Salmoli Choudhuri
Salmoli is a doctoral candidate in the Faculty of History, working towards a thesis on self, sovereignty, freedom and universality in the political thought of Rabindranath Tagore. Previously, she completed her MPhil from the Centre of South Asian Studies in Cambridge and received the CA Bayly Prize for best dissertation. Before that, she studied law at the University of Oxford and National Law University, Delhi. She has also worked as a lawyer in a prestigious law firm in India.
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Salmoli Choudhuri (2021) Theology of the “Absent King” and the Possibility of Rabindranath Tagore’s Political Thought, Political Theology, DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2021.2017537
Choudhuri, Salmoli. “Book Review: Imre Bangha (Ed.) Tagore. Beyond His Language.” South Asia Research 41, no. 3 (November 2021): 440–43. https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280211034676.
"Gender conflict over temple entry and the limits of legalizing identity politics in contemporary India", in Political Theology Network (June, 2021)
https://politicaltheology.com/gender-conflict-over-temple-entry-and-the-limits-of-legalizing-identity-politics-in-contemporary-india/
"Ambedkar's liberty concept in comparative constitutional thought", in MP Singh (ed) The Indian Yearbook of Comparative Law. OUP, 2016
Political commentaries published in dailies:
https://thewire.in/politics/bengal-assembly-polls-tmc-bjp-bhadralok-hindutva (April, 2021)
https://thewire.in/law/supreme-court-ayodhya-judgement-hindutva-sovereignty (November, 2019)
https://thewire.in/law/instant-triple-talaq-right-to-privacy-individual-community (October, 2017)