Sanjay Ruparelia
Biography
Dr. Sanjay Ruparelia is a Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at 成人大片, and holds the Jarislowsky Democracy Chair, made possible by a generous donation from the Jarislowsky Foundation.
In addition to a PhD in Politics from the University of Cambridge, Dr. Ruparelia holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours-Political Science) from McGill University and a Master of Philosophy (Sociology and Politics of Development) from the University of Cambridge.
Prior to joining the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Met, Dr. Ruparelia was Associate Professor of Politics at the New School for Social Research. Prior to the New School, he was assistant director of the South Asia Institute, a lecturer at Columbia University, and served as a consultant to the United Nations.
Refereed Journal Articles
- 鈥溾楳inimum government, maximum governance鈥: The restructuring of power in Modi鈥檚 India.鈥 South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 38: 4 (December 2015): 755-775.
- 鈥淚ndia鈥檚 new rights agenda: Genesis, promises, risks.鈥 Pacific Affairs 86:3 (September 2013): 569-590.
- 鈥淎 progressive juristocracy? The unexpected social activism of India鈥檚 Supreme Court.鈥 Kellogg Institute for International Studies 鈥 Working Paper #391, Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame, February 2013: 1-55.
- Revised and submitted as 鈥淎 semi-progressive juristocracy: The unexpected social activism of the Indian Supreme Court鈥 (under review)
- 鈥淗ow the politics of recognition enabled India鈥檚 democratic exceptionalism.鈥 International Journal for Politics, Culture and Society 21:4 鈥 Special Issue on the Work of Charles Taylor (December 2008): 39-56.
- 鈥淩ethinking institutional theories of political moderation: The case of Hindu nationalism in India, 1996-2004.鈥 Comparative Politics 38:3 (April 2006): 317-337.
- 鈥淢anaging the United Progressive Alliance: The challenges ahead.鈥 Economic & Political Weekly 40:24 (11 June 2005): 2407-2413.
Books
- The Indian Ideology: Three Responses to Perry Anderson (with Partha Chatterjee, Sudipta Kaviraj, Nivedita Menon). New Delhi: Orient Blackswan Pvt. Ltd., 2015.
- An earlier version appeared as 鈥淐ritical Reflections on Perry Anderson, The Indian Ideology.鈥 Constellations, 21: 2 (June 2014): 162-198.
- Divided We Govern: Coalition Politics in Modern India (London: Hurst & Company; New York and Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2015. Note: Reviews were published in:
- Journal of Asian Studies (August 2018)
- Asian Affairs (May 2017)
- Economic & Political Weekly (March 2017)
- Pacific Affairs (March 2017)
- Political Studies Review (February 2017)
- History and Sociology of South Asia (January 2017)
- Studies in Indian Politics (December 2016)
- The Book Review (September 2016)
- Mainstream (15 August 2016)
- Seminar # 680 (April 2016)
- Foreign Affairs (March/April 2016)
- Understanding India鈥檚 New Political Economy: A Great Transformation? (ed. with Sanjay Reddy, John Harriss and Stuart Corbridge). London: Routledge, 2011. Note: Reviews were published in:
- Pacific Affairs (March 2013)
- Progress in Development Studies (January 2014),
- Contemporary South Asia (January 2014),
- Commonwealth & Comparative Politics (September2014)
Book Chapters
- 鈥淐ontesting the right to law: Courts and constitutionalism in India and China.鈥 In Beyond Regimes: China and India Compared, ed. Prasenjit Duara and Elizabeth Perry, 99-142. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018.
- 鈥淕rowth, reforms and inequality: Comparing India and China鈥 (with Lopamudra Banerjee, Ashwini Deshpande, Yan Ming, Vamsicharan Vakulabharanam and Wei Zhong). In Transformation and Development: the political economy of transition in India and China Amiya, ed. K. Bagchi and Anthony P. D鈥機osta, 173-198. New Delhi: Oxford University Press: 2012.
- 鈥淚ntroduction: India鈥檚 transforming political economy鈥 (with Stuart Corbridge, John Harriss, and Sanjay Reddy). In Understanding India鈥檚 New Political Economy, ed. Sanjay Ruparelia, Sanjay Reddy, John Harriss and Stuart Corbridge, 1-16. London: Routledge, 2011.
