RESUME
Name: Neera Chandhoke
Present Position:
Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi
Director, Developing Countries Research Centre, University of Delhi
Fellowships and Honours
 2011,Visiting Fellow, Centre for Ethics and Global Politics, Luiss University, Rome
 2010: National Swami Pranavananda Saraswati Award for Contributions to Political
Science, University Grants Commission, Delhi
 2009 Gaetano Mosca Chair, University of Turin, Turin,
 2008: Eminent Alumna Award, Lady Shriram College, University of Delhi, Delhi
 2007: International Visiting Fellowship, Centre for Civil Society, London School of
Economics and Political Science, London
 1999: Shastri-Indo Canadian Fellowship; Shastri Indo-Canadian Foundation, Delhi
 1997-1998: Jawaharlal Nehru National Fellowship, Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund,
New Delhi
 1989-1992: Fellow, Centre for Contemporary Studies, Nehru Memorial Museum and
Library, Teen Murti House, New Delhi
 1980-81: Teachers Fellow, University Grants Commission
Visiting Professorships
 University of Bergen, Norway, April 2005
 University of Punjab April 2005
 London School of Economics, U.K. March-July 2007
 Mosca Chair, University of Turin, April- July 2009
 Visiting Fellow, Centre for Ethics and Global politics, Luiss University, Rome, May
2011
Membership of Editorial/Advisory Boards of Academic Journals/Publications
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Democratization, (University of Warwick)
Journal of Development Studies (I.D.S Sussex)
Contemporary Politics, (University of Hong Kong)
International Encyclopaedia of Civil Society ( New York, Springer)
The Ethics Reference Project (On Line Encyclopaedia of Applied Ethics)
The European Journal of Development Research, (Journal of the European
Association of Development Research)
Published Work
Books
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2012, Contested Secessions: Rights, Democracy, Self-Determination and Kashmir,
New Delhi, Oxford University Press
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2003, The Conceits of Civil Society, New Delhi, Oxford University Press
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1999, Beyond Secularism: The Rights of Religious Minorities, New Delhi Oxford
University Press
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1995, State And Civil Society: Explorations in Political Theory, New Delhi, Sage
Edited Books
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2009, Contemporary India, New Delhi, Pearsons, (co-editor, Praveen Priyadarshi)
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2000, Mapping Histories, New Delhi, Tulika
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1996, Understanding The Post- Colonial World: Theory and Method, New Delhi,
Nehru Memorial Museum and Library
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1994, Grass-Root Politics and Social Transformation, Delhi, University of Delhi
Press, (co-editor, Ashish Ghosh)
Forthcoming: Protecting the Unprotected: Social Protection Policies in South Asia, New
Delhi, Routledge, (co-editor, Sanjay Agrawala)
Published Papers 2012-2002
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2012, ‘Whatever Has Happened to Civil Society?’ Economic and Political Weekly,
vol XLVII, no 23, 9 June, pp 39-45
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2012, Why People Should Not Be Poor, Economic and Political Weekly, vol XLVII,
no 14, 7 April 2012, pp 41-50
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2012 ‘Who Owes Whom, Why and to What Effect?’ in Sebastiano Maffetone and
Aakash Singh Rathore, edited Global Justice: Critical Perspectives, New Delhi,
Routledge, pp 143-162
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2011, ‘Civil Society in India’ in Michael Edwards, edited The Oxford Handbook of
Civil Society, Oxford, Oxford University Press
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2011 ‘Our Latest Democratic Predicament’, Economic and Political Weekly, vol
XLVI, no 19, May 7-13 2011, pp17-21
2010, ‘How Much is Enough Mr Thomas? How Much Will Ever be Enough?’ in
Alison Jagger edited, Pogge and his Critics, Cambridge, Polity, pp 66-83
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2010, ‘The Quest for Justice: Evoking Gandhi’ in Aakash Singh Rathore edited
Indian Political Thought, London, Routledge, pp 39-50
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2010, ‘Putting Civil Society in Its Place’ in Achin Vanaik and Rajeev Bhargava edited
Introducing Contemporary India, New Delhi, Orient Blackswan Private ltd, pp 91104
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2010’ When is Secession Justified? The Case of Kashmir” Economic and Political
Weekly, 13 November 2010
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2010,’ What Sort of a Right is the Right of Secession?’ Global Jurist, vol 10, ISS. 1
(Topics) Article 5, DOU 10.2202/1934-2640.1336.
http://www.bepress.com/gj/vol10/issI/art5
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2010 ‘Some Reflections on the Notion of an ‘inclusive political pact’: a perspective
from Ahmedabad’, LSE www.crisisstates.com London School of Economics and
Political Science (W.P 71, Series 2, March 2010).
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2009, ‘Civil Society in Conflict Cities: the case of Ahmedabad’
www.crisisstates.com London School of Economics and Political Science (W.P 64,
series 2, November 2009)
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2009, ‘What is the Relationship Between Participation and Representation?’ in Olle
Tornquist, Neil Webster, and Kristian Stokke, edited, Rethinking Popular
Representation, New York, Palgrave, Macmillan, pp 24-38.
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2009, ‘Why Should People Not Be Poor?’ in Thomas Pogge, edited Freedom from
Poverty as a Human Right, series editor Pierre Sane, Paris, UNESCO
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2009, ‘’Equality for What? Or the troublesome relation Between Egalitarianism and
Respect’ in Gopal Guru edited Humiliation: Claims and Contexts, New Delhi, Oxford
University Press, pp 140-162,
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2009, ‘Civil Society in Conflict Cities’ Economic and Political Weekly, vol XLIV, no
44, 31 October, pp 99-108.
