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Shruti Balaji

@shrutibalaji.bsky.social

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British Academy postdoctoral fellow, POLIS & Research Associate, King’s College, University of Cambridge. 📚20th C. Indian women thinkers, history of international thought, race, gender, empire. Often thinking about flowers, cricket, and tea.

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

The new issue of the JHI includes a cluster of articles on "Race: Histories of Idea." Shruti Balaji's contribution is "'The African Problem Is a World Problem': (Dis)locating Race in Late Colonial Indian Intellectual Thought." Read it here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic... @shrutibalaji.bsky.social

A quote from the article: "The (dis)location of elite Indian thought on "race" . . . presents an unstable relationship between questions of universal racial justice and anticolonial struggles in the years prior to India's independence. . . . Kamaladevi's and Naidu's thinking on Afro-Asian solidarities reveals how Indian intellectual thought on race traversed idealized notions of racial solidarities alongside hierarchical and paternalistic attitudes toward Africans under colonial rule."

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Shruti Balaji @shrutibalaji.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I’m pleased to share my new article out in the Journal of the History of Ideas (@jhideas.bsky.social) 📝✨ In this article, I (dis)locate ideas of “race” in the intellectual thought of elite Indian political thinkers in the early to mid twentieth century. Link to article and outline of arguments ⬇️

Picture showing the title page of a publication in the Journal of the History of Ideas on elite Indian intellectual thought on race c.1920-50

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