Shray Mehta, ‘Authoritarian Populism and the Political Life of Decolonial Theory in India’

Wednesday 3rd December, 2025

5:30 pm, ArtsTwo 2.17

The QMUL South Asia Forum is pleased to host a reading group discussing Shray Mehta’s article “‘Decolonizing the Hindu Mind’: Authoritarian Populism and the Political Life of Decolonial Theory in India“, published in the journal Sociology (2025). Mehta’s research critically interrogates work by Hindutva intellectuals.

Shray Mehta is a Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Northumbria University.

We will open our discussion with responses from Ida Roland Birkvad, Fellow in the Department of International Relations at LSE, and Niharika Pandit, Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Society and Environment, QMUL.

All welcome. No registration required, but please read Mehta’s article in preparation. For a PDF version, please write to c.moffat [@] qmul.ac.uk.