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'''Gopal Guru''' is an Indian Political Scientist. He is the editor of the journal ''[[Economic and Political Weekly]].''<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Political Scientist Gopal Guru Appointed New Editor of EPW|url=https://thewire.in/media/epw-gopal-guru-sameeksha-trust|access-date=2021-05-13|website=The Wire}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|others=PTI|date=2018-01-04|title=Professor Gopal Guru appointed Editor of EPW|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/prof-gopal-guru-appointed-editor-of-epw/article22368565.ece|access-date=2021-05-13|issn=0971-751X}}</ref> He is a retired professor in political science at Centre for Political Studies, [[Jawaharlal Nehru University]].<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=Gopal Guru|url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8Q8d2kwAAAAJ&hl=en|access-date=2021-05-13|website=scholar.google.com}}</ref> He was a visiting professor at [[Columbia University]], [[University of Oxford|Oxford University]] and [[University of Pennsylvania]], Philadelphia.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|date=2013-08-19|title=Gopal Guru|url=https://casi.sas.upenn.edu/visiting/guru|access-date=2021-05-13|website=Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI)|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=15th Dr. Ambedkar Memorial Lecture (AML) 2019: 'Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar's Thoughts on Moral Foundation of Democracy' {{!}} TISS|url=https://www.tiss.edu/view/5/homepage-data/homepage-events-and-announcements/15th-dr-ambedkar-memorial-lecture-aml-2019-dr-baba/|access-date=2021-05-13|website=www.tiss.edu}}</ref> Earlier, he taught at the [[Delhi University|University of Delhi]] and the [[University of Pune]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=PLENARY SPEAKERS BIOS {{!}} International Conference on Caste and Race: Reconfiguring Solidarities|url=https://engagement.umass.edu/crrs/content/plenary-speakers-bios|access-date=2021-05-13|website=engagement.umass.edu}}</ref>

== Career ==
Gopal Guru is the author of numerous articles on Dalit discourse, women, politics and philosophy.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Wire.in|first=The|date=2018-01-06|title=Gopal Guru appointed new editor of Economic and Political Weekly|work=Business Standard India|url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/gopal-guru-appointed-new-editor-of-economic-and-political-weekly-118010600047_1.html|access-date=2021-05-13}}</ref> His specialisation includes Indian Political Thought, Humiliation, Social Movements etc. He is considered to be one of the high ranking academics to open up caste debates in the study of liberal arts in India.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-04-06|title=Campus with a difference|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/jnu-hcu-indian-universities-campus-with-a-difference/|access-date=2021-05-13|website=The Indian Express|language=en}}</ref> He pioneered new dimensions in the re-thinking of Dalit discourse with the introduction of critical theory in understanding questions of constructions and fallout of Dalit identity in India. His work primarily brings ethics back into theorizing and philosophizing Dalit discourses which, for decades, were lost in the debates of representational politics.<ref>{{Cite web|title=GURU, Gopal|url=https://globalsocialtheory.org/thinkers/guru-gopal/|access-date=2021-05-13|website=GLOBAL SOCIAL THEORY|language=en-GB}}</ref> His academic works theorizes on the moral categories of self-respect, recognition, shame, dignity, humiliation and at the same time re-asserts a non-instrumentalist view of rationality in explaining matters of social justice.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web|last=Guru|first=Gopal|title=Was the displacement of Pandits a greater tragedy than the displacement of Dalits?|url=http://scroll.in/article/809896/was-the-displacement-of-pandits-a-greater-tragedy-than-the-displacement-of-dalits|access-date=2021-05-13|website=Scroll.in|language=en-US}}</ref>

