Sanjay Ruparelia

Sanjay Ruparelia is Associate Professor of Politics and the Jarislowsky Democracy Chair at Toronto Metropolitan University. His major publications include Divided We Govern (2015), The Indian Ideology (edited, 2015) and Understanding India’s New Political Economy (co-edited, 2011). He has published a range of papers in edited volumes and academic journals as well as opinion pieces in international media. 

Sanjay is a co-chair of Participedia, an international network that examines democratic innovations, contributing editor to Indian Politics and Policy and associate editor of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Asian Politics, as well as a country expert for V-Dem: the Varieties of Democracy Project. He hosts On the Frontlines of Democracy, a monthly podcast and lecture series, the latter with the Toronto Public Library. His research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, Johns Hopkins, Notre Dame, Princeton, Stellenbosch and Yale, as well as the Social Science Research Council (USA) and Social Science and Humanities Research Council (Canada). He previously taught at the New School for Social Research and Columbia University, and served as a consultant to the United Nations Development Programme and the Asia Foundation.