{"id":1091,"date":"2025-11-03T17:08:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T17:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/?p=1091"},"modified":"2025-11-03T17:23:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T17:23:17","slug":"shray-mehta-authoritarian-populism-and-the-political-life-of-decolonial-theory-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/2025\/11\/03\/shray-mehta-authoritarian-populism-and-the-political-life-of-decolonial-theory-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Shray Mehta, ‘Authoritarian Populism and the Political Life of Decolonial Theory in India’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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<\/a>“, published in the journal Sociology <\/i>(2025). Mehta’s research critically interrogates work by Hindutva intellectuals.<\/span><\/p>\n

Shray Mehta <\/b>is a Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Northumbria University.<\/span><\/p>\n

We will open our discussion with responses from Ida Roland Birkvad, <\/b>Fellow in the Department of International Relations at LSE, and <\/span>Niharika Pandit, <\/b>Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Society and Environment, QMUL. <\/span><\/p>\n

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

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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 […] Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1091"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1096,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions\/1096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}