11 February 2016, 05:30 am
The Red Fort Trial: Justice by a Dying Colonialism
Programme Type
Talks
Speaker: Prof. Leonard Gordon, well-known historian of South Asia especially Bengal and author of Brothers Against the Raj: A Biography of Indian Nationalist Leaders Sarat and Subhas Chandra Bose
Chair: Prof. Indivar Kamtekar, Associate Professor, Centre for Historical Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University
The talk will borrow some material from the book and other new material and bring in comparisons to Nuremberg, Tokyo, and Eichmann Trials to show the uniqueness of the Red Fort Trials