History of British India [Lec 01]

History of British India [Lec 01] -- Upper-division undergraduate course, comprised of 20 lectures, at UCLA in the Fall Quarter 2013. Introduction to course; course requirements; some general comments on British colonization; anecdote about visit to my office of American military intelligence official; Hindu-Muslim divide in India and Western perceptions of this divide; Mark Mazower's book, SALONICA, and an understanding of ecumenical societies; the fiction of a "world citizen"; problem of American exceptionalism; English as the language of Indian elites; the use of English in Indian courts; overview of the syllabus; Ronald Inden's "Orientalist Constructions of India"; very brief remarks about Orientalism; John Malcolm's Memorandum on behavior of English officials in India; the colonization of the Indian mind
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  • @achujayan7366
    @achujayan73663 жыл бұрын

    18:05 lecture start

  • @dileepkumar-td6xv

    @dileepkumar-td6xv

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks man

  • @AlkanandaMohapatra

    @AlkanandaMohapatra

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hehehe I was wondering when it will actually start. Thanks 🙏

  • @thakara

    @thakara

    2 жыл бұрын

    God's work

  • @saipraval9301

    @saipraval9301

    2 жыл бұрын

    Dude you saved me.

  • @bablishukla8310

    @bablishukla8310

    Жыл бұрын

    Undoubtedly Most relevent comment ......

  • @amartya8234
    @amartya82343 жыл бұрын

    Never in my life, I have heard a lecture of history with such enthusiasm. Credit goes to you Professor.

  • @Abhishekyadav-uy3th
    @Abhishekyadav-uy3th2 жыл бұрын

    Who is watching from india........?

  • @sanjayvaze7729

    @sanjayvaze7729

    2 жыл бұрын

    Me , Regularly

  • @beto6323

    @beto6323

    2 жыл бұрын

    Me haha

  • @8q_en15

    @8q_en15

    Жыл бұрын

    Aspirant?

  • @gsdarpan5418

    @gsdarpan5418

    Жыл бұрын

    Me too

  • @VIKASKUMAR-ci5bq

    @VIKASKUMAR-ci5bq

    Жыл бұрын

    Y

  • @yash1071
    @yash1071 Жыл бұрын

    After watching this, I am thinking what rubbish I was studying till now. How interesting a subject can be has no limits. I want to study now. Study deeply about history, and other fields too from great teachers like you. Thank you very much Sir for providing me a better perspective to look forward to studies.

  • @dlbeertbh
    @dlbeertbh2 жыл бұрын

    I'm so happy to find this channel!! Actually, English isn't my first language, but everything is explained so well, that even I understood nearly all of the lecture!! Thanks, I'll definitely continue watching your videos

  • @nathanielreichert4638
    @nathanielreichert46386 ай бұрын

    I graduated college six years ago, and you make me miss learning, Dr Lal!

  • @KunalMehta0011
    @KunalMehta0011 Жыл бұрын

    आपका धन्यवाद करने के लिए शब्द नहीं है बहुत खूब विनय लाल जी ब

  • @CaptainHarlock-kv4zt
    @CaptainHarlock-kv4zt3 жыл бұрын

    I discover your channel today! Great stuff!!

  • @pratishsahoo3851
    @pratishsahoo38512 жыл бұрын

    What a fantabulous lecture he is!

  • @sksahinalam321
    @sksahinalam3213 жыл бұрын

    Great information ❤️ Great lecture 🔥❤️🙏👍🏼

  • @ayushipatil1315
    @ayushipatil1315 Жыл бұрын

    marking my attendance because why not, i liked the lecture!

  • @rangps
    @rangps3 жыл бұрын

    great lecture! so engaging

  • @nathanielreichert4638
    @nathanielreichert46386 ай бұрын

    Hello from four years later! You are amazing!

  • @mohammedsajeed9398
    @mohammedsajeed93982 жыл бұрын

    30:01 Absolutely true that before hindu term coined as a religious name, they were called themselves as sanatanies,vishnavies,.....

