Niraja Gopal Jayal is an Indian political scientist, who works on issues concerning citizenship, representation, and democracy.
[4] In 2009, Jayal was invited to deliver the Radhakrishnan Memorial Lectures at All Souls College, Oxford University.
Merian – R. Tagore International Centre of Advanced Studies, a collaborative project involving six Indian and German institutions.
[9][10] Gopal has criticized the Indian Government's proposed National Register of Citizens and Citizenship Amendment Act 2019, particularly noting legal challenges in establishing and implementing both, as well the shift towards an ethno-nationalist conception of India, and related political violence against religious minorities.
[11][12] Jayal's book, Citizenship and Its Discontents (Harvard University Press, 2013), won the Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Prize of the Association of Asian Studies in 2015[4] and was reviewed in The Hindu,[13] Foreign Affairs,[14] The American Historical Review,[15] and Economic and Political Weekly.