Niraja Gopal Jayal
Biographic Data
| ID | 202045 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Niraja Gopal Jayal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Niraja Gopal |
| FAMILY NAME | Jayal |
| SIGNATURE | JAYAL N G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jawaharlal Nehru University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 97 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Reinventing the Republic
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 international implications of an assemblage of law and policy—namely, the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019, as well as two other initiatives, the National Register of Citizens and the National Population Register—that …
What is new is the comprehensive nature of the political assault on academic institutions'-An Interview with Niraja Gopal Jayal
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 four main areas: democracy, representation, citizenship and governance (including local governance, and gender and governance). She is presently working on the crisis of the public university in India. Interview…
The imagined futures of the public university in India
Through an engagement with James Mittelman’s Implausible Dream: The World Class University and Repurposing Higher Education, this paper tracks the journey of the idea of World Class Universities in India, and its most recent iteration in the form of Institutions of Eminence. The structural crisis of governance in the public university system is related to the overweening role of the state in every aspect of its functioning, with the University Gr…
Reconfiguring Citizenship in Contemporary India
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 and provides evidence for, firstly, the greater consolidation of a jus sanguinis citizenship regime, with an attenuation of religion-neutral laws of citizenship; secondly, a shift from a rights-based conception of…
Citizenship
This chapter examines the question of citizenship in the Indian Constitution. It first considers the debate in the Indian Constituent Assembly over jus soli vs jus sanguinis citizenship, along with the constitutional settlement of citizenship and the key issues that are most contested—and remain central to—citizenship jurisprudence. It then turns to a discussion of four terms whose interpretation has been central to the case law on citizenship: d…
Contending representative claims in Indian democracy
This article essays an interpretation of representative claims articulated in the campaign for the Lok Sabha election of 2014, arguing that this election signals a shift from one dominant type of representative claim to another. The first two claims—the classical liberal view of political representation as an aggregation of preferences and descriptive representation—are embodied by the Congress Party and the social justice parties respectively. T…
Affirmative action in India
The inauguration of neo-liberal economic reforms in India coincided with a substantial expansion in the scope and coverage of affirmative action provisions. This article offers an explanation of this puzzle. However, while policies of affirmative action per se have not been adversely affected by the economic reforms, weaknesses of implementation persist, as seen in the poor outcomes for Dalits in terms of both public sector employment and poverty…
Le mouvement contre la corruption. Un printemps de la société civile indienne
L'année 2011 a été marquée, en Inde, par l'émergence d'un mouvement social d'un type nouveau, mené par un vieil activiste, Anna Hazare 1 . Ce mouvement propose de lutter contre la corruption à travers la création d'une institution, le Jan Lokpal, doté d'un grand pouvoir d'investigation, y compris sur les élus et le gouvernement. Ce mouvement a souvent été présenté, dans les médias - notamment français - comme un mouvement de masse contre la corru…
Citizenship and Its Discontents
Breaking new ground in scholarship, Niraja Jayal writes the first history of citizenship in the largest democracy in the world—India. Unlike the mature democracies of the west, India began as a true republic of equals with a complex architecture of citizenship rights that was sensitive to the many hierarchies of Indian society. In this provocative biography of the defining aspiration of modern India, Jayal shows how the progressive civic ideals e…
The Limits of Representative Democracy
We are conversant today with a variety of democratic deficits. There is the gap between the promise and performance of democracy; then there is also the gap between the success of procedural democr
The Challenge of Human Development
Inclusion, Citizenship, Democracy, Difference, Inequality, Human Development
New Directions in Theorising Social Accountability
No description available
Engendering local democracy
In 1992, India's Parliament enacted two constitutional amendments that sought to democratize local governance and engender it through quota-based reservations for women. This article asks whether participation in these institutions has enabled women to articulate and advance their interests. To evaluate this, the article deploys the distinction in feminist literature between strategic and practical gender interests. Through a survey of a wide ran…
Interrogating social capital
Introduction - Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya et al Social Capital, Panchayats and Grass Roots Democracy - Sudha Pai The Politics of Dalit Assertion in Two Districts of Uttar Pradesh Democracy and Social Capital in the Central Himalayas - Niraja Gopal Jayal A Tale of Two Villages Social Connectedness and the Fragility of Social Capital - Bishnu N Mohapatra A View from a Village in Orissa Is Civil Society the Answer? - Susanne Hoeber Rudolph Civic Commun…
A Malevolent Embrace? The BJP and Muslims in the Parliamentary Election of 2004
Do the new states tell a story about Indian federalism? Some comments on Maya Chadda's ‘integration through internal reorganization
Democratic governance in India
