Gurpreet Mahajan was Professor at the Centre for Political Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University. More recently, she was a Scholar of Excellence at Canadian Research Centre for Migration and Integration, Toronto Metropolitan University (2023) and Robert Schumann Fellow at European University Institute (2019). Writing on issues of difference, discrimination, equality, secularism and civil society, in a comparative framework, her work explores the particularity of the Indian experience and theorization. Her publications include Explanation and Understanding in the Human Sciences (OUP 1992; Second Edition 1997; Third Edition 2011), Identities and Rights: Aspects of Liberal Democracy in India (OUP 1998), The Multicultural Path: Issues of Diversity and Discrimination in Democracy (Sage 2002), and India: Political Ideas and the Making of a Democratic Discourse (Zed Books 2013).
