Vinay Lal

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Historyindian historypoliticsbollywoodcultureliterature
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Audience and activity

Subscribers39.5K
Views per video1.0Kmedian of the last 30
Views per subscriber0.03how many actually watch
Comments per video5median
Uploads per month3.9
Last upload5mo ago2026-05-10
Total views3.1M
Total videos426
Long-form / Shorts100% / 0%

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What Vinay Lal makes

Topics indian history, politics, bollywood, culture, literature

This YouTube channel offers viewers and listeners a scholarly and yet approachable guide to Indian history, culture, politics, and religion, and more broadly the inheritance of Indian civilization; however, it has also become a site for my video reviews of books, and lectures and interviews pertaining to world history, politics, and literature. Many of my UCLA lecture courses, with which this channel started, are neatly organized into playlists. For more advanced students and scholars, there is even a course on the Politics of Knowledge in Colonial India, just as for those millions who love mainstream Indian cinema, there is a course on "Bollywood and Nationalism". Scholars and students of Gandhi and nonviolence, and on the other hand of genocide, will find much material. In recent years, I have also added a few shorter videos, 5-30 minutes in length, of lectures and observations delivered on site--at Treblinka, Gandhi's Sabarmati Ashram, etc.

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Recent videos

TitlePublishedViewsLength
The Conjuncture of the Present: Challenges for the Future of Humankind and Our Planetary Existence2026-05-101.1K80 min
War on Iran: A Civilization & Its Poetry, Defiance, & Collective Will - With Hossein Sattari, Part 22026-04-1667479 min
War on Iran: A Conversation with an Iranian Citizen, Writer, Lover of Books, & Story-Teller - Part 12026-04-1574063 min
War on Iran, War on Civilization 10: A People's History of Iran? Apocalypse Now?2026-04-0781637 min
War on Iran, War on Civilization 9: Foucault, 1979 Islamic Revolution , & Political Spirituality2026-04-071.3K40 min
War on Iran, War on Civilization 8: Foucault and the 1st Global Guerrilla War of the Modern World2026-04-051.2K59 min
War On Iran, War On Civlilization 7: Ayatollah Khomeini and the Iranian Revolution of 19792026-04-051.3K43 min
War On Iran, War On Civlilization 6: The Political Theology of Islam & the Downfall of the Shah2026-04-052.7K51 min
War On Iran, War On Civilization 5: The 1953 Coup and CIA-MI6 repression of democracy in Iran2026-03-3092841 min
War On Iran, War On Civilization 4: Iran from 1908 to Before the 1953 Coup2026-03-301.5K47 min

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