He delivered the first in a series of eight open lectures delivered on the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus (February 17–24, 2016), after the campus was branded anti-national by sangh parivar forces.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|last=Dixit|first=Shubhra|title=The nation cannot be defined in terms of borders alone: watch JNU Professor Gopal Guru's historic public lecture|url=https://scroll.in/video/803731/the-nation-cannot-be-defined-in-terms-of-borders-alone-watch-jnu-professor-gopal-guru-s-historic-public-lecture|access-date=2021-05-13|website=Scroll.in|language=en-US}}</ref> He said that, the nation cannot be defined in terms of borders alone, and contended that there has to be "radical rotation" in society, that the economic and social aspects of a nation should be considered together, and the economic should not get precedence over the social.<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite news|last=Ramani|first=Srinivasan|date=2016-02-25|title=Nationalism that's progressive|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|url=https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/Nationalism-that%E2%80%99s-progressive/article14097866.ece|access-date=2021-05-13|issn=0971-751X}}</ref> He also argued that [[Mahatma Gandhi|Gandhi]] took [[B. R. Ambedkar|Ambedkar]] much more seriously than other thinkers and leaders, who were their contemporary like [[Rabindranath Tagore]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-11-27|title=Mahatma Gandhi took BR Ambedkar much more seriously than others: JNU professor|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/mahatma-gandhi-took-br-ambedkar-much-more-seriously-than-others-jnu-professor-4397352/|access-date=2021-05-13|website=The Indian Express|language=en}}</ref>

== Awards ==

* He received [[Malcolm Adiseshiah|Malcolm Adiseshiah Award]] for Distinguished Contribution to Development Studies for 2013–14.<ref>{{Cite news|others=Special Correspondent|date=2013-04-19|title=Malcolm Adiseshiah award for Gopal Guru|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/malcolm-adiseshiah-award-for-gopal-guru/article4631199.ece|access-date=2021-05-13|issn=0971-751X}}</ref>

== Important Works ==
Gopal Guru has authored more than 120 articles and book chapters in various international journals and publishers.<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite web|date=2015-06-05|title=Gopal Guru|url=https://www.epw.in/author/gopal-guru|access-date=2021-05-13|website=Economic and Political Weekly|language=en}}</ref> He also frequently writes in Indian Magazines and News Papers.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Gopal guru {{!}} Latest News on Gopal-guru {{!}} Breaking Stories and Opinion Articles|url=https://www.firstpost.com/tag/gopal-guru|access-date=2021-05-13|website=Firstpost}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Articles by Gopal Guru|url=https://magazine.outlookindia.com/author/gopal-guru/10311|access-date=2021-05-13|website=magazine.outlookindia.com/}}</ref>

=== Books ===

* Gopal Guru (ed). ''Humiliation: Claims and Context'', [[Oxford University Press]] (2009), New Delhi.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9100104|title=Humiliation: claims and context|date=2011|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-807492-2|editor-last=Guru|editor-first=Gopal|series=Oxford India paperbacks|location=New Delhi ; New York, NY}}</ref>
* Gopal Guru & Sunder Sarukkai. ''The Cracked Mirror'', [[Oxford University Press]] (2017), New Delhi.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Guru|first1=Gopal|url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-cracked-mirror-9780199474592?lang=en&cc=au|title=The Cracked Mirror: An Indian Debate on Experience and Theory|last2=Sarukkai|first2=Sundar|date=2017-07-27|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-947459-2|location=Oxford, New York}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Giri|first=Ananta Kumar|date=2014-10-01|title=Book Review: Gopal Guru and Sundar Sarukkai. 2012. The Cracked Mirror: An Indian Debate on Experience and Theory|url=https://doi.org/10.1177/0069966714540237|journal=Contributions to Indian Sociology|language=en|volume=48|issue=3|pages=445–449|doi=10.1177/0069966714540237|s2cid=145519418|issn=0069-9667}}</ref>
* Gopal Guru (ed). ''Atrophy in Dalit Politics,'' Vikas Adhyayan Kendra (2005), Mumbai.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Guru|first=Gopal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jPBPAQAAIAAJ|title=Atrophy in Dalit Politics|date=2005|publisher=Vikas Adhyayan Kendra|language=en}}</ref>
*Gopal Guru & Sunder Sarukkai. ''Experience, Caste, and the Everyday Social,'' [[Oxford University Press]] (2020), New Delhi''.''<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/experience-caste-and-the-everyday-social-9780199496051?cc=us&lang=en&|title=Experience, Caste, and the Everyday Social|date=2020-01-05|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-949605-1|location=Oxford, New York}}</ref>

