Dr.

Sushila Ramaswamy
 Teaching in JMC since 1981

❖ Ph.D. (Rawls and His Critics), 1988 and M. Phil. (The Concept of the Dictatorship of the
Proletariat in the Marxist Thought), 1982 Department of Political Science, University of
Delhi, Delhi.

❖ Teaching/Research Interest in Political Theory and Comparative Politics.

❖ Post-doctoral work as a Fullbright Hays Grantee from Bloomington, Indiana University,

USA on the Neoconservatism in US, 1991-92

❖ Visiting fellow at the National University of Singapore, 1996.

❖ UGC Research Award (2004-07) for a project Post Cold War Social Concerns: Women’s
Representation in a Comparative Perspective.

❖ Presented 13 lectures on Western Political Thinkers as part of the UGC countrywide

classroom lectures in 1991.

❖ Received Minor Research Grant for (1) Gandhi and the Autonomy of Modern Indian
Thought (1989) & (2) Rawls and his Critics (1986).

❖ Received ICSSR Ph. D. Publication Grant in 1989.

❖ Taught courses in political theory for M.A. and M. Phil classes in University of Delhi
(2006 & 2007) and South Campus (1997 to 2004).

❖ Supervision: 4 students for M. Phil. Dissertations (Three University of Delhi and One
from Madurai Kamaraj University.

❖ Member of Committee for designing curriculum for MA in Gandhian Studies Programme

for IGNOU, New Delhi, 2012.

❖ Authored 5 books and co-authored 6 books, several research articles and writes
regularly for The Statesman since 1989 on issues of contemporary political relevance.

Convenorship/Member of College Societies

 2019- Convenor, Student Council; and Convenor ECA
 2017-18, Staff Advisor, Student Council.

 2016-19, Member IQAC.

 2014-16 Convenor, Research Committee.

 2014-15 (Co-Convenor) and 2015-16 (Convenor) Student Council

 2013-14 Staff Advisor, Innovation Project Research Committee

 2013 Member, Budget Committee for Montage

 2013-15 (Co-Convenor) ECA Committee

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  2012 Member, Budget Committee for Montage.

 2010-17 Anti Ragging Committee.

 2009-11 Convenor. ECA Committee.

 2008-09 (Co-Convenor) and 2009-10 (Convenor) Student Council.

 2007-08 Member, Sports Committee.

 2005-07 Convenor, ECA Committee.

 2005-07 Convenor, Women’s Studies and Development Cell.

BOOKS (Individual):

 Women in Political Thought: Quest for Gender Equality and Beyond, Hyderabad,
Orient BlackSwan, (ISBN 978-93-86689-58-0), xiv+408 pages, 2018.

 Political Theory: Ideas and Concepts, Second Edition, New Delhi, Prentice Hall of
India, (ISBN 978-81-203-5048-9), xii+564 pages, 201, 2014.

 Political Theory: Ideas and Concepts, New Delhi, Macmillan, (ISBN 0333 937 988),
x+506 pages, 2003.

 Marxist Theory of the State: Dictatorship of the Proletariat, New Delhi, Deep and
Deep, (ISBN 81-7100-579-9), x+180 pages, 1993.

 Liberty, Equality and Social Justice: Rawls’ Political Theory, New Delhi, Ajantha
Publications, (ISBN 81-202-2091-0), xi+252 pages, 1990.

CO-AUTHOR:

 Theoretical Foundations of Comparative Politics (co-author with Subrata Mukherjee,

Hyderabad, Orient Blackswan (ISBN 978-93-86296-30-6) xi+290 pages, 2017.

 A History of Socialism, (co-author with Subrata Mukherjee), New Delhi, Publications

Division, (ISBN 978-81-230-1863-8) 430 pages, 2014.

 A History of Political Thought: Plato to Marx, Second Edition (co-author with Subrata
Mukherjee), New Delhi, Prentice Hall of India, (ISBN 97-81-203-4389-4 Second
Edition), xii+561 pages, 2014.

 Democracy in Theory and Practice, (co-author with Subrata Mukherjee) New Delhi,
Macmillan, (ISBN 1403-92496 I), xxxii+324 pages, 2005.

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  A History of Socialist Thought: from the Precursors to the Present, (co-author with
Subrata Mukherjee), New Delhi, Sage Publications, (ISBN 81 7036 929- 0 (India HB;
81- 7036 938 X India PB; 0-7619-9437-8 (US HB; 81-7619-9465 3 (US PB), 464
pages, 2000.

 Pashchimi Rajnithi chintan (co-author with Subrata Mukherjee), Delhi, Directorate of

Hindu Medium Implementation, Delhi, University of Delhi, 400 pages, 2000.

 A History of Political Thought: Plato to Marx (co-author with Subrata Mukherjee),

New Delhi, Prentice Hall of India, (ISBN 81-203-1499), viii+432 pages, 1999.

