Had a long, in-depth conversation with Vatsal Naresh about my book. Here is the Spotify link:.

RT @samuelmoyn: From Anticolonialism to Constitutional Capture: An Interview with Sandipto Dasgupta – JHI Blog

RT @htTweets: .@sandiptodg's new book explores how India delivered on its goals of freedom and independence upon decolonization, which cont….

RT @MilanV: 1/ As if on cue, @sandiptodg was our guest on #GrandTamasha this week, talking about his award-winning book, "Legalizing the Re….

Very honored and grateful for this recognition. And it is a privilege to receive it alongside scholars like @adam_m_auerbach and @tariqthachil whose work I have long admired.

On Wednesday will be moderating a talk by @_YogendraYadav on whether or not Indian political thought is dead

RT @Shaunnaroder: I reviewed Sandipto Dasgupta's Legalizing the Revolution for @SLR_NLSIU. Glad to have this review alongside some fascinat….

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Will be in conversation with @rafkhach about my book. At UPenn, Friday, at 12.15.

RT @BevansAdvocate: 8) Legalizing the Revolution- @sandiptodg.A brilliant analysis of the Indian Constitution from a post colonial perspect….

I have read the manuscript and it is a massive achievement. Perhaps the best thing written on Indian constitutional law/ practice since Upendra Baxi — bringing together various strands of case laws and doctrines into a coherent critique.

The story behind the journal for those who might not know .

Free ad Equal, the new open access journal outside and against the extortionate academic publishing industry, by the former edit. team of Philosophy and Public Affairs, just published its first two article. Hope that this becomes a model that many would follow. Link in reply.

A historian once told me that Bloch's work is appreciated more by other disciplines than historians. As someone who benefits a lot from historians there might be some value for the rest of us in less caution and more big concepts.

It is an abstraction that is necessary for any thinking that aspires to go beyond the specific and/or descriptive. No concept - democracy, colonialism, liberalism, law - can withstand high levels of empirical scrutiny. But we cannot do any political/social theory without them.

From the Preface. It is a word (like democracy etc) that exists in our political vocabulary and hence should be the starting point for thought rather than object of empirical refutation into nothingness. IMO the book demonstrates how to do this well self-reflexively

So many responses to this but (unless I missed) no one cited the GOAT. Who was not only the original target of the critiques referenced here, but IMO also had the best defense for the use of the term.

Happy New Year. Despite Gramsci:

A city and society designed by the Economics department of the University of Chicago, Mike Davis called it.

This is an incredibly ambitious paper, my god. (with a bunch of interesting implications)