Manjeet Ramgotra

Manjeet Ramgotra is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory in the Department of Politics and International Studies at SOAS University of London. She was awarded an Independent Scholars Fellowship with the Independent Social Research Foundation in 2020. In April 2025, she was nominated to be a Founding Fellow of the UK Political Studies Association. Her research focuses on republicanism and its entanglements with imperialism in both the history of European political ideas and anti-colonial political thought. In particular, she examines postcolonial conceptions of the republic in the Indian independence movement. She is a strong advocate of decolonising the curriculum and co-edited a book on Decolonising Curricula and Pedagogy in Higher Education (Routledge, 2021). Her recent textbook Rethinking Political Thinkers (OUP, 2023) reimagines the field of political theory beyond the canon.