In this lecture delivered to 300 plus IAS trainee officers at the impressive LBSNAA campus in Mussorie on 11th Nov 2019, Rajiv Malhotra outlines the civilizational foundations of the modern nation state of India. He talks about how there are at least two major competing narratives in India; one the western, secular democracy with its constitution borrowed from the UK, America and the West which forms the ideas of the judiciary, government etc and second, the very old Indian idea of who we are, which is built on the vedic foundational heritage and which assimilated other ideas as it evolved through the times. He says that if there is no consensus on the civilizational impact on the modern narrative, then it is time to see what guides the modern nation state. He talks about how civilizations compete with other civilizations. For example both Iran and Arab countries are Muslim. However, Iranians simply do not like being equated with the Arabs because they feel they come from a different civilization. So, civilizations seem to be the foundation of nation states and at the same time are at odds with other civilizations. The talk is then followed by a very lively Q and A.
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