=== Book Chapter ===

* ‘Dalits in Pursuit of Modernity’, in [[Romila Thapar]] (Ed.), India another Millennium, New Delhi, [[Penguin/Viking|Penguin-Viking]] (2000), New Delhi.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Thapar|first=Romila|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SlZuAAAAMAAJ|title=India: Another Millennium?|date=2000|publisher=Viking|isbn=978-0-670-89645-5|language=en}}</ref>
*‘Constitutional Justice: Positional and Cultural’, in ed., [[Rajeev Bhargava]], Politics and Philosophy of Indian Constitution, [[Oxford University Press]] (2008), New Delhi.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Bhargava|first=Rajeev|url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/politics-and-ethics-of-the-indian-constitution-9780198063551?cc=au&lang=en&|title=Politics and Ethics of the Indian Constitution|date=2009-09-03|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-806355-1|series=Oxford India Paperbacks|location=Oxford, New York}}</ref>
*‘20th Century Discourse on Social Justice: a view from Bahishkrut Baharat’, in ed., Sabhyasachi Bhattacharya, History, Political thought in Modern India and Social Science, [[Oxford University Press]] (2007), New Delhi.

=== Journal Articles ===

* “How Egalitarian are the Social Sciences in India?,” ''[[Economic and Political Weekly|Economic & Political Weekly]],'' vol.37, No.5 (2002): 5003–09.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Guru|first=Gopal|date=2002|title=How Egalitarian Are the Social Sciences in India?|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4412959|journal=Economic and Political Weekly|volume=37|issue=50|pages=5003–5009|jstor=4412959|issn=0012-9976}}</ref>
* ‘Appropriating Ambedkar‘, ''Economic and Political Weekly,'' Vol. 26, No.27/28 (1991): 1697–1699.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Guru|first=Gopal|date=1991|title=Appropriating Ambedkar|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4398126|journal=Economic and Political Weekly|volume=26|issue=27/28|pages=1697–1699|jstor=4398126|issn=0012-9976}}</ref>
*“Archaeology of Untouchability“, ''Economic & Political Weekly,'' Vol. 44, No. 37(2009): 49–56.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=GURU|first=GOPAL|date=2009|title=Archaeology of Untouchability|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25663543|journal=Economic and Political Weekly|volume=44|issue=37|pages=49–56|jstor=25663543|issn=0012-9976}}</ref>
*“The Idea of India: Derivative, Desi and Beyond,” ''Economic and Political Weekly,'' Vol. 46, No. 37 (2011): 36–42.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Vol. 46, No. 37, SEPTEMBER 10-16, 2011 of Economic and Political Weekly on JSTOR|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/i23047258|access-date=2021-05-13|website=www.jstor.org|language=en}}</ref>
*Migration: A Moral Protest, ''Social Change'' ([[SAGE Publishing|SAGE]]), June 24, 2019.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Guru|first=Gopal|date=2019-06-01|title=Migration: A Moral Protest|url=https://doi.org/10.1177/0049085719844108|journal=Social Change|language=en|volume=49|issue=2|pages=315–328|doi=10.1177/0049085719844108|s2cid=198791719|issn=0049-0857}}</ref>
*The Language of Social Sciences in India, ''Review of Development and Change ([[SAGE Publishing|SAGE]]),'' July 19, 2019.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Guru|first=Gopal|date=2011-12-01|title=The Language of Social Sciences in India|url=https://doi.org/10.1177/0972266120110201|journal=Review of Development and Change|language=en|volume=16|issue=2|pages=145–159|doi=10.1177/0972266120110201|s2cid=199865739|issn=0972-2661}}</ref>

== References ==
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