The talk analyses civil rights activism in Indian politics. It traces the path taken by voluntary and independent citizen groups to secure civil rights. In that backdrop the talk proposes some analytical insights to show how such activism was recieved, re-worked, and deployed to create a particular ethical practice of civil rights activism in a postcolonial context.

Dr Ankita Pandey is a Departmental Lecturer at the Modern South Asian Studies Programme at Oxford School of Global and Area Studies. She has previously taught at O.P. Jindal Global University, and at Delhi University, India. Her research focusses on citizenship in practice, civil society activism, social movements, and legal mobilisation.