Sandipto Dasgupta

The spectrum of pro and anti Mamdani opinion amongst Delhi elites go from ‘Knew his uncle at Stephen’s’ to ‘Knew his mother at Miranda House’

My chats are full of stuff like this

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.

For those in the Boston/ Cambridge area, will be speaking about my book at @mitpolisci.bsky.social on Friday (October 17), at 3.30 PM.

Next week, @sandipto.bsky.social speaking on his new book.

polisci.mit.edu/events/2025/...

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.

“Blouin’s Africa was a product of revolutionary political self-making—a project defeated before it could be born by the reactionary regressions to the inherited.”

Looking forward to discussing Dan Edelstein's new book at the @remarquenyu.bsky.social on Friday

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.

"Blouin’s very birth troubled a colonial order erected on a strict racial hierarchy. She would make sure that her life would be far more of a problem for it."

Thank you! Yes, it is tragic how much she had been forgotten.

His was one of the best analysis/ critique of the postwar Welfare State Capitalism that I have read.
Was planning to teach this book this semester.
Rest in Peace.

Verso's Southern Questions Decolonisation was the major historical process of the twentieth century. Its unfinished projects continue to shape our present. The defeat, withdrawal, and reconfiguration of Western colonial power i...

Blouin's autobiography was reprinted as a part of @versobooks.bsky.social excellent new Southern Questions series.

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.

I wrote for the @bostonreview.bsky.social about the extraordinary Andrée Blouin, along with Lumumba, Cesaire, Fanon, and the anticolonial revolution that could have been.

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.

love that someone else saw soundtrack to a coup d'etat and was like "I wonder who that lady is"

@sandipto.bsky.social's excellent essay about Andree Blouin's memoir made my week: www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...