Sanjay Ruparelia
Dr. Sanjay Ruparelia is an Associate Professor of Politics and the inaugural Jarislowsky Democracy Chair at Toronto Metropolitan University. He is the author of Divided We Govern: Coalition Politics in Modern India, editor of The Indian Ideology, and co-editor of Understanding India’s New Political Economy: A Great Transformation?
Sanjay serves as co-chair of Participedia, an international network that studies democratic innovations, and co-hosts On the Frontlines of Democracy, a monthly podcast and lecture series with TMU School of Journalism and the Toronto Public Library, respectively. He regularly contributes essays and commentary to prominent media outlets in Canada and abroad.
His current research analyzes democratic backsliding, the contentious transformations of India and China over the last decade, and the evolution of rights, welfare, and constitutionalism in the global South.
