Lecture: "Social Citizenship in Western India"

Watson Institute, 4:30 pm

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

Professor Niraja Jayal Lectures on "In but not of the State: Claims to Social Citizenship in Western India"

Thursday, October 29 at 4:30PM
McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street.

Niraja Gopal Jayal is Professor at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Democracy and Development Program at Princeton University.

She is the author of Representing India: Ethnic Diversity and the Governance of Public Institutions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006) and Democracy and the State: Welfare, Secularism and Development in Contemporary India (Oxford University Press, 1999); and editor/co-editor of, among others, Democracy in India (2nd ed. 2007), Local Governance in India: Decentralisation and Beyond (2005) and The Oxford Companion to Politics in India (forthcoming). At Princeton, Jayal is working on a book on the Indian idea of citizenship in the twentieth century.

This lecture is part of the South Asian Politics seminar series being co-hosted by Brown, Harvard, and MIT.