Ankit Kawade
Graduate Associate
Department of Political Science
Johns Hopkins University
Email: [email protected]
Website: Personal / faculty page
Biography
Ankit Kawade is a PhD student in political theory at the Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University. His research interests include Indian Political Thought, Continental Philosophy, Caste, Political Ecology, and Animal Studies.
Selected publications
- Article · 2025 Pleas to the Foreigner: Caste, Race, Internationalism, and Diplomacy in Ambedkar’s Political Thought The Hague Journal of Diplomacy Ambedkar's thinking on caste and race, and his non-national internationalism, as a challenge to Indian diplomacy.
- Article · 2025 The Age of a Thinker: On Mukta Salve’s Dukkha Economic & Political Weekly Argues that dukkha in Mukta Salve's 1855 essay means 'suffering', placing it in a tradition reaching back to the Buddha.
- Article · 2021 Clearing of the Ground - Ambedkar's Method of Reading: Bluestone Rising Scholar Honorable Mention 2021 CASTE / A Global Journal on Social Exclusion Sets out Ambedkar's method of reading Hindu texts, especially the Manusmriti.
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