K K Kailash

Department of Political Science

[Dept of Political Science, University of Hyderabad @uohpolsci]

@HydUniv hosted its 26th Convocation Ceremony. Hearty congratulations to Dr. @i_anagha on being conferred the Chancellor's Award and to all PhD & PG graduates. Wishing you continued success and distinction ahead!

@School_SocialSc @CommunitasPolSc
#UoHConvocation #UoHPride

[Univ of Hyderabad @HydUniv]

🎯 How ordinary citizens built an extraordinary democracy! 🇮🇳✨

The Department of Political Science at University of Hyderabad hosted a book discussion featuring Professors Rohit De (Yale University) and Ornit Shani (University of Haifa) on their book, Assembling India’s Constitution: A New Democratic History! 📚🏛️

Key highlights from the discussion:

📍 Beyond the Assembly: Constitution-making extended far beyond elite debates in New Delhi. Thousands of petitions, letters, and regional discussions showed how everyday citizens across provinces and princely states shaped the founding text.
📍 Public Reasoning: Diverse groups framed community-specific demands through shared public reasoning, turning constitutionalism into an active medium for social transformation.
📍 Diverse "Publics": The authors emphasized how distinct local and regional "publics"—from district groups to the Khasi public—negotiated federalism, minority protections, and rights.
📍 Nuanced Debates: Discussants and faculty explored critical questions on economic rights, constitutional discretion, and how pressures from below influenced the final text adopted in 1949.

Special thanks to Head of Department Prof. K.Y. Ratnam, Session Chair Prof. Jyotirmaya Sharma, and discussants Anupama S. Krishnan, Dr. Anagha Ingole, and Prof. K.K. Kailash for an engaging session! 🙌💡

#IndianConstitution #UniversityOfHyderabad #PoliticalScience #ConstitutionalHistory #DemocraticHistory #BookTalk #HigherEducation #Academia

@EduMinOfIndia @JoshiPralhad @ugc_india @mygovindia @PTI_News @PIB_India

[K K Kailash @kailashkk]

@sayantanbera Super insightful....

[Sayantan Bera @sayantanbera]

India's education-entrance-coaching-jobs crisis has nothing to do with 'merit'
Sharing a few quotes and, a writing on the wall:
Mint Long Story:
read more (paywall unlocked): https://t.co/PskNCEAP6K

[Dept of Political Science, University of Hyderabad @uohpolsci]

@barua_satyaki PhD Scholar, presented a paper “Rethinking Party Organisation: A study of Trinamool Congress in West Bengal, India” at the Modern South Asia Workshop in Colombo from 11-13 June.

@HydUniv @YaleMacMillan @ices_lk
#UoH #SouthAsianStudies #PartyPolitics
#MSAW2026

[Dept of Political Science, University of Hyderabad @uohpolsci]

@ShreyakSugathan presented two papers at the European Conference on Politics and Gender, organised by the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) at Newcastle University Newcastle University from 15-17th June.

@HydUniv, @ECPR, @UniofNewcastle
#ECPG #PoliticsAndGender

[Dept of Political Science, University of Hyderabad @uohpolsci]

@uohpolsci invites for a book talk on
"WAGES FOR HOUSEWORK: India's Experiment with Unconditional Cash Transfers to Women" with @pkotiswaran, King's College London.

13 Aug 2026, 3:00 PM
📍Seminar Hall, Dept of Political Science, SSS

@HydUniv @KCL_Law
#UoH #BookTalk

[Univ of Hyderabad @HydUniv]

🏛️ Experiential Learning Beyond the Classroom: Political Science Students Explore US Constitutional History 📚✨

Second-year students from the Department of Political Science, University of Hyderabad (UoH), recently visited the American Corner at St. Francis College for Women, Begumpet, for ‘The White House Founders Museum’ exhibition. Organized by the US Consulate General Hyderabad in collaboration with St. Francis College, the exhibition provided students with a vivid overview of key milestones in American politics and constitutional development. 🇺🇸🤝🇮🇳

During the guided tour, students connected historical milestones with core concepts in governance, representation, and constitutional frameworks.

A key highlight was an insightful session by Joshua Patalsky from the US Consulate General Hyderabad, who spoke on the enduring legacy of John Adams—a Founding Father, member of the Continental Congress, and the second President of the United States. He illustrated how early American institutions were shaped and how founding principles continue to influence democratic governance today. 📜⚖️

The interactive Q&A session that followed saw our students actively engaging on topics ranging from constitutional evolution to contemporary public policy challenges. 💡❓

Special thanks to Mr. K Ravi Kumar, Coordinator of the American Corner & Assistant Professor at St. Francis College for Women, for delivering the vote of thanks and extending warm hospitality. 🤝

Kudos to Dr. Anju Helen Bara and Dr. S. Shaji, Associate Professors at the Department of Political Science, UoH, for coordinating this enriching educational visit and providing our students with invaluable real-world insights! 🎓🚀

#UniversityOfHyderabad #PoliticalScience #ConstitutionalHistory #USConsulateHyderabad #ExperientialLearning #AmericanCorner #HigherEducation #Governance #Democracy #AlumniAndStudents #AcademicExcellence

@EduMinOfIndia @JoshiPralhad @ugc_india @mygovindia @PTI_News @PIB_India @uohpolsci @HydUniv

[Seema Chishti @seemay]

The absence of a Central Hall in the new building says a lot.
Many nuggets and a sweeping sense of our times and their context in @SobhanaNair ‘s new book on the Indian Parliament building - Housing the Republic

[Ashish Joshi @bismil_prasad]

STOP THIS NONSENSE!
Why must ordinary citizens suffer every year? Ambulances, patients, daily wage workers, trucks carrying essentials, students, families , all held hostage for 8–9 days while a major National Highway is turned into a private corridor.

