Sanjay Seth

Biography and/or project

Sanjay Seth is Professor of Politics at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he is also Director of the Centre for Postcolonial Studies. He has written extensively on postcolonial theory, social and political theory, and modern Indian history. He is the author of Marxist Theory and Nationalist Politics: The Case of Colonial India (Sage 1995), Subject Lessons: The Western Education of Colonial India (Duke UP 2007 and OUP India 2008) and editor of Postcolonial Theory and International Relations: A Critical Introduction (Routledge 2013). His essays have appeared in a diverse range of journals, including Comparative Studies in Society and History, Social Text, Third World Quarterly, Journal of Asian Studies, Alternatives, American Historical Review, Positions, Ethics and International Affairs, International Political Sociology, and Postcolonial Studies. Some of these essays have been translated into Spanish, Portuguese and Slovenian. He is a founding co-editor of the international journal Postcolonial Studies (1998-).