“Vinayak & Me”

Today’s Music:

ADF

Decoding My Name

•Vinayak: From West or South India

Vinayak as Ganesh

“Remover of Obstacles”

•Chaturvedi: From North India

Chatur=4 + Vedi=Veda

Image:

1. RIG VEDA
2. YAJUR VEDA
3. SAAM VEDA
4. ATHARVA VEDA

Image: Rig Veda (19th century)

Image: Rig Veda (21st century)

Image: Ganesh as Scribe

Virbati Chaturvedi (Bai)

Dr. Dattatrey Parchure

•Ayurvedic Doctor

•Specializing in Pediatrics

•Resided in Gwalior (central India)

Upendra Parchure

•Ayurvedic Doctor

•Resides in Gwalior

Wrestling

•Masculinity

•“Strong man, Strong nationalist, Strong Hindu”

•Gwalior State champion

•Powerful nationalism

•Wresting nationalism?

Image: Wrestler (Early 20th century)

Image: More Wrestlers

Image: Wrestler

Image: J.J. Hospital

Image: Ayurvedic Physicians

Hinduize Politics, Militarize Hindudom

1910-1937: Savarkar in Prison

1935: Parchure starts Gwalior branch of Hindu Mahasabha

1937: President of Hindu Mahasabha

1939: Parchure and Savarkar meet

Parchure starts Hindu National Army

Nathuram Godse

Family Life

•Sushilabai Parchure

•Savarkar’s “Woman’s Beauty and Duty”

•Why was this part of the story?

Gandhi’s Murder

Gandhiji failed in his duty as the Father of the Nation. He has proved to be the Father of Pakistan. It was for this reason alone that I as a dutiful son of Mother India thought it my duty to put an end to the life of the so-called Father of the Nation who had played a very prominent part in bringing about the vivisection of the country--our Motherland.

Image: The Group (minus Parchure)

How many boys named Vinayak?

•“Dozens upon dozens,” if not “hundreds upon hundreds…”

•A national name now

Hindutva: Who is a Hindu?

•Savarkar writes this book in 1923

•Defines Hindu, Hinduism, Hindutva

•Territory and National Identity (remember IWI: swaraj and swadharma)

•What is in a name?

•Name Older Still

•Other Names

•How Names are Given

B.G. Tilak

•Remember he writes

Savarkar’s letter

of recommendation

•Ganesh Festival: 1890s

Image: Ganesh Festival

Image: On Trial