How can public roads be blocked like this?
Supreme Court has been clear:
“You cannot block all the roads… That has nothing to do with religion. You do your religious activity, but not by blocking the roads. The State can always step in to regulate.”
(Justice Nagarathna, April 2026)

Public highways are not anyone’s private property. Article 19(1)(d) guarantees every citizen the right to move freely. Occupying or completely sealing public ways for days on end has already been held unacceptable (Shaheen Bagh judgment principle applies equally here).

Faith is personal. Blocking National Highways is a public nuisance that forces millions to pay the price.
Enough is enough.

[Roshan Kishore @Roshanjnu]

What explains the widespread participation in students' protests?

The issue (paper leaks) might have unlocked an anxiety driven protest threshold for a group which was seeing the the labour mkt stall but not yet part of it.

I explain with help from @naalmot & @Shreyaecon

[suhas palshikar @PalshikarSuhas]

As large Protest Movements, the JP movement (1974-75) and the Anti- corruption movement (2011-13) stand out as good precedents to compare the Cockroach movement.. 1/15

[Communitas (Dept. of Political Science, UoH) @CommunitasPolSc]

Communitas and the Students of the Department of Political Science, University of Hyderabad Stand in Support with Sonam Wangchuk and Students protesting at Jantar Mantar.

[K K Kailash @kailashkk]

@think_in_points Schenghen

[Dept of Political Science, University of Hyderabad @uohpolsci]

@uohpolsci is proud to share the work of @ganeshwar_s, a researcher working on Periyar's political thought, who has curated and maintained the Periyar Archive: an independent digital humanities project.

Access here: https://t.co/EnlOPxzS0N

@HydUniv

#UoH #DigitalHumanities

[Dept of Political Science, University of Hyderabad @uohpolsci]

Anupama S Krishnan, PhD scholar presented a paper titled "Rethinking Participation: Dissent, Resistance and Local Democratic Engagement among Kerala's Coastal Communities" at Young Researchers' Conference 2026, IISER Pune, @IISERPune on July 6-8.

@HydUniv @CommunitasPolSc

[Ashish Joshi @bismil_prasad]

"One Nation One Election is sold as a simple fix — vote once, save money, end the permanent campaign.

Look closer, and it isn't a scheduling reform at all. It's a rewiring of the federal compact.

A former Chief Justice, a former Chief Election Commissioner, a public-policy scholar, a diplomat and several others have taken the ONOE bill apart, and what they found is buried in the fine print:

▪️ A mid-term voter's vote would be worth less than a full-term one — a model "found nowhere in the world."

▪️ The "policy paralysis" argument for ONOE is a myth — from a man who ran the Election Commission.

▪️ The 80% public support the government cites came from a form issued "only in Hindi and English."

The real catch: ONOE would hand a government-appointed Election Commission the power to decide which states vote — and which wait." - @theprobeindia
https://t.co/uj0gQF6XkC @premasridevi

[Ashish Joshi @bismil_prasad]

Citizens of India, Beware , the presumption of Citizenship has been inverted.

For seventy-five years, the state presumed you were a citizen, and had to prove otherwise. Now the burden has been flipped onto you.

No one at the conclave named that reversal more precisely than Dr Niraja Jayal, a scholar of Indian citizenship.

The Constitution and the Citizenship Act of 1955, she reminded the room, were built on the principle of unconditional jus soli — citizenship by birth on the soil. Underlying it was something simpler still: a presumption of belonging.

"The foundational conception of universal, equal citizenship in our Constitution," Jayal said, "was underpinned by a presumption of citizenship. That presumption of universal citizenship is being replaced, as we speak, by a presumption of universal alienage."

Alienage — the presumption that a person is a foreigner until shown otherwise — was, in her account, the thread connecting a set of developments that are usually reported as separate stories.

"It is the principle underlying the NRC. It is the principle underlying the SIR. It is also the principle underlying the latest salvo against passport holders." Each arrives dressed as something routine. "One day it is an amendment to the law on citizenship. Another day it is a new method for the routine task of revising electoral rolls. Yet another day it is a throwaway comment about whether passports constitute proof of citizenship or not. But all of these are tending towards the same purpose, the same objective — the presumption of alienage."

https://t.co/kgj8Jt7uGf @theprobeindia @premasridevi @consticonduct

[Peoples Integration Council @PIC_Delhi]

To Say Passport Is Only A Travel Document Is Complete Misreading Of Law: Justice Lokur Criticises MEA Stand

#Passport #Citizenship #Law

https://t.co/5n2rIDQYky
https://t.co/5n2rIDQYky

[S.R.Praveen @myopiclenses]

Review of 'Ticket to Kerala: The Story of Malayalam Cinema' in @thenewsminute .
Link - https://t.co/pRPhGaxYLQ