क्या भारत वास्तव में एक अपवाद है? आज हम जो राजनीतिक और सामाजिक परिवर्तन देख रहे हैं, उन
Burden Of Democracy Paperback – January 1, 2017 by Pratap Bhanu Mehta (Author)
Pratap Bhanu Mehtareminds us what a bold experiment bringing democracy to a largely illiterate and unpropertied India was. He argues that the sphere of politics has truly created opportunities for people to participate in society. Looking at various facts, he also finds that persistent social inequality on the one hand and a mistaken view of the state's proper function and organization on the other have modified and hindered the workings of democracy and its effects in innumerable ways. Posting the quest for self-respect as democracy's deepest aspiration, this essay explores how inequality and the crisis of accountability have together impeded collective action to achieve such an end. To recover this sense of moral well-being and responsibility, Mehta suggests, is the core of the democratic challenge before us.
Optimistic, lively and closely argued, The Burden of Democracy offers a new ideological imagination that throws light on our discontents. By returning to the basics of democracy it serves to illuminate our predicament, even while perceiving the broad contours for change.