Amar Kanwar

Of Poems and Prophesies
January 12 – February 23, 2003

Thursday, January 30, 2003, 6:30 pm

Lecture

Lal is a professor of History at University of California, Los Angeles. He writes on a wide variety of subjects for periodicals in the U.S., India and Britain. Some of his recent essays have been collected in The Poetics and Politics of Dissent: Essays on Indian History and Culture. Other publications include Empire of Knowledge: Culture and Plurality in a New Global Economy and the forthcoming History of History: The Career and Politics of a Form of Knowledge in Modern India. His talk will focus on the context and latent politicization of Gandhi's death.

Gandhi's Last Words

Vinay Lal Lecture from The Renaissance Society on Vimeo.