- 鈥淓xpanding Indian democracy: The paradoxes of the third force.鈥 In Understanding India鈥檚 New Political Economy, ed. Sanjay Ruparelia, Sanjay Reddy, John Harriss and Stuart Corbridge, 186-203. London: Routledge, 2011.
- 鈥淒emocratic India and authoritarian East Asia: Are economic and political systems converging?鈥 In Responsible Development: vulnerable democracies, hunger and inequality Omar Noman, 167-191. London: Routledge, 2010.
- 鈥淕overnance and development in Afghanistan鈥 (with Ruth Rennie). In State Building, Security and Social Change in Afghanistan: Reflections on a Survey of the Afghan People, ed. Ruth Rennie, 113-140. Kabul: The Asia Foundation, 2008.
- 鈥淟ocal perceptions of the state of Afghanistan.鈥 In State Building, Political Progress, and Human Security in Afghanistan: Reflections on a Survey of the Afghan people, ed.George Varughese, 29-47. Kabul: The Asia Foundation, 2007.
- 鈥淭he temptations of presidentialism.鈥 In Rethinking Indian Political Institutions, ed. Subho Basu and Crispin Bates, 21-38. London: Anthem Press, 2005.
Book reviews
- Review of Why Regional Parties? Clientelism, Elites and the Indian Party System by Adam Ziegfeld (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016): 310pp. Pacific Affairs92:1 (March 2019): 165-167.
- Review of Minority Governments in India: The Puzzle of Elusive Majorities by Csaba Nikolenyi. (New York: Routledge, 2009): 192pp. Pacific Affairs 84:3 (September 2011): 594-596.
- Review of The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time by Jeffrey D. Sachs with a foreword by Bono (New York: Penguin Press, 2005): 320 pp. Ethics & International Affairs 20:3 (September 2006): 396-400.
- Review of Wages of Freedom: Fifty Years of the Indian Nation-State ed. by Partha Chatterjee (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998) 338 pp. Interventions 2:2 (2000): 285-287.
Papers and reports
- . Participant/Co-Signatory. Global Canada, September 2020.
- 鈥淢odi鈥檚 saffron democracy.鈥 Dissent (Spring 2019): 92-104.
- 鈥淧rogress despite regression: A study of the National Rural Health Mission in India, 2005-2018.鈥 Geneva: United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, December 2018), 68 pp.
- 鈥淭he role of judgment in explanations of politics.鈥 Political Methodology Working Paper29. International Political Science Association (IPSA) Committee on Concepts & Methods, May 2010.
- 鈥淐apacity, policy and accountability for sustainable human development: a conceptual framework.鈥 Background paper for the Development Effectiveness Report 2003. New York: United Nations Development Programme Evaluation Office, 2003.
- 鈥淭urning names into things: an examination of notions of culture in contemporary political discourse.鈥 McGill Journal of Political Studies 14 (Spring 1995): 45-79.
Work in progress: Books
- A New Path to Welfare: rights and constitutionalism in the global South (provisional title)
- Contesting a Right to Welfare: law, citizenship and accountability in India (provisional title)
- Oxford Encyclopedia for Asian Politics (Associate Editor)
Work in Progress: Papers
- 鈥淪ocial welfare rights in India: a critical analysis of their implementation, 2004-2019鈥
- 鈥淧aths to equality in India since independence鈥 (for Asian Survey special issue)
- 鈥淭he erosion of contemporary Indian democracy鈥 (for Journal of Asian Studies special issue)
- 鈥淩ights and the rule of law under Modi鈥
- 鈥淎 new route to welfare: rights and constitutionalism in the global South鈥
- 鈥淩econfigurations of development in the global South鈥
- 鈥淪truggling to see: the politics of sight in contemporary Indian welfare鈥
- 鈥淒efeat in victory? The judicial battle against political corruption in contemporary India
Dr. Ruparelia's research addresses the politics of democracy, equality and development in the postcolonial world, as well as the role of parties, movements and institutions in politics.
He is currently preparing two book manuscripts, provisionally titled Contesting a Right to Welfare: Law, Citizenship and Accountability in India and A New Path to Welfare: Rights and Constitutionalism in the Global South. The first examines the role, successes and failures of lawyers, activists and judges in advancing rights claims, socioeconomic welfare and political accountability in the world鈥檚 largest democracy since the 1970s. The second compares India鈥檚 experience vis-脿-vis analogous developments in China, South Africa and Brazil. It is part of a wider research agenda that analyzes the causes and ramifications of the countries' respective trajectories in the evolving world order.