Sandipto Dasgupta
Assistant Professor, Politics
Email
dasguptas@newschool.edu
Office Location
D - 6 East 16th Street
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**On leave Fall 2024-Spring 2025**
Sandipto Dasgupta is Assistant Professor of Politics at The New School for Social Research. For the 2024-25 academic year, he will be a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University.
His research is in the history of modern political and social thought, especially the political theory of empire, decolonization, and postcolonial presents. He is the author of Legalizing the Revolution: India and the Constitution of the Postcolony (Cambridge University Press, 2024), which reconstructs the institutionalization of nascent postcolonial futures through a historical study of the Indian constitution making experience.
Before coming to The New School, Sandipto was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and the British Academy.
Degrees Held
PhD, Columbia University
Recent Publications
Books
Legalizing the Revolution: India and the Constitution of the Postcolony (Cambridge University Press, May 2024)
Media
Quoted in "How Have Artists Shaped Previous Protest Movements?" artnet news, June 16, 2020.
"The Fight for India's Democracy, From the University to the Streets," The Wire, January 12, 2020.
"NSSR Welcomes Political Theorist Sandipto Dasgupta," Research Matters, June 14, 2019.