Episode 80: India is a Fascist state.

This is Episode 80 of the State of the Theory Podcast. Politics. Power. Popular Culture. And other stuff, probably. In this series, we’re like super nerdy philosophical DJs: mashing up Serious Academic Questions with the most topical news and trends in pop culture. Each week, we’ll tackle a new topic and collide it with ‘critical theory’ (we’re pretty loose with our definitions, though, so expect the unexpected). Our aim is to destroy the stuff we know, explore the stuff we don’t and unsettle everything we think we know about the world. We take the obvious, the commonsensical, the certain, and then we rip it all to shreds. We are your theory doctors and we are always on call. This week we re-visit the rising tide of Fascism in India and explore the narratives of history at play. We look at partition, independence and nation-building in the immediate post-independence period and interrogate the narrative of secularism that has been associated with postcolonial India. You can listen to Iqbal Bano’s rendition of Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s ghazal “Hum Dekhenge” here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxtgsq5oVy4 State of the Theory is brought to you by Hannah Fitzpatrick (@drhfitz) and Anindya Raychaudhuri (@DrAnindyaR) Find us on Facebook (www.facebook.com/stateofthetheorypodcast) or Tweet us @TheoryDoctors