 Samajik chintan ki ithihaas (co-author with Subrata Mukherjee) Delhi, Directorate of

Hindi Medium Implementation, Delhi, University of Delhi, 611 pages, 1999.

CO-EDITOR
 Great Western Political Thinkers in 12 Volumes (Socrates, Cicero, St. Augustine, St.
Aquinas, Marsilio of Padua/William of Ockham, Jean Bodin/Hugo Grotius, David
Hume, Tom Paine, Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant, Montesquieu/Voltaire, Alexis de
Tocqueville), co- edited with Subrata Mukherjee an Introduction and Biographical
Sketch to each volume, New Delhi, Deep and Deep, (ISBN 81-7629-150-1 (set), 1999.

 Margaret Fuller’s Woman in the Nineteenth century co-edited with Subrata Mukherjee
an Introduction and Explanatory Notes, New Delhi, Deep and Deep, 1998 (ISBN 81-
7629-151-X), xii+162 pages, 1998.

 World’s Greatest Socialist Thinkers in 25 Volumes (Thomas More, Gerrard

Winstanley, James Harrington, Jean Jacques Rousseau, William Godwin, Saint Simon,
Robert Owen, Francois Charles Fourier, Ludwig Feuerbach, Michael Bakunin, Karl
Heinrich Marx, Friedrich Engels, Wilhelm Liebknecht, William Morris, August Bebel,
Prince Peter Kropotkin, Franz Mehring, Georges Sorel, Eduard Bernstein, Karl Johann
Kautsky, George Plekhanov, Vladimir Illyich Ulyanov Lenin, Rosa Luxemburg, Leon
Trotsky and Mao Zedong) co-edited with Subrata Mukherjee an Introduction and
Biographical Sketch to each volume, New Delhi, Deep and Deep, (ISBN 81-7100-7759
Set), 1997.

 August Bebel’s Woman in the Past, Present and Future, co-edited with Subrata
Mukherjee an Introduction and Explanatory Notes, New Delhi, Deep and Deep, (ISBN
81-7100-749-5), xi+286 pages, 1996.

 Issues in Comparative Politics, co-edited with Subrata Mukherjee, New Delhi, Deep
and Deep, (ISBN 978-8171-00814), 1996.

 Political Science Annual 1996, co-edited with Subrata Mukherjee, New Delhi, Deep
and Deep, (ISBN 81-7100-883-X), xvi+406 pages, 1996.

 J.S. Mill’s The Subjection of Women, co-edited with an Introduction and Explanatory
Notes, New Delhi, Deep and Deep, (ISBN 81-7100-801-1), x+130 pages, 1995.

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  Political Science Annual 1994-95, co-edited with Subrata Mukherjee, New Delhi, Deep
and Deep, (ISBN 81-7100- 709-0), xvi+459 pages, 1995.

 Facets of Mahatma Gandhi in 4 Volumes (Non Violence and Satyagraha, Political

Ideas, Economic and Social Principles, Ethics, Religion and Culture), co-edited with
Subrata Mukherjee an Introduction to each volume, New Delhi, Deep and Deep, (ISBN
81-7100-669-0 set), 1995.

 Political Science Annual 1993, co-edited with Subrata Mukherjee, New Delhi, Deep
and Deep, (ISBN 81-7100-532-2), xvi+406 pages, 1993.

 Great Western Political Thinkers in 12 Volumes (Plato, Aristotle, Niccolo Machiavelli,

Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Edmund Burke, Jeremy
Bentham, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, John Stuart Mill, Karl Heinrich Marx and
Thomas Hill Green), co-edited with Subrata Mukherjee an Introduction and
Biographical Sketch to each volume, New Delhi, Deep and Deep, (ISBN 81-7100-563-
2 set), 1993.

 Political Science Annual 1992, co-edited with Subrata Mukherjee, New Delhi, Deep,
(ISBN 81-7100-454-7), xii+266 pages, 1992.

 Mary Wollstonstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of the Woman, co-edited with

Subrata Mukherjee an Introduction and Explanatory Notes, New Delhi, Deep and Deep,
(ISBN 81-7100-465-2), xii+231 pages, 1992.

RESEARCH ARTICLES:
International

 India’s Crisis of Governance: Women’s perspective, Policy and Society, Vol. 24, No, 3,
pp. 122-141 (ISSN 1449-4035), 2005.

 Nation State Formation and the Process of Democratization in the Developing world in
Asia in the New Millennium: APISA First Congress Proceedings edited by Amitav
Acharya and Lee Lai To, Marshall Cavendish Academic, Singapore, pp. 462-76. (ISBN
983-210-395-3), 2004.

National

 Debates in Women’s Suffrage Movement, IIC Quarterly, Vole 46, No.1, Summer, pp.
117-27 (ISSN No.3376-9771), 2019.

