Manjeet Ramgotra

Dr Manjeet Ramgotra

Independent Scholar Fellow 2020-21

Postcolonial Republicanism: The Indian Founding and its Impact

This study examines the founding of the Indian republic, it looks at its intellectual origins and considers how this moment produced an innovative postcolonial conception of republicanism. Manjeet's research contributes a new strand of thinking beyond mainstream Cambridge School understanding of republicanism that considers republicanism to be a neglected ideal in the history of western political thought.

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Research outcomes

Ramgotra, M., & Choat, S. (Eds.). (2023).

Rethinking Political Thinkers. Oxford University Press.

Areas of interest

Political Theory Republicanism Anti-Colonialism Decolonisation India Southern Asia

Cohort

ISF6

Biography

Manjeet Ramgotra is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory in the Department of Politics and International Studies at SOAS University of London (UK). In 2020, she was awarded an ISRF Independent Scholars Fellowship that she took up at the Department of Politics at QMUL. Her research examines republicanism and its entanglements with imperialism in the history of European political ideas and in anti-colonial political thought and movements, notably in India. She is a strong advocate of decolonising the curriculum and has co-edited a book on Decolonising Curricula and Pedagogy in Higher Education (Routledge, 2021). In 2023, she produced a new textbook, Rethinking Political Thinkers (OUP) that reimagines the field of political theory beyond the canon.

Biographical details correct as of 06.05.25