Dr. Karthick Ram Manoharan is Smuts Visiting Research Fellow at Cambridge University
October 6, 2025
Dr. Karthick Ram Manoharan, Assistant Professor, Social Sciences, National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bengaluru joined the Centre of South Asian Studies at the University of Cambridge as Smuts Visiting Research Fellow in October 2025.
He is currently working on the Indian Emergency and its implications for political theory; he is interested in engaging with works of and on Carl Schmitt for this project. Dr. Manoharan’s earlier research was on the Indian anti-caste thinker Periyar E.V. Ramasamy. He was also Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellow at the University of Wolverhampton working on the research project “Freedom from Caste: The Political Thought of Periyar E.V. Ramasamy in a Global Context” funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.
Dr Manoharan is the author of “Periyar: A Study in Political Atheism (2022)” and “Frantz Fanon: Identity and Resistance (2019),” and the co-editor of the volumes The Cambridge Companion to Periyar (2025) and Rethinking Social Justice (2020). He likes to work on critical political thinkers, pushing their thoughts in unconventional ways. (Source: Cambridge University website)