Sanjay Ruparelia (Visiting Associate Research Scholar, Project on Democracy and Development; September 2012 – June 2013). Ruparelia is an assistant professor of politics at the New School for Social Research. For several years he has explored the rise and fall of the broader Indian left, prospects of power sharing in federal parliamentary democracies, and the role of institutions, strategy, and judgment in politics.  His publications include Divided We Govern: The Paradoxes of Power in Contemporary Indian Democracy (forthcoming) and Understanding India’s New Political Economy: A Great Transformation? (2011), as well as articles on India’s democratic exceptionalism, militant Hindu nationalism, and new economic inequalities in India and China.  At Princeton, Ruparelia will pursue a new research project that examines the move to enact a right to various socioeconomic entitlements through an innovative state-building project in contemporary Indian democracy.  It is part of a longer-term collaborative research initiative to map, explain, and assess the phenomenon of prosperity, inequality, and reform in India and China.  Ph.D. University of Cambridge.