Sudhir Selvaraj
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Asst. Prof. @UniofBradford @BDPeaceandDev | PhD from @KingsIndiaInst | 🇮🇳Political economy & security | RTs are not endorsements | He/ him
Leeds, England
Joined June 2011
My paper 'Acts of Violence? Anti-Conversion Laws in India' was published online yesterday by @SLS_Journal. It forms part of a special issue I am co-editing with @RaphaelSusewind on Hindutva and the Rule(s) of Law.
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Extant scholarship on anti-Christian violence in India is scant and predominantly focuses on physical violence. To address this gap, this article explores Freed...
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RT @harikrishnan_91: 🚨Interested in research, writing, or design—and have a few hours to spare each month? . Join us at @ker_ala, a volunte….
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RT @harikrishnan_91: 🚨🚨.For PhD students from India to come to KCL for a studentship.
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This opportunity, like The Inlaks Research & Travel Grant, enables scholars currently enrolled in PhD programmes at Indian universities to undertake a short-term visit to the King’s India Institute,...
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So glad to share the speech with these wonderful people at the #aspirelaunch . Learn more about the Aspire Network at
Brilliant to see so many amazing colleagues at the #aspirelaunch It's such an exciting time to look at the Teaching track in Politics and IR.@mlebourdon .@louisepears.@JeremyMoulton13.@SudhirSelvaraj.@jillianterry.
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This excellent piece by @harikrishnan_91 is part of a special issue co-edoted by Kenneth Bo Nielsen and I on Anti Christian violence in India for Commonwealth and Comparative Politics. Stay tuned for more very soon. Until then Hari's piece is available open access.
New (Open Access) work! . Wrote about how a "sacred geography" is shaped through sites, routes and neighbourhoods, and how one can read the recent outreach by Kerala BJP leaders to the Christian community. Thanks @SudhirSelvaraj @K_Bo_Nielsen @AW1010 .
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RT @_AlexWaterman: India and Pakistan have agreed a precarious peace – but will it last? My short piece with @SudhirSelvaraj
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The ceasefire between these two nuclear powers appears to be holding, but deeper resolution appears unlikely.
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The Call for Papers for the @CapabilityApp Conference this September is closing next week (18th Feb). The theme is Culture, Peace and Capabilities. Please apply and spread the word. More: @NabeelaMKhan.@UniofBradford .#HDCA2025
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Th thme for the conference is Peace, Culture and Capabilities. CFP here -
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The HDCA is a global community of academics and practitioners that seeks to build an intellectual community around the ideas of human development and the capability approach, and relate these ideas...
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What an exiting time for @BDPeaceAndDev as we host this year's @CapabilityApp annual conference in September. The CFP is open for a few more days. Fantastic time to also visit @bradford2025 as we are the UK City of Culture.
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Very excited for this.
Tomorrow I'll be a panellist for alongside @SudhirSelvaraj and @PrarthanaPuthr1 talking about Masters and PhD applications - @ProjEduAccess is a great initiative for supporting marginalised students in India, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan
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The chapter appears in 'Interrogating Marginalities across Disciplinary Boundaries: Colonial and Post-Colonial India' (Routledge) edited by Anna Bochkovskaya, Sanjukta Das Gupta, Amit Prakash.
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Excited to see my book chapter titled, 'Intersectional Marginality: Compounding Structural Violence Against Dalit Christians in India' published online today -
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The limited literature on anti-Christian violence in India focuses on physical forms of violence. This chapter instead shows how the experience of structural
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My piece on the 40th anniversary of the Bhopal Gas Disaster for @ConversationUK :
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Four decades on, survivors of the Bhopal gas disaster are still campaigning for a fair settlement.
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RT @_AlexWaterman: @BDPeaceAndDev Peace FC on the West End: Was delighted to be invited as a special guest to the live show of chart-toppin….
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Very excited to see this SI being published. It was such a joy working with @CStychin and @SLS_Journal. @RaphaelSusewind.
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How lucky that on Teacher's Day (in India), I got to talk about how I include Documentary Theatre in my teaching at the @PolStudiesAssoc Learning and Teaching Conference @durham_uni. It was particularly exciting being around others who care about teaching so deeply.
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RT @IndrajitRoyYork: What a privilege to be involved in this stellar Special Issue in @SLS_Journal. Thanks to @RaphaelSusewind & @SudhirSel….
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It was such an enriching experience working on this special issue for @SLS_Journal with @RaphaelSusewind. The SI will be out in print next month but articles available online now (open access).
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RT @Roshanjnu: Self praise is always avoidable, but proud to launch @NishantTISS ‘s caste, state, party & portfolio dataset of all Counc….
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Very excited to chair this event next week. Do register.
Join @KingsIndiaInst for a HYBRID talk by Dr Chakali Chandra Sekhar about Dalit conversions to Christianity in Colonial South India, told through the story of one woman, Winniamma. 🗓️13 Aug, 5-6.30pm BST.Join in-person at Strand or online. Register:
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