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India in Transition
Kira Huju
March 25, 2024

Over the past few years of working as a critical scholar of International Relations (IR) toward “decolonizing” the discipline, I have learned to be careful what I wish for. To decolonize academic knowledge means interrogating the traditionally Western-centric forms of thought and inquiry that are presented as universal. It means unseating the West as the theoretical benchmark and empirical focus point and taking seriously the many ways in which imperial legacies shape contemporary international politics.