Shruti Kapila: ‘On Violence, or the Importance of Indian Political Thought’

Wednesday 27th April, 2022

5:15 pm, Online and In Person (UCL)

The QMUL South Asia Forum is pleased to co-host this event with the IHR Seminar in the History of Political Ideas. Shruti Kapila will reflect on themes related to her new book, Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global Age (Princeton, 2021), a groundbreaking history of the political ideas that made modern India.

Shruti Kapila is Associate Professor in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College. She is the editor of An Intellectual History for India (Cambridge, 2010) and the coeditor of Political Thought in Action: The Bhagavad Gita and Modern India (Cambridge, 2014).

Please register for this event at tinyurl.com/QMKapila

The seminar will take place on Zoom and in person at UCL Room 4, 188 Tottenham Court Rd, London W1T 7PH.