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Gopal Guru is an Indian political scientist. He is the editor of the journal Economic and Political Weekly. [1] [2] He is a retired professor in political science at Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. [1] [3] He was a visiting professor at Columbia University, Oxford University and University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. [4] [5] Earlier, he taught at the University of Delhi and the University of Pune. [6]

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Gopal Guru is the author of numerous articles on Dalit discourse, women, politics and philosophy. [7] His specialisation includes Indian Political Thought, Humiliation, Social Movements etc. He is considered to be one of the high ranking academics to open up caste debates in the study of liberal arts in India. [1] [8] He pioneered new dimensions in the re-thinking of Dalit discourse with the introduction of critical theory in understanding questions of constructions and fallout of Dalit identity in India. His work primarily brings ethics back into theorizing and philosophizing Dalit discourses which, for decades, were lost in the debates of representational politics. [9] His academic works theorizes on the moral categories of self-respect, recognition, shame, dignity, humiliation and at the same time re-asserts a non-instrumentalist view of rationality in explaining matters of social justice. [4] [10]

He delivered the first in a series of eight open lectures delivered on the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus (17–24 February 2016), after the campus was branded anti-national by sangh parivar forces. [11] He said that, the nation cannot be defined in terms of borders alone, and contended that there has to be "radical rotation" in society, that the economic and social aspects of a nation should be considered together, and the economic should not get precedence over the social. [11] [12] He also argued that Gandhi took Ambedkar much more seriously than other thinkers and leaders, who were their contemporary like Rabindranath Tagore. [13]

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Important works

Gopal Guru has authored more than 120 articles and book chapters in various international journals and publishers. [3] [15] He also frequently writes in Indian Magazines and News Papers. [16] [17]

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  24. ↑ Bhargava, Rajeev (3 September 2009). Politics and Ethics of the Indian Constitution. Oxford India Paperbacks. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-806355-1.
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