For those who may not have been following the Jaffrelot Christophe saga, a permanent pox in this world who is profoundly Hinduphobic and pro peaceful. He criticises the freedom of expression in India and at the same time has refused to release the recording of the incident below, read all
https://twitter.com/ajitdatta/status/17 ... 9312382125
Wrote
"Ok folks, another update on the
@sanjeevsanyal
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@jaffrelotc
debate, the footage of which Sciences Po has been withholding from the public domain.
I was wondering what it was about Sanjeev's content that irked them so much and prevented them from releasing the video. So I decided to find out.
Apparently, there was one argument that Sanjeev made during the debate which seems to have rubbed some people, especially Jaffrelot, the wrong way. Note that this was a debate about the recent efforts to rewrite history in India. Essentially, Sanjeev conducted a little thought experiment. He reminded his audience of France's Vichy regime, an independent French government that the Nazi occupiers had propped up to rule France in their stead. Sanjeev asked his audience to imagine if the Vichy regime had lasted for a few decades, and had rewritten French history with the intention of establishing their own legitimacy. Then he told his audience that this is pretty much what happened in India - the brutal occupiers propped up an independent Indian government of collaborators, which went on to last for decades and peddled its own version of Indian history.
The audience was stunned with this analogy, because it completely destroyed the way the entire debate had been framed. Most of them realised that the recent efforts to rewrite history were in fact a course correction.
There are many reasons why this might have irked Jaffrelot and his ilk. For one, Jaffrelot and his ilk have made careers perpetuating the collaborator version of Indian history. What good are institutions like Sciences Po if they cannot even serve as a platform for Western narratives about former Western colonies? But is there more than what meets the eye here? Perhaps something about the Vichy regime that made some people in the room very uncomfortable? We'll find out soon."
https://twitter.com/ajitdatta/status/17 ... 9312382125
Wrote
"Ok folks, another update on the
@sanjeevsanyal
-
@jaffrelotc
debate, the footage of which Sciences Po has been withholding from the public domain.
I was wondering what it was about Sanjeev's content that irked them so much and prevented them from releasing the video. So I decided to find out.
Apparently, there was one argument that Sanjeev made during the debate which seems to have rubbed some people, especially Jaffrelot, the wrong way. Note that this was a debate about the recent efforts to rewrite history in India. Essentially, Sanjeev conducted a little thought experiment. He reminded his audience of France's Vichy regime, an independent French government that the Nazi occupiers had propped up to rule France in their stead. Sanjeev asked his audience to imagine if the Vichy regime had lasted for a few decades, and had rewritten French history with the intention of establishing their own legitimacy. Then he told his audience that this is pretty much what happened in India - the brutal occupiers propped up an independent Indian government of collaborators, which went on to last for decades and peddled its own version of Indian history.
The audience was stunned with this analogy, because it completely destroyed the way the entire debate had been framed. Most of them realised that the recent efforts to rewrite history were in fact a course correction.
There are many reasons why this might have irked Jaffrelot and his ilk. For one, Jaffrelot and his ilk have made careers perpetuating the collaborator version of Indian history. What good are institutions like Sciences Po if they cannot even serve as a platform for Western narratives about former Western colonies? But is there more than what meets the eye here? Perhaps something about the Vichy regime that made some people in the room very uncomfortable? We'll find out soon."
Statistics: Posted by Lisa — 28 Apr 2024 23:41