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2009, ‘Putting Civil Society in Its Place’, Economic and Political Weekly, vol XLIV,
no 7, February 14-20, pp 12-15.
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2009, ‘Has the Wheel Turned Full Circle?’ (Special Section: Five Visions from Five
Continents), European Journal of Development Research, vol 21, issue 1, February.
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2009, Participation, Representation, and Democracy in Contemporary India’
American Behavioural Scientist, vol 52, issue 6, pp 807-825 DOI
10.1177/0002764208327660.
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2008, ‘Exploring the Linkages between Rights and Security in South Asia’ in N.C.
Behera edited International Relations in South Asia, New Delhi, Sage, pp 252-270.
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2008, ‘Quest for Justice: The Gandhian Perspective’ Economic and Political Weekly,
vol XLIII, no 18, 3-9 May, pp 37-46
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2008, ‘Exploring the Right to Secession: The South Asian Context’ South Asia
Research, vol 28, no 1, pp 1-22
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2008, ‘Unfinished Tasks of our Time’ Seminar Annual Number, January
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2008, ‘Three Myths About Reservations’ in Sukhdeo Thorat and Narendra Kumar,
edited In Search of Inclusive Policy; Jaipur, Rawat Publications, pp 209-214
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2007, ‘Democracy and Well Being in India’ in Yusuf Bangura edited, Democracy and
Social Policy, Macmillan Palgrave pp 164-187
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2007, ‘The Displaced of Ahmedabad’ Economic and Political Weekly, 27 October, vol
XLII, no 43, pp 10-14, with three others
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2007, ‘Global Civil Society and Global Justice’ Economic and Political Weekly, 2127 July, pp 3016-3026
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2007, ‘Civil Society’ Special Issue on Buzzwords, Development in Practice, vol 17,
no 4 and 5, August, pp 607-614
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2007, ‘Negotiating Linguistic Diversity: A Comparative Study of India and the United
States’ in K.S. Bajpai edited Democracy and Diversity: India and the American
Experience, Delhi, Oxford University Press, pp107-143
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2007, ‘Thinking Through Social and Economic Rights’ in Daniel A.Bell and Jean-Marc
Coicaud edited Ethics in Action: The Ethical Challenges of International Human Rights
Nongovernmental Organisations, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, United
Nations University, pp181-197
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2006, ‘Troubled Times: Secularism in India’ Public Policy Research, vol 13, 3,
September-October, pp 160-167
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2006, ‘A State of My Own: Secessionism and Federalism in India’ Occasional Paper
web site www.crisisstates.com, London School of Economics and Political Science,
September.
2006, ‘Electoral Politics in Post-Conflict Societies: Case of Punjab’ Economic and
Political Weekly, vol XLI, no 9, 4-10 March, pp 811-819 (co-authored with Praveen
Priyadarshi).
2005, ‘The Political Consequences of Ethnic Mapping’ Discussion Paper, web site
www.crisisstates.com, London School of Economics and Political Science, December.
2005, ‘Breaking Social Contracts’ Occasional Paper web site www.crisisstates.com,
London School of Economics and Political Science, December.
2005, ‘How Global is Global Civil Society?’ Journal of World Systems. Vol XI, no2,
December, special issue.
Also 2005, The Future of World Society edited by Mark Herkenrath, Claudia Konig,
Hanno Scholtz, and Thomas Volken, Zurich, Intelligent Publishers, pp 161-182.
2005, ‘Revisiting the Crisis of Representation Thesis: The Indian Context’
Democratization, June 2005, vol 12, no 3, pp 308-331.
2005,‘What the hell is “civil society”’ Open Democracy, 1 March 2005,
www.opendemocracy.com.
2005, ‘Exploring the Mythology of the Public Sphere’ in Rajeev Bhargava and
Helmut Reifeld edited Civil Society, Public Sphere And Citizenship: Dialogues and
Perceptions, Delhi, Sage, pp 327-347.
2005, ‘Revisiting the Crisis of Representation Thesis: The Indian Context’
Democratization, June 2005, vol 12, no 3, pp 308-331.
2005 ‘Seeing the State in India’ Economic and Political Weekly, 12-18 March,
pp1033-1040.
2005, ‘The Taming of Civil Society’ Seminar Annual issue on India 2004, January, no
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545, pp 55-59.
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2004, The Uncertainties of Dialogue’ Performance Research, vol 9, no 4, December,
pp 25-29
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2004, ‘Civil Society in Multilingual Polities’ in Marlies Glasius et al edited
Exploring Civil Society: Political and Cultural Contexts, London Routledge, pp 3643
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2004, ‘Re-presenting the Secular Agenda for India’ in Mushirul Hasan edited Will
Secular India Survive? Delhi, imprint one, pp 50-71
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2004, ‘The ‘Civil’ and the ‘Political’ in Civil Society’ in Peter Burnell and Peter
Calvert, edited Civil Society in Democratization, pp 143-166
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ibid in 2003 Civil Society and Democracy edited by Carolyn Elliot, New Delhi,
Oxford University Press, pp 238-262
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2003, ‘Transcending Categories: The Private, the Public, and the Search for Home’
in Gurpreet Mahajan and Helmut Reifeld, The Public and the Private, Delhi, Sage,
pp 181-204
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2003, ‘A Critique of the Notion of Civil Society as the ‘Third Sphere”’ in Rajesh
Tandon and Ranjita Mohanty edited Does Civil Society Matter? New Delhi, Sage, pp
27-58
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2002‘Individual and Group Rights: A View from India’ in Zoya Hasan, E Sridharan,
and R Sudarshan edited India’s Living Constitution Delhi. Permanent Black, pp 207241
Unpublished Project Reports
Globalisation and the State in India, funded by Ford Foundation 2004-2007