Sanjay Ruparelia

Sanjay Ruparelia is Associate Professor of Politics, and Faculty Advisor at the India China Institute, at the New School for Social Research. His current project investigates the rise of rights-based constitutionalism to expand social welfare and political accountability in the global South. He is currently writing a book, provisionally titled Contesting a Right to Welfare: Law, Citizenship and Accountability in India, which explains its genesis, character and ramifications in the world’s largest democracy since the 1970s, and a set of papers that analyze comparative developments in China, South Africa and Brazil.