Niraja Gopal Jayal  

Niraja Gopal Jalyal is Professor at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University and currently on leave from the University as a Senior Fellow of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi. She is the author of Democracy and the State: Welfare, Secularism and Development in Contemporary India (Oxford University Press, 1999); co-author of Drought, Policy and Politics in India (Sage, 1993); and editor of Democracy in India (Oxford University Press, 2001). Her current research interests include the Indian idea of citizenship; gender and governance; decentralization; and environmental political theory. She is Director of the Ford Foundation project Dialogue on Democracy and Pluralism in South Asia.

EDUCATION:

• Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi
• Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
• University of Oxford

WORK HISTORY:

• Lecturer at Lady Shri Ram College (1981-82) and Miranda House (1982-86), both at the University of Delhi.
• Assistant and later Associate Professor at Centre for Political Studies, JNU (1986-2000)
• Professor at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, JNU (2000 - )
• Chairperson, Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, JNU (2001-03)
• Director, Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Study, JNU (2004-06)
• Senior Fellow, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi. (2006-  )

PUBLICATIONS:

Books:

Authored: 

Representing India: Ethnic Diversity and the Governance of Public Institutions. Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2006.

Democracy and the State: Welfare, Secularism and Development in Contemporary India.  Oxford University Press, Delhi. 1999.

Co-author (with Martha Nussbaum, Amrita Basu and Yasmin Tambiah) Essays on Gender and Governance. United Nations Development Programme, New Delhi. 2003

Co-author (with  Kuldeep  Mathur) Drought, Policy and  Politics in India. Sage Publications, Delhi. 1993

 

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