  • @ashiqkaruthedath8089
    @ashiqkaruthedath80893 жыл бұрын

    Wow, great lecture.

  • @AlkanandaMohapatra
    @AlkanandaMohapatra2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for sharing 🙏 how interesting

  • @SaidurRahmanChowdhury
    @SaidurRahmanChowdhury2 жыл бұрын

    Excellent

  • @bipinradadiyarekharadadiya2463
    @bipinradadiyarekharadadiya24632 жыл бұрын

    Good professor

  • @souravray384
    @souravray3842 жыл бұрын

    In the starting point East India Company known as Jhon company......

  • @johnsrinivasan4507
    @johnsrinivasan45072 жыл бұрын

    I would like to know what existed in India in the 200 years before British India , Professor. Only then can I understand the History of British India.

  • @user-zb3ih3vh4n

    @user-zb3ih3vh4n

    2 жыл бұрын

    Before British marathas were ruling India and before maratha Aurangzeb the mugal king. Did you know In 1700, the exchequer of the Emperor Aurangzeb reported an annual revenue of more than £100 million, or $450 million, more than ten times that of his contemporary Louis XIV of France, while controlling just 7 times the population Until British Started looting India in the name of civilization.

  • @8q_en15

    @8q_en15

    Жыл бұрын

    A politically fragmented entity that was frequently pillaged by raids from Persia and Afghanistan. Mughal power was disintegrating, Sikhs and Marathas were on the rise and British and French were competing for the market.

  • @ataraxia7439
    @ataraxia74394 ай бұрын

    What's the group of people he refers to at 34:37? Amadias? Some group of muslims?

  • @alamgir.1997
    @alamgir.19973 жыл бұрын

    Elaborate discussion

  • @Forestvibes-pb2hy
    @Forestvibes-pb2hy14 күн бұрын

    Before 10 day i am watching this for graduation exam 😂

  • @75snambi
    @75snambi4 ай бұрын

    He is not even mentioning the marathas. They were one of the prime reasons for the decline of Mongol (aka mogul) oppressors.

  • @Gaurav-rh3qe

    @Gaurav-rh3qe

    Ай бұрын

    Bro this lecture series is about British India

  • @sidvats21

    @sidvats21

    16 күн бұрын

    abe champu british india mein maratha kaise aayega

  • @skumar093728
    @skumar0937283 жыл бұрын

    Professor , it seems you are biased, may be there are reasons for your biases, any way, it was a great introductory lecture, I really liked it, it was not at all boring...I am just interested in understanding why you guys have such views... for that reason I planning to watch whole lecture series...hoping other contents are as interesting as the introductory lecture...I was looking for a complete indian history lecture series from some indian university professors, but could not find one...

  • @yjain5673

    @yjain5673

    3 жыл бұрын

    Might be the fact that you're biased and that's why you think he is

  • @dimplemaini

    @dimplemaini

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@yjain5673 Might be the fact that you’re biased that you think he’s biased as he thinks the professors biased 🤌

  • @yjain5673

    @yjain5673

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@dimplemaini might be

  • @lifescatalyst6311
    @lifescatalyst63113 жыл бұрын

    #SpeakUpForSSCRailwayStudents

  • @gauravsinghrajpoot2070

    @gauravsinghrajpoot2070

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yaha bhi aa gye bhai 😂

  • @lifescatalyst6311

    @lifescatalyst6311

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@gauravsinghrajpoot2070 Ya

  • @rohitcoc108

    @rohitcoc108

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@gauravsinghrajpoot2070 oo bhai...🤣🤣🤣

  • @haveyoumetom813

    @haveyoumetom813

    2 жыл бұрын

    WTF

  • @kpsingh8323
    @kpsingh83233 жыл бұрын

    death of Aurangzeb was because of sikh guru. guru gobind singh ji.. 👍

  • @indiansaresuperioralienrac3615

    @indiansaresuperioralienrac3615

    3 жыл бұрын

    Jay govind

  • @tulsibisen1080

    @tulsibisen1080

    2 жыл бұрын

    Zafarnama

  • @marvin1473

    @marvin1473

    2 жыл бұрын

    @Kay Ray then why he's teaching rubbish

  • @arkendubanerjee5218
    @arkendubanerjee52182 жыл бұрын

    I prefer teachers who are not bossy.

