'Another India': Decolonization, Humanistic Legacies, and Social Science Practice- Chandan Gowda

Chandan Gowda is Ramakrishna Hegde Chair Professor of Decentralization and Development at the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru. Apart from his recent book, Another India: Events, Memories, People (2023), he has edited Theatres of Democracy: Selected Essays of Shiv Visvanathan (2016), The Way I See It: A Gauri Lankesh Reader (2018) and A Life in the World (2019), a book of autobiographical interviews he did with UR Ananthamurthy. He has translated Kannada fiction and non-fiction into English, including UR Ananthamurthy’s novella Bara (2016). He has recently completed a book on the intellectual origins of development thought in colonial India and the cultural politics of building a modern economy.