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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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    Sandipto Dasgupta is Assistant Professor of Politics at The New School for Social Research. For the 2024-25 academic year, he was 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.

    Current Courses

    Ind Senior Prject
    LPOL 4990, Spring 2026

    Independent Study
    LPOL 3950, Spring 2026

    Independent Study
    GPOL 6990, Spring 2026

    Future Courses

    Directed Dissertation Study
    GPOL 7991, Fall 2026

    Field Seminar Pol Theory
    GPOL 7301, Fall 2026

    Ind Senior Prject
    LPOL 4990, Fall 2026

    Independent Study
    GPOL 6990, Fall 2026

    Independent Study
    LPOL 3950, Fall 2026

    Law & Social Change
    ULEC 2862, Fall 2026

    Past Courses

    Directed Dissertation Study
    GPOL 7991, Fall 2025

    Field Seminar Pol Theory
    GPOL 7301, Fall 2025

    Ind Senior Prject
    LPOL 4990, Fall 2025

    Independent Study
    GPOL 6990, Fall 2025

    Independent Study
    LPOL 3950, Fall 2025

    Law & Social Change
    ULEC 2862, Fall 2025

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