PART ONE: GOVERNANCE, POVERTY AND DEVELOPMENT Introduction - Niraja Gopal Jayal and Sudha Pai The State, Poverty and Development in India - Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik Political Authority, Public Deliberation and the Politics of Poverty Reduction - Bob Currie Strengthening Bureaucracy - Kuldeep Mathur State and Development in India Niraja Gopal Jayal Reinventing the State The Emergence of Alternative Models of Governance in India in the 1990…
Balancing Political and Ecological Values
(2001). Balancing Political and Ecological Values. Environmental Politics: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 65-88
Secularism, Identities and Representative Democracy
Research Article| August 01 1997 Secularism, Identities and Representative Democracy Niraja Gopal Jayal Niraja Gopal Jayal Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1997) 17 (2): 11–20. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-17-2-11 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Niraja Gopal Jayal; Secularism, Identities and Representative Democrac…
The Gentle Leviathan
In the twin context of challenges to the welfare state in the west, and the policies of economic reform initiated in India, it is widely believed that the Indian state is reneging on its welfare promises, and thereby compromising its fundamental defining ideals. A re-examination, however,suggests the need to bring into question the received orthodoxy that India is or ever was a welfare state in the sense in which westem political theory and pract…
Drought Management in India
Engendering local democracy
In 1992, India's Parliament enacted two constitutional amendments that sought to democratize local governance and engender it through quota-based reservations for women. This article asks whether participation in these institutions has enabled women to articulate and advance their interests. To evaluate this, the article deploys the distinction in feminist literature between strategic and practical gender interests. Through a survey of a wide ran…
Reconfiguring Citizenship in Contemporary India
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 and provides evidence for, firstly, the greater consolidation of a jus sanguinis citizenship regime, with an attenuation of religion-neutral laws of citizenship; secondly, a shift from a rights-based conception of…
Citizenship and Its Discontents
Breaking new ground in scholarship, Niraja Jayal writes the first history of citizenship in the largest democracy in the world—India. Unlike the mature democracies of the west, India began as a true republic of equals with a complex architecture of citizenship rights that was sensitive to the many hierarchies of Indian society. In this provocative biography of the defining aspiration of modern India, Jayal shows how the progressive civic ideals e…
Reinventing the Republic
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 international implications of an assemblage of law and policy—namely, the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019, as well as two other initiatives, the National Register of Citizens and the National Population Register—that …
Affirmative action in India
The inauguration of neo-liberal economic reforms in India coincided with a substantial expansion in the scope and coverage of affirmative action provisions. This article offers an explanation of this puzzle. However, while policies of affirmative action per se have not been adversely affected by the economic reforms, weaknesses of implementation persist, as seen in the poor outcomes for Dalits in terms of both public sector employment and poverty…
Contending representative claims in Indian democracy
This article essays an interpretation of representative claims articulated in the campaign for the Lok Sabha election of 2014, arguing that this election signals a shift from one dominant type of representative claim to another. The first two claims—the classical liberal view of political representation as an aggregation of preferences and descriptive representation—are embodied by the Congress Party and the social justice parties respectively. T…
The Limits of Representative Democracy
We are conversant today with a variety of democratic deficits. There is the gap between the promise and performance of democracy; then there is also the gap between the success of procedural democr
The Challenge of Human Development
Inclusion, Citizenship, Democracy, Difference, Inequality, Human Development
New Directions in Theorising Social Accountability
No description available
A Malevolent Embrace? The BJP and Muslims in the Parliamentary Election of 2004
Balancing Political and Ecological Values
(2001). Balancing Political and Ecological Values. Environmental Politics: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 65-88
The Gentle Leviathan
In the twin context of challenges to the welfare state in the west, and the policies of economic reform initiated in India, it is widely believed that the Indian state is reneging on its welfare promises, and thereby compromising its fundamental defining ideals. A re-examination, however,suggests the need to bring into question the received orthodoxy that India is or ever was a welfare state in the sense in which westem political theory and pract…
Do the new states tell a story about Indian federalism? Some comments on Maya Chadda's ‘integration through internal reorganization
Drought Management in India
The Gentle Leviathan
In the twin context of challenges to the welfare state in the west, and the policies of economic reform initiated in India, it is widely believed that the Indian state is reneging on its welfare promises, and thereby compromising its fundamental defining ideals. A re-examination, however,suggests the need to bring into question the received orthodoxy that India is or ever was a welfare state in the sense in which westem political theory and pract…
Secularism, Identities and Representative Democracy
Research Article| August 01 1997 Secularism, Identities and Representative Democracy Niraja Gopal Jayal Niraja Gopal Jayal Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1997) 17 (2): 11–20. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-17-2-11 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Niraja Gopal Jayal; Secularism, Identities and Representative Democrac…
Democratic governance in India
