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Alok Oak
Alok Oak is a PhD researcher at the Leiden Institute for Area Studies, University of Leiden, the Netherlands. He is completing his dissertation on the political philosophy of the prominent Indian nationalist thinker Bal Gangadhar Tilak in the context of the intellectual history of late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His recent publications include “What Does the Shastra Have to Say? The Age of Consent Bill Controversy and the Reimagination of Hinduism in Modern Western India,” in Alberica Bazzoni and Adele Bardazzi edited Gender and Authority Across Disciplines, Space and Time, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, pp. 171–194.