Ashok Acharya

Ashok Acharya (Rice Visiting Lecturer in Global Justice and South Asian Studies), is Professor in the Department of Political Science and Joint Director, Developing Countries Research Centre at the University of Delhi. He is author of Equality, Difference and Group Rights: The Case of India, based on his dissertation research at the University of Toronto, and edited Citizenship in a Globalizing World (Pearson, 2012) and Political Theory: An Introduction (Pearson: 2008). His research interests encompass contemporary and comparative political theory, liberalism, affirmative action, equal opportunity, citizenship, rights, multiculturalism, and ethics and public policy.