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  • Sandipto Dasgupta

    Assistant Professor, Politics

    Email
    dasguptas@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    D - 6 East 16th Street

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    Sandipto Dasgupta

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    My research is in the history of modern political and social thought, especially the political theory of empire, decolonization, and postcolonial presents. My book manuscript, Legalizing the Revolution: India and the Constitution of the Postcolony (Cambridge University Press, January 2024), reconstructs the institutionalization of nascent postcolonial futures through a historical study of the Indian constitution making experience.

    Before coming to The New School, I was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and the British Academy, and taught at Ashoka and Columbia Universities.

    Degrees Held

    PhD, Columbia University

    Recent Publications

    Books

    Legalizing the Revolution: India and the Constitution of the Postcolony, Cambridge University Press, January 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.

    Current Courses

    Dean's Honor Symposium
    LNGC 3930, Spring 2024

    Ind Senior Prject
    LPOL 4990, Spring 2024

    Independent Study
    LPOL 3950, Spring 2024

    The Postcolonial World
    GPOL 6124, Spring 2024

    Future Courses

    Directed Dissertation Study
    GPOL 7991, Fall 2024

    Ind Senior Prject
    LPOL 4990, Fall 2024

    Independent Study
    LPOL 3950, Fall 2024

    Independent Study
    GPOL 6990, Fall 2024

    Past Courses

    Directed Dissertation Study
    GPOL 7991, Fall 2023

    Ind Senior Prject
    LPOL 4990, Fall 2023

    Independent Study
    LPOL 3950, Fall 2023

    Independent Study
    GPOL 6990, Fall 2023

    Law & Social Change
    ULEC 2862, Fall 2023

    New Currents in Pol Theory
    GPOL 5026, Fall 2023

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