Pratap Bhanu Mehta

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Pratap Bhanu Mehta is a prominent Indian political scientist, constitutional expert, commentator and amongst India's best known public intellectuals. He currently heads the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi. He has in the past been Associate Professor of Government and of Social Studies at Harvard, Visiting Professor of Government at Harvard and Professor of Philosophy and Law and Governance, at the Jawaharlal Nehru University. He was till recently a member of the National Knowledge Commission.

Dr. Mehta obtained a B.A. from Oxford and a Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University.

He has been a columnist for, among others, The New Republic, Foreign Policy, The Hindu, and the Calcutta Telegraph and has served as an editorial consultant for the Indian Express.

[edit] Selected Works

• The Oxford Companion to Politics in India (forthcoming)
• The Burdens of Democracy
• Public Institutions in India: Performance and Design

[edit] Articles

• Empire and Moral Identity - http://www.cceia.org/resources/journal/17_2/special_section/1020.html
• Presumed Guilty: http://www.countercurrents.org/hr-mehta201103.htm
• Articles in the Outlook magazine: http://www.outlookindia.com/author.asp?name=Pratap+Bhanu+Mehta
• Economists don't argue: http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050818/asp/opinion/story_5120486.asp
• Dear Prime Minister : http://www.indianexpress.com/story/4916.html
• More articles at the Website of The Centre For Policy Research: http://www.cprindia.org/