Rajeev Bhargava is Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies and the Director of its Programme of Social and Political Theory. He was formerly Professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University and between 2001 and 2005, Professor of Political theory and Indian Political Thought and Head of the Department of Political Science, University of Delhi. His publications include Individualism in Social Science, (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1992,) Secularism and its Critics ed. (OUP, New Delhi, 1998), Civil Society, Public Sphere and Citizenship (ed. with H. Reifeld, Sage, 2005).