Peter Ronald deSouza

Peter Ronald deSouza
Peter Ronald deSouza

Peter Ronald deSouza is a Professor at the Centre for Study of Developing Societies. He has recently published In the Hall of Mirrors: Reflections on Indian Democracy, Orient BlackSwan, New Delhi, 2018.

Macaulay’s Ghost: The Unimportance and Importance of English

What stand should one take between the campaign for decolonisation of the Indian mind and that giving pre-eminence to English? We ought to develop a universalism that is attentive to local cultures…
▶08-May-2023
Peter Ronald deSouza

In Good Conscience

Instead of seeing the different worlds in India as invaluable resources from which we can learn and which we can draw on to build a better nation, our state sows suspicion among us about each other.
▶17-Feb-2022
Peter Ronald deSouza

5 July 2021

The day Fr. Stan Swamy died marked a collective national failure; we are all guilty of his death, either by omission or by commission. We now need symbolic as well as bold gestures to reclaim the…
▶08-Jul-2021
Peter Ronald deSouza

The Intrinsic Limits of Hindutva as an Ideology of the Indian State

The BJP has built an electoral juggernaut but the mishandling of the pandemic has shown that Hindutva as an ideology is a handicap in the running of a modern state. The challenge to the BJP will come…
▶30-Jun-2021
Peter Ronald deSouza

‘Transgression’: Explaining contemporary India

Complex societal transformations can be assessed through their changing normative structures. One can analyse the different social domains in India by focussing on the key concept of ‘transgression’…
▶01-May-2019
Peter Ronald deSouza