Rajshree Chandra

Rajshree Chandra is an academic, a teacher and an author. Her research interest, and most of her writing, is primarily at the intersection of political philosophy, law and politics. She is the author of two previous books titled, The Cunning of Rights (2016) and Knowledge as Property (2010). She has also written several political commentaries for newspapers and news portals. Chandra has received the UKERI (UK-India Research Initiative) award for research collaboration, the ICSSR post-doctoral award, the Australia India Institute’s ELF award, the IWM (Institute of Human Sciences, Vienna) visiting fellowship, and the New India Foundation fellowship, the result of which is this book—a political biography of her grandfather, rendered through the prism of nationalist history. Rajshree Chandra is a professor of political science at Janki Devi Memorial College, Delhi University, and is a senior visiting fellow at Centre for Policy Research.