[6] Gopal Guru is the author of numerous articles on Dalit discourse, women, politics and philosophy.
He is considered to be one of the high ranking academics to open up caste debates in the study of liberal arts 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.
[9] 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.
[13] Gopal Guru has authored more than 120 articles and book chapters in various international journals and publishers.