Shruti Kapila
@shrutikapila.bsky.social
Politics/ India/ History/Ideas
Working at the University of Cambridge
Words in Financial Times, BBC, AL Jazeera, New Statesman. Columnist: ThePrint India
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/professor-shruti-kapila
Working at the University of Cambridge
Words in Financial Times, BBC, AL Jazeera, New Statesman. Columnist: ThePrint India
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/professor-shruti-kapila
JOB!!! First time for a job at Cam with South Asia’s intellectual history as part of the remit!
Delighted as YES ( some have asked) I will doing a new book and project ! Apply !!
search.app/sJpoibi3wVM4hR…
Delighted as YES ( some have asked) I will doing a new book and project ! Apply !!
search.app/sJpoibi3wVM4hR…
March 22, 2025 at 3:06 AM
JOB!!! First time for a job at Cam with South Asia’s intellectual history as part of the remit!
Delighted as YES ( some have asked) I will doing a new book and project ! Apply !!
search.app/sJpoibi3wVM4hR…
Delighted as YES ( some have asked) I will doing a new book and project ! Apply !!
search.app/sJpoibi3wVM4hR…
Spoke to bright young things at the storied St Stephen’s College. Memorably engaging. Indian Political Thought shows the way again!
March 5, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Spoke to bright young things at the storied St Stephen’s College. Memorably engaging. Indian Political Thought shows the way again!
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Sign up for the International Society for Intellectual History conference in June, "Men, Women, and Other Animals". 👇
Honoured to give one of the keynotes alongside @shrutikapila.bsky.social and Gianna Pomata...
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Honoured to give one of the keynotes alongside @shrutikapila.bsky.social and Gianna Pomata...
@isih-blueskye.bsky.social
January 20, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Sign up for the International Society for Intellectual History conference in June, "Men, Women, and Other Animals". 👇
Honoured to give one of the keynotes alongside @shrutikapila.bsky.social and Gianna Pomata...
@isih-blueskye.bsky.social
Honoured to give one of the keynotes alongside @shrutikapila.bsky.social and Gianna Pomata...
@isih-blueskye.bsky.social
Next week's opening of a conference on India Political Thought at NLS! It is a rare pleasure to host one of my formative teachers. Come and hear Prof Palat's measure of Nehru & democracy!
January 4, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Next week's opening of a conference on India Political Thought at NLS! It is a rare pleasure to host one of my formative teachers. Come and hear Prof Palat's measure of Nehru & democracy!
Farewell, the great Shyam Bengal. His films ensured that I did History. Every film is a deep but human dive into the big events & phenomena of modern India. Take your pick from 1857, to Telangana, landlords, women, cooperatives, leaders & even the Constitution!
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Shyam Benegal (1934-2024): The conscience keeper of Indian cinema
The renowned director has died at the age of 90.
scroll.in
December 23, 2024 at 4:02 PM
Farewell, the great Shyam Bengal. His films ensured that I did History. Every film is a deep but human dive into the big events & phenomena of modern India. Take your pick from 1857, to Telangana, landlords, women, cooperatives, leaders & even the Constitution!
scroll.in/reel/1076975...
scroll.in/reel/1076975...
Back briefly in Cambridge! Welcomed by friends and then the big surprise : a box of my book. Now in paperback !! Thank you @PrincetonUPress and big thanks to those who have read and engaged with my work
December 5, 2024 at 4:39 PM
Back briefly in Cambridge! Welcomed by friends and then the big surprise : a box of my book. Now in paperback !! Thank you @PrincetonUPress and big thanks to those who have read and engaged with my work
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Oh, my new book is already available to pre-order - out in April! www.amazon.co.uk/Measure-Prog...
The Measure of Progress: Counting What Really Matters
Buy The Measure of Progress: Counting What Really Matters by Coyle, Diane (ISBN: 9780691179025) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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December 1, 2024 at 10:09 AM
Oh, my new book is already available to pre-order - out in April! www.amazon.co.uk/Measure-Prog...
Same for London and Cambridge. All the chat is about home buying and beautifying! And figures who attract attentive envy. I’m done with football & cricket tho the former has its own voluble partisans
this is not at all my experience of conversations in new york which at least in my circles are mostly about real estate and sometimes about one person in your field who is successful but that everyone hates. and sometimes basketball
November 24, 2024 at 3:40 PM
Same for London and Cambridge. All the chat is about home buying and beautifying! And figures who attract attentive envy. I’m done with football & cricket tho the former has its own voluble partisans
Fair but damning review of Harari's latest. "Yet like a chatbot, he [Harari] has a quasi-antagonistic relationship with his sources…mines other writers for material—a neat quip, a telling anecdote—but rarely seems taken with anyone else’s views."
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
A Brief History of Yuval Noah Harari
How the scholar became Silicon Valley’s favorite guru
www.theatlantic.com
September 7, 2024 at 7:48 AM
Fair but damning review of Harari's latest. "Yet like a chatbot, he [Harari] has a quasi-antagonistic relationship with his sources…mines other writers for material—a neat quip, a telling anecdote—but rarely seems taken with anyone else’s views."
