Shruti Kapila teaches modern history and global political thought at the
University of Cambridge, Faculty of History and is a Fellow of Corpus
Christi College. Kapila's principal fields of writing are modern and
contemporary India, violence , global political thought, the British
empire, psychoanalysis, race and gender. Her latest book VIOLENT FRATERNITY:INDIAN POLITICAL THOUGHT IN THE GLOBAL AGE has received advanced praise as 'ground breaking', 'highly original', 'brilliant' and
even 'transformative' of our understanding of India and global political
languages.
Kapila does regular commentary for print and television including
Financial Times, Prospect Magazine, BBC and Al Jazeera TV and writes
a fortnightly column for The Print, India. She also does regular
podcasts for a range of public and academic sites.
Kapila was born, educated and made in India. She graduated from Panjab
University Chandigarh with top honours and read for a Master's in Modern
History at JNU, Delhi that was followed by a doctorate from SOAS, London
University. Her professional life has been international and prior to
Cambridge, she has held a research position at the University of Oxford
and was Assistant Professor, in conjunction with a University Chair for
Career Development, at Tufts University, Mass., USA.
Predating recent calls to ‘decolonise’ the curriculum by more than a
decade, Kapila's academic life has been defined by centring the
importance of India for the remaking of global political languages from
anti-imperialism to democracy, violence and justice. Her new projects
include work on Indian democracy, the ideas of global conservatism, and
a biography focusing on race and psychoanalysis in postwar London.
Away from the writing and the teaching room, Kapila is co-director of
Global Humanities Project at Cambridge, and has worked on international
strategy for the Vice-Chancellor's Office there. She also consults for
selective UK and Indian government departments.
University of Cambridge, Faculty of History and is a Fellow of Corpus
Christi College. Kapila's principal fields of writing are modern and
contemporary India, violence , global political thought, the British
empire, psychoanalysis, race and gender. Her latest book VIOLENT FRATERNITY:INDIAN POLITICAL THOUGHT IN THE GLOBAL AGE has received advanced praise as 'ground breaking', 'highly original', 'brilliant' and
even 'transformative' of our understanding of India and global political
languages.
Kapila does regular commentary for print and television including
Financial Times, Prospect Magazine, BBC and Al Jazeera TV and writes
a fortnightly column for The Print, India. She also does regular
podcasts for a range of public and academic sites.
Kapila was born, educated and made in India. She graduated from Panjab
University Chandigarh with top honours and read for a Master's in Modern
History at JNU, Delhi that was followed by a doctorate from SOAS, London
University. Her professional life has been international and prior to
Cambridge, she has held a research position at the University of Oxford
and was Assistant Professor, in conjunction with a University Chair for
Career Development, at Tufts University, Mass., USA.
Predating recent calls to ‘decolonise’ the curriculum by more than a
decade, Kapila's academic life has been defined by centring the
importance of India for the remaking of global political languages from
anti-imperialism to democracy, violence and justice. Her new projects
include work on Indian democracy, the ideas of global conservatism, and
a biography focusing on race and psychoanalysis in postwar London.
Away from the writing and the teaching room, Kapila is co-director of
Global Humanities Project at Cambridge, and has worked on international
strategy for the Vice-Chancellor's Office there. She also consults for
selective UK and Indian government departments.