PART ONE: GOVERNANCE, POVERTY AND DEVELOPMENT Introduction - Niraja Gopal Jayal and Sudha Pai The State, Poverty and Development in India - Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik Political Authority, Public Deliberation and the Politics of Poverty Reduction - Bob Currie Strengthening Bureaucracy - Kuldeep Mathur State and Development in India Niraja Gopal Jayal Reinventing the State The Emergence of Alternative Models of Governance in India in the 1990…
Balancing Political and Ecological Values
(2001). Balancing Political and Ecological Values. Environmental Politics: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 65-88
Do the new states tell a story about Indian federalism? Some comments on Maya Chadda's ‘integration through internal reorganization
Interrogating social capital
Introduction - Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya et al Social Capital, Panchayats and Grass Roots Democracy - Sudha Pai The Politics of Dalit Assertion in Two Districts of Uttar Pradesh Democracy and Social Capital in the Central Himalayas - Niraja Gopal Jayal A Tale of Two Villages Social Connectedness and the Fragility of Social Capital - Bishnu N Mohapatra A View from a Village in Orissa Is Civil Society the Answer? - Susanne Hoeber Rudolph Civic Commun…
A Malevolent Embrace? The BJP and Muslims in the Parliamentary Election of 2004
Engendering local democracy
In 1992, India's Parliament enacted two constitutional amendments that sought to democratize local governance and engender it through quota-based reservations for women. This article asks whether participation in these institutions has enabled women to articulate and advance their interests. To evaluate this, the article deploys the distinction in feminist literature between strategic and practical gender interests. Through a survey of a wide ran…
New Directions in Theorising Social Accountability
No description available
The Limits of Representative Democracy
We are conversant today with a variety of democratic deficits. There is the gap between the promise and performance of democracy; then there is also the gap between the success of procedural democr
The Challenge of Human Development
Inclusion, Citizenship, Democracy, Difference, Inequality, Human Development
Citizenship and Its Discontents
Breaking new ground in scholarship, Niraja Jayal writes the first history of citizenship in the largest democracy in the world—India. Unlike the mature democracies of the west, India began as a true republic of equals with a complex architecture of citizenship rights that was sensitive to the many hierarchies of Indian society. In this provocative biography of the defining aspiration of modern India, Jayal shows how the progressive civic ideals e…
Le mouvement contre la corruption. Un printemps de la société civile indienne
L'année 2011 a été marquée, en Inde, par l'émergence d'un mouvement social d'un type nouveau, mené par un vieil activiste, Anna Hazare 1 . Ce mouvement propose de lutter contre la corruption à travers la création d'une institution, le Jan Lokpal, doté d'un grand pouvoir d'investigation, y compris sur les élus et le gouvernement. Ce mouvement a souvent été présenté, dans les médias - notamment français - comme un mouvement de masse contre la corru…
Affirmative action in India
The inauguration of neo-liberal economic reforms in India coincided with a substantial expansion in the scope and coverage of affirmative action provisions. This article offers an explanation of this puzzle. However, while policies of affirmative action per se have not been adversely affected by the economic reforms, weaknesses of implementation persist, as seen in the poor outcomes for Dalits in terms of both public sector employment and poverty…
Contending representative claims in Indian democracy
This article essays an interpretation of representative claims articulated in the campaign for the Lok Sabha election of 2014, arguing that this election signals a shift from one dominant type of representative claim to another. The first two claims—the classical liberal view of political representation as an aggregation of preferences and descriptive representation—are embodied by the Congress Party and the social justice parties respectively. T…
Citizenship
This chapter examines the question of citizenship in the Indian Constitution. It first considers the debate in the Indian Constituent Assembly over jus soli vs jus sanguinis citizenship, along with the constitutional settlement of citizenship and the key issues that are most contested—and remain central to—citizenship jurisprudence. It then turns to a discussion of four terms whose interpretation has been central to the case law on citizenship: d…
The imagined futures of the public university in India
Through an engagement with James Mittelman’s Implausible Dream: The World Class University and Repurposing Higher Education, this paper tracks the journey of the idea of World Class Universities in India, and its most recent iteration in the form of Institutions of Eminence. The structural crisis of governance in the public university system is related to the overweening role of the state in every aspect of its functioning, with the University Gr…
Reconfiguring Citizenship in Contemporary India
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 and provides evidence for, firstly, the greater consolidation of a jus sanguinis citizenship regime, with an attenuation of religion-neutral laws of citizenship; secondly, a shift from a rights-based conception of…
What is new is the comprehensive nature of the political assault on academic institutions'-An Interview with Niraja Gopal Jayal
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 four main areas: democracy, representation, citizenship and governance (including local governance, and gender and governance). She is presently working on the crisis of the public university in India. Interview…
Reinventing the Republic
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 international implications of an assemblage of law and policy—namely, the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019, as well as two other initiatives, the National Register of Citizens and the National Population Register—that …
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