Sandipto Dasgupta

Thanks Manan!

The NYC Policy Forum is a very exciting new project which I am thrilled to be part of.

Thank you :)

Honored to receive the Bernard Cohn first book prize. Thank you to the @asianstudies.org for this recognition.

Clifford Geertz's “Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight” is my favorite example

Had a chance to read this in draft form. Cannot recommend highly enough.

The CFP is now up for the 6th Asian Legal History Conference, which will be in Melaka, Malaysia (6-7 August 2026). Proposals are due by 1 April 2026 (Malaysia time): www.mmu.edu.my/fol/alhc2026/ #LegalHistory

Highly symbolic attachments to singular leaders like Modi or Trump isn't about too much democracy, says Sandipto Dasgupta.

From our latest episode on the making of independent India:

🎧: www.patreon.com/posts/528-he...

Furious clarity from Jude Wanga www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...

🚨 The political economy of finance summer school is back, 3rd year running! Better still: We're bringing it to London via @lse-ei.bsky.social.

𝐓𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜: Finance & democracy
𝙳̲̲𝚊̲̲𝚝̲̲𝚎̲: 4-5 June 2026
𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦: March 1. Link below.

We've got brilliant instructors as usual. Please spread the word!

LPE 2.0: A New Association to Meet the Times As the Trump administration attempts to suppress critical inquiry and operate outside of conventional legal boundaries, the work of LPE scholars, organizers, and practitioners has never been more…

A new era for LPE — a more democratic one, not subject to university administrators and not reliant on funder money.

LPE lfg

lpeproject.org/blog/lpe-2-0...

Buying a copy tomorrow to frame it

YouTube video by Remarque NYU Dan Edelstein on The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin

Watch Dan Edelstein speak on his book, The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin, in conversation with @judith-surkis.bsky.social and @sandipto.bsky.social on October 10th.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfGW...

Criminal Law and the Constitution of the Postcolony: India (A Book Panel) - Modern Criminal Law Review Criminal Law and the Constitution of the Postcolony: India (A Book Panel) Imagine adopting a constitution notionally designed to install “The People” as the true repository of sovereign power and to t...

crimlrev.net/event/crimin...

Excited about this discussion on my book tomorrow.

Will be streamed on Youtube

8 PM IST/ 2.30 PM GMT/ 9.30 AM EST
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Symposium on the Bandung Conference and the Third World's many International Laws at @ajil.bsky.social
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Thank you!

A Season in the Congo This play by renowned poet and political activist Aime Césairerecounts the tragic death of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Congo Republic and an African nationalist hero. A Season in ...

The book, published by @uchicagopress.bsky.social
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

The Inventor of the Future - Boston Review The autobiography of anticolonial luminary Andrée Blouin captures her era’s euphoric highs as well as its tragic denouement.

www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

I wrote a little bit about Aimé Césaire's play A Season in the Congo, written after Patrice Lumumba's assassination, for
@bostonreview.bsky.social.

Mahmood Mamdani's new book (just released from @harvardpress.bsky.social) is an account of the fate of postcolonial Uganda, intertwined with a intellectual and political autobiography.

Made a mistake in posting the Steinbaum piece. Here it is: lpeproject.org/blog/anti-mo...

Sorry, my mistake. Here: lpeproject.org/blog/anti-mo...

... politically pursue the other. In my view, given our current conjecture of capitalism anti-monopoly is an immensely important political argument to make, and one that would have wide support. However, the distinction is important to keep in mind, FWIW.

Steinbaum makes a very compelling case (read it). I just think (like Maier) that Anti-monopoly politics is more coherently a pro-democracy/ democratic control of capitalism case rather than an anti-capitalist one. He also thinks that the former acts as an alibi for the inability to...

Marxism and Antitrust: A Provocation How should we understand the relationship between Marxism and antitrust? To what extent do these traditions involve conflicting methods and assumptions? And, despite their differences…

Winant piece: lpeproject.org/blog/marxism...
Steinbaum piece:

Everyone should read the excellent debate between @gabrielwinant.bsky.social and @econmarshall.bsky.social
on the politics of anti-monopoly. Worth adding here Charles Maier's acute observation about the history of anti-monopoly pol. in the US as a replacement for a broader critique of capitalism

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Some news: In 2026-27, I'll be visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, leading the theme seminar on

‘𝘌𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘨𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘺‘

There's no place quite like the IAS to think, together, about big questions. Please share—applications are open 𝚗̲̲𝚘̲̲𝚠̲.