  • @djoooop
    @djoooop3 жыл бұрын

    He takes a 'slightly different' view all the time. Talks AS IF violence was some kind of European invention, ignoring centuries of bloodshed. Another edgy opinion he gives about afro-americans not being full citizens without even citing an argument.

  • @SoapIsPeople

    @SoapIsPeople

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@manubhatt3 This is quite simply not true, and is indicative of a viewpoint steeped in racial spite. Look up Assyrian and neo-Babylonian conquests and their treatment of the Jews and other subjugated races, hell, even most Mongol campaigns and their treatment of any racial group whom they could not or had no desire to assimilate. Racial violence is as old as race, most conquest-based empires have employed it, and to try and frame it as the "white man's sin" is myopic and gross, and will not age well in the context of a future world history. There is more compassion hidden in exhaustive nuance than there is in casting lazy aspersions without proper evidence. I'm sorry human history can't conform to your racism.

  • @jimjiminyjaroo300

    @jimjiminyjaroo300

    3 жыл бұрын

    There is no doubt African Americans are second class citizens. As a non American, it’s so easy to see that.

  • @shsh-rf7mi

    @shsh-rf7mi

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@djoooop I would recommend the book , India Persianate age by Richard m Eaton to understand why the conquest by Afghans and Mughals were more on political grounds than on religion lines. Even destruction of temples were a political act and was done even by local indian rulers as well . So though I agree that it was violent ,thy did not have the British idea of superiority over the local populace

  • @djoooop

    @djoooop

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@shsh-rf7mi Thanks for your recommendation. Without trying to be dismissive, I do want to say that here you have a (contemporary) western professor who disagrees with the Indian PM for example, who reduced the medieval period to “1200 years of slavery” (from the Indian perspective). So to me it’s a bit weird to say that those older historical works were written by biased westerners and we should now ignore not only them but also the statements of Indians themselves, politically motivated or not. All this in exchange for another western view that seems to practice moral relativism mostly when its suits their narrative. Eventhough the conquest of India wasn’t as destructive to the Indian culture as the conquest of the Americas to their native populations, I’d argue that political and religious motivations were heavily intertwined in both histories.

  • @rg8071

    @rg8071

    2 жыл бұрын

    I disagree with his argument that African Americans are not as socio-economically advanced as white Americans, or in his words not full citizens, because of oppression. It's a non sequitur. After he makes that claim, he then turns around and says basically that Barack Obama's election to the presidency isn't evidence that he's wrong. Question: has any other country in the world with a white majority of citizens ever elected a mulatto president?

  • @philhudson3619
    @philhudson36193 жыл бұрын

    Too woke

  • @goodluck5642

    @goodluck5642

    2 жыл бұрын

    You’re watching a lecture about colonization...

  • @philhudson3619

    @philhudson3619

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@goodluck5642 your mom

  • @8q_en15

    @8q_en15

    Жыл бұрын

    Don't get triggered by everything that doesn't confirm your opinions.

  • @philhudson3619

    @philhudson3619

    Жыл бұрын

    @@8q_en15 what a poor critique. That's basically just saying "you're wrong" in a roundabout manner. Adding no new insight or adding anything. Boring and forgettable. It's not even a clever slogan. This is Facebook boomer level retort. Step it up. Even if I thought in slogans, this wouldn't land.

  • @silence6605

    @silence6605

    Жыл бұрын

    @@philhudson3619Most people are not going to write whole essays in a KZread comment section.