Niraja Gopal Jayal
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Academic Freedom in India Open
Higher education institutions (HEIs) in India have, since colonial times, been treated as appropriate objects of state control. This chapter examines the situation of academic freedom in India. Relying on the standardized research guidelin…
Reinventing the Republic: Faith and Citizenship in India Open
In India, a new legal regime and political ecosystem has been enacted for India’s Muslim minority that effectively undermines the constitutional commitment to secularism. This article examines the legal, political, social, moral, and inter…
“What is new is the comprehensive nature of the political assault on academic institutions”—An Interview with Niraja Gopal Jayal Open
Niraja Gopal Jayal is a professor at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. Her research, at the crossroads between political theory and the study of Indian politics, focuses on …
Reconfiguring Citizenship in Contemporary India Open
In this paper the author revisits her book, Citizenship and Its Discontents: An Indian History (2013), to examine its central themes—status, rights and identity—in relation to political developments in India since 2014. The paper argues an…