Former Professor, Department of Political Science Delhi University. Currently Visiting Professor, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi

Research Interests:  Political Theory, History of Ideas, Indian Politics, Comparative Politics

Publications - Books: 

2023, We, The People, And Our Constitution, Delhi, Speaking Tiger, 

2022, Nelson Mandela: Peace Through Reconciliation, London, Routledge.

2021, Violence in Our Bones: Mapping the Deadly Fault Lines Within Indian Society, Delhi, Aleph.

2019: Rethinking Pluralism, Secularism and Tolerance: Anxieties of Coexistence, Delhi Sage Publishers.

2015, Democracy and Revolutionary Politics, London, Bloomsbury.

2012, Contested Secessions; Rights, Self-Determination, Democracy and Kashmir, Delhi, Oxford University Press.

2009, Conceits of Civil Society, Delhi, Oxford University Press 

1999, Beyond Secularism: The Rights of Religious Minorities, Delhi Oxford University Press.

1995 State and Civil Society: Explorations in Political Theory, Delhi, Sage Publishers. 

Forthcoming India Languages of Freedom, Delhi Speaking Tiger.

Fellowships Awarded:

Fellow: 2015-2017 Centre for Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University 

Senior Fellow, 2013-2015, Indian Council of Social Science Research, Delhi

Professorial Fellow 2012-2013, Programme ‘Justitia Amplificata’, Philosophy Department, Goethe University Frankfurt 

International Fellow, 2010, Centre for Civil Society, London School of Economics, 

Jawaharlal Nehru Fellow, 1997-1999

Fellow, Centre for Contemporary Studies, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, 1989-1992

UGC Research Fellow 1979-1982