Sandipto Dasgupta is Assistant Professor of Politics at the New School for Social Research. For the academic year 2024-25, he will be a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, in Social Sciences and Historical Studies.
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.
He received his PhD in political theory from Columbia University. Before the New School, he was postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and the British Academy, and taught at Ashoka and Columbia University.
Contact Details
The Institute for Advanced Study
1 Einstein Drive
Princeton, NJ 08540
Phone: +1 212.229.5747
Email: sadasgupta(at)ias.edu
Twitter: @sandiptodg
R.B. Kitaj, The Autumn of Central Paris, 1972-73