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Call it by its name— Ritual and Ram Temple announce the Hindu State.
My column @ThePrintIndia
theprint.in/opinion/modi...
My column @ThePrintIndia
theprint.in/opinion/modi...
Modi asked 'what next' at Ayodhya. A new date, grander ritual for an official Hindu state
Ram temple has transformed India in its entirety. From party politics to cultural warfare, India or Bharat is undeniably Hindu today. Pluralism is just a colourful backdrop.
theprint.in
January 23, 2024 at 11:12 AM
Call it by its name— Ritual and Ram Temple announce the Hindu State.
My column @ThePrintIndia
theprint.in/opinion/modi...
My column @ThePrintIndia
theprint.in/opinion/modi...
Thrilled to have spent a terrific week at National Law School, Bangalore, Big Ideas :Important, Insightful,and Energetic: India at its best! Highlight of an engaging year!!
December 18, 2023 at 1:55 PM
Thrilled to have spent a terrific week at National Law School, Bangalore, Big Ideas :Important, Insightful,and Energetic: India at its best! Highlight of an engaging year!!
Unpopular Opinion:
As 2024 looks set for Modi it's the perfect moment for Congress to go solo and remake not just itself but Indian politics. Only a bipolar politics can contest the party-state trajectory of Indian politics.
theprint.in/opinion/indi...
As 2024 looks set for Modi it's the perfect moment for Congress to go solo and remake not just itself but Indian politics. Only a bipolar politics can contest the party-state trajectory of Indian politics.
theprint.in/opinion/indi...
December 4, 2023 at 11:02 AM
Unpopular Opinion:
As 2024 looks set for Modi it's the perfect moment for Congress to go solo and remake not just itself but Indian politics. Only a bipolar politics can contest the party-state trajectory of Indian politics.
theprint.in/opinion/indi...
As 2024 looks set for Modi it's the perfect moment for Congress to go solo and remake not just itself but Indian politics. Only a bipolar politics can contest the party-state trajectory of Indian politics.
theprint.in/opinion/indi...
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It's 10 years since Tesco in Hampstead ran out of organic porridge, the point which for many people marks the start of the accelerated decline of this once great country.
December 3, 2023 at 8:42 PM
It's 10 years since Tesco in Hampstead ran out of organic porridge, the point which for many people marks the start of the accelerated decline of this once great country.
Leaders as Feudal Overlords? Lavish campaigns only to announce pathetic guarantee schemes — India’s welfare system is broken as big money spent on elections. My take on this season of polls!
Telangana to MP, political funding is the bigger problem not welfare!
theprint.in/opinion/telang…
Telangana to MP, political funding is the bigger problem not welfare!
theprint.in/opinion/telang…
November 27, 2023 at 11:05 AM
Leaders as Feudal Overlords? Lavish campaigns only to announce pathetic guarantee schemes — India’s welfare system is broken as big money spent on elections. My take on this season of polls!
Telangana to MP, political funding is the bigger problem not welfare!
theprint.in/opinion/telang…
Telangana to MP, political funding is the bigger problem not welfare!
theprint.in/opinion/telang…
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In “Intellectual History or Philosophical History? The Indian Century as Global Miniature” @raphaellekhan.bsky.social and I discuss Shruti Kapila’s Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global Age
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 7, 2023 at 6:40 PM
In “Intellectual History or Philosophical History? The Indian Century as Global Miniature” @raphaellekhan.bsky.social and I discuss Shruti Kapila’s Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global Age
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
"Hegel had no doubt that human history had been a “slaughter-bench”..Yet it had also delivered a form of life, defined by the principle of universal freedom, which we would never knowingly choose to relinquish."
A must read essay by Richard Bourke
newstatesman.com/ideas/2023/11/…
A must read essay by Richard Bourke
newstatesman.com/ideas/2023/11/…
November 2, 2023 at 12:40 PM
"Hegel had no doubt that human history had been a “slaughter-bench”..Yet it had also delivered a form of life, defined by the principle of universal freedom, which we would never knowingly choose to relinquish."
A must read essay by Richard Bourke
newstatesman.com/ideas/2023/11/…
A must read essay by Richard Bourke
newstatesman.com/ideas/2023/11/…
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Cambridge constellation in the lecture series "Revolutions and Democracy in the Modern Era" at the University of Milan, featuring Richard Bourke, Shruti Kapila and Eugenio Biagini @camhistory.bsky.social
November 1, 2023 at 11:36 AM
Cambridge constellation in the lecture series "Revolutions and Democracy in the Modern Era" at the University of Milan, featuring Richard Bourke, Shruti Kapila and Eugenio Biagini @camhistory.bsky.social
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My glorious colleague Shruti Kapila, @shrutikapila.bsky.social, historian and author of "Violent Fraternity: Indian political thought in the global age", is On Here.
September 25, 2023 at 6:28 AM
My glorious colleague Shruti Kapila, @shrutikapila.bsky.social, historian and author of "Violent Fraternity: Indian political thought in the global age", is On Here.