The National Law School Of India University (NLSIU) invites you to a public lecture on “Legislating democracy: Ambedkar and the future of India”, to be delivered by Prof. Shruti Kapila.
About the speaker
Shruti Kapila is Professor of History and Politics at the University of Cambridge, Director of Studies at Corpus Christi College and Co-Director of Global Humanities Initiative. Her recent book, ‘Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global Age’ (Princeton, 2021), reconstructs the most consequential political concepts that have defined India’s democracy, including sovereignty, subjectivity, religion and violence. She is also a renowned political commentator on forums such as the BBC, Financial Times, and Al Jazeera, and regularly writes a fortnightly column for The Print.
About the discussant
Arvind Narain is Visiting Faculty and PhD scholar at NLSIU working on the legal and political thought of Ambedkar. He was a founding member of the Alternative Law Forum and has authored ‘India’s Undeclared Emergency: Constitutionalism and the Politics of Resistance’ (Westland, 2022).
Abstract of the lecture
Independent India’s constitutional and legal edifice was a political rather than a social revolution. B R Ambedkar instituted caste as a primary political category. Embedded in violence and as the source of India’s sovereign power, Ambedkar redirected caste as fundamental to Indian democracy. In casting Ambedkar as a thinker of radical and republican democracy, this lecture will also explore its ramifications for Indian law and politics today.
Room 201, OAB, Krishnappa Hall
Thursday, December 14, 2023, 5:00 pm
This event is open to the public.
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