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About Tejas Parasher
I am a political theorist and a Junior Research Fellow in Political Thought and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. I write on issues related to the history of 20th century political and legal thought, particularly around questions of imperial rule and decolonization. My work has been published or is forthcoming in a variety of journals and edited volumes, including Modern Intellectual History, Polity, and the International Journal of Constitutional Law. My current book project, "The Body of the People: Popular Sovereignty in Indian Political Thought," recovers a largely forgotten tradition of direct democracy within South Asian constitutional thought of the interwar period. Much of my work focuses on the intellectual history of nationalist and other anti-imperial movements in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean, with a particular regional focus on South Asia. I am also generally interested in the emerging subfields of global intellectual history and comparative political theory, and in the global circulation of ideas about democracy, constitutionalism, and state sovereignty in the 20th century. I am deeply committed to integrating more non-European authors and texts into both research and teaching in political thought and intellectual history.Tejas Parasher is Junior Research Fellow in Political Thought and Intellectual History at King’s College, University of Cambridge.
NBN Episodes hosted by Tejas:
November 24, 2021
The Right of Sovereignty
Sovereignty is the vital organizing principle of modern international law. Daniel Lee's book The Right of Sovereignty: Jean Bodin on the Sovereign Sta…
October 21, 2021
On Borders
When are borders justified? Who has a right to control them? Where should they be drawn? Today people think of borders as an island's shores. Just …
September 15, 2021
Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, first published in 1792, is a work of enduring relevance in women’s rights advocacy. Howev…
August 27, 2021
The Democratic Sublime
The transition from royal to popular sovereignty during the age of democratic revolutions—from 1776 to 1848—entailed not only the reorganization of in…
July 20, 2021
The Work of Politics
The Work of Politics: Making a Democratic Welfare State (Cambridge University Press 2020) advances a new understanding of how democratic social moveme…
July 7, 2021
Seeing Like an Activist
There are few movements more firmly associated with civil disobedience than the Civil Rights Movement. In the mainstream imagination, civil rights act…
June 10, 2021
Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought
Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought (Harvard UP, 2020) is an ambitious reinterpretation and defense of Plato’s basic enterprise and in…