How Nehru's Socialist Policies Destroyed India's Classical Arts & Cultural Economy | Dr. Bharat Gupt

Dr. Bharat Gupt reveals the devastating cultural and economic impact of Nehruvian socialist policies on India's traditional arts, craftsmanship, and civilizational institutions. Discover how nationalization, License Raj, and centralized planning dismantled centuries-old patronage systems and learn why India's classical performing arts nearly disappeared after 1947. Dr. Gupt, renowned scholar of Sanskrit drama and musicology, systematically exposes how post-independence economic policies destroyed the ecosystem that sustained kathak, bharatanatyam, craftsmanship, and temple traditions while revealing the hidden costs of political ideology on cultural preservation. Essential viewing for students of Indian history, cultural policy analysts, and anyone seeking to understand the institutional foundations that sustained India's classical civilization.

Key Points:
Economic destruction of traditional arts patronage through nationalization and taxation
How License Raj and socialist policies dismantled craftsman guilds and princely state systems
The collapse of classical performing arts institutions post-independence
Sanskrit education decline and impact on knowledge transmission systems
Comparison with China's cultural preservation despite communist ideology
Contemporary challenges in reviving traditional arts and cultural institutions

About the Speaker
Prof. Bharat Gupt, a retired Professor from the University of Delhi, is a classicist, theatre theorist, sitar and surbahar player, musicologist, cultural analyst, and newspaper columnist. Through his books, articles and lectures spanning 35 years, he has shared his immense and extensive knowledge on arts, society and culture.
He is known as an international authority on the Natyashastra and classical Greek theatre. Apart from his degrees from premier institutions in the country and from North America, he has studied in the traditional style the classical Indian texts from famous gurus.
His major published books include: Dramatic Concepts Greek and Indian: Study in Poetics and the Natyasastra, Natyasastra, Chapter 28: Ancient Scales of Indian Music, Twelve Greek Poems into Hindi , India: A Cultural Decline or Revival?.
He is a proficient user of Hindi, English, Sanskrit and Greek languages for his scholarly studies and writings and is an excellent speaker in Hindi and English. His 120 video lectures can seen on Youtube. More information can gathered from his website, http://www.bharatgupt.com

Topics covered
00:00 Introduction: The Lingering Problem of Nehruvian Socialism
06:32 The False Dichotomy: Tradition vs Modernity
15:24 Language Policy Disaster: English as Colonial Continuation
22:29 The Myth of Scientific Temperament
35:16 Constitutional Discrimination: Articles 28, 29, and 30
58:10 Three Pillars of Nehruvian Damage: Ashrafiyat, Afsari, Akhliyat
1:03:48 The Way Forward: Duties Before Rights
1:11:03 Dharmic State vs Secular State
1:17:09 Eliminating Minority-Majority Politics
1:24:55 Q&A: Teaching Against the Establishment
1:40:32 The Decline of Classical Arts and Education
1:52:55 Models for Future Governance
2:00:19 Why Hindu Society Accepted This Damage
2:18:26 Breaking Free from Nehruvian Ideology

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