 The Kantian Roots of the Notion of Democratic Peace: Its Relevance in the
Contemporary world of Democratization, Journal of Polity and Society, vol. 5, issue.3,
July-Dec, pp 19-30 (ISSN 0976-0210), 2014.

 “The Rights of Woman”, Human Rights: Indian Perspective, MGPE 016, IGNOU, New
Delhi, January, pp 107-117, (ISBN 978-81-266-6301-9), 2013.

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 “Understanding Civil Society”, Civil Society, Political Regimes and Conflict MGPE
013, IGNOU, New Delhi, February, pp. 11-20, (ISBN 978-81-266-5895-4), 2012.

 “Elements of Civil Society”, Civil Society, Political Regimes and Conflict MGPE 013, IGNOU,
New Delhi, February, pp. 20-30, (ISBN 978-81-266-5895-4), 2012.

 “Civil Society: Local and Global”, Civil Society, Political Regimes and Conflict MGPE 013,
IGNOU, New Delhi, 2012, pp. 30-40, (ISBN 978-81-266-5895-4), 2012.

 Voluntarism and Gandhi”, Civil Society, Political Regimes and Conflict MGPE 013, IGNOU,
New Delhi, February, pp. 40-50, (ISBN 978-81-266-5895-4), 2012.

 “Swaraj”, Philosophy of Gandhi MGP 002, IGNOU, New Delhi, August, pp. 161-171 (ISBN
978-81-266-4811-5), 2010.

 “Duties”, Philosophy of Gandhi MGP 002, IGNOU, New Delhi, August, pp. 152-60, (ISBN
978-81-266-4811-5), 2010.

 “Power and Authority”, Gandhi’s Political Thought, MPG 004, IGNOU, New Delhi, July, pp.
80-89, (ISBN 978-81-366-4849-8), 2010.

 “Liberty and Equality”, Gandhi’s Political Thought, MPG 004, IGNOU, New Delhi, July, pp.
70- 79, (ISBN 978-81-366-4849-8), 2010.

 “Rights and Duties”, Gandhi’s Political Thought, MPG 004, IGNOU, New Delhi, July, pp. 51-
60, (ISBN 978-81-366-4849-8), 2010.

 “Gandhi’s concept of Nationalism”, Gandhi’s Political Thought, MPG 004, IGNOU, New
Delhi July, pp. 41-50, (ISBN 978-81-366-4849-8), 2010.

 “The Limits of Multiculturalism in a Liberal Polity: Need for a Shared Identity” in Cultural
Diversity, Governance and Policy: India- Australia, edited by D. Gopal and Alan Mayne,
Delhi, Shipra Publications, pp. 78-89, (ISBN 978-81-7541-476-1), 2009.

 “The Incompleteness of Multiculturalist Agenda: Overlooking the Need for a Shared Identity”
Economic and Political Weekly, September 15-21, pp. 3090-96. (ISSN 0012-9976), 2007.

 “Edmund Burke” in Western Political Thought (co-author with Subrata Mukherjee) MPSEE
003, IGNOU, New Delhi, December, pp.117-126, (ISBN 81-266-0958-3), 2003.

 “Alexis de Tocqueville” in Western Political Thought (co-author with Subrata Mukherjee)

MPSEE 003, IGNOU, New Delhi, December, pp.143-151, (ISBN 81-266-0958-3), 2003.

 “Marxist Response to the Gender Question: The Seminal Importance of Bebel’s work” in
Relevance of the Communist Manifesto, edited by Ambrose Pinto and Somen Chakraborty, New
Delhi, Indian Social Institute, pp. 61-70, (ISBN 81-87218-24-X), 2000.

 “Rethinking the Welfare State: The Neo Conservative Perspective” in Political Science Annual
1999, edited by M.M. Sankhdher, New Delhi, Deep and Deep, pp. 237-247, (ISBN 81-7629-
246-8), 1999.

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 “Universalization of Democracy: The Seminal Importance of Rawls’ Paradigm for the
Developing World” in Indian Journal of American Studies, Vol. 27, No.1, winter, pp. 27-34,
(ISSN 6019-5030), 1999.

 “Rawls’ Theory of Civil Disobedience in the Gandhian perspective” in Gandhi Marg, July-
September, pp. 179-197. (ISSN 0016-4437), 1999.

 “Civil Disobedience and Contemporary Political Theory” in Political Science Annual 1996,
edited by Subrata Mukherjee and Sushila Ramaswamy, New Delhi, Deep and Deep, pp 25-52.
(ISBN 81-7100-883-8), 1996.

 “The Anarchist Critique of Marxism” in Political Science Annual 1994-95, edited by Subrata
Mukherjee and Sushila Ramaswamy, New Delhi, Deep and Deep, pp. 17-32. (ISBN 81-7100-
709-0), 1995.

 “Bentham-Utilitarian and Radical Reformer” in Political Science Annual 1993, edited by

Subrata Mukherjee and Sushila Ramaswamy, New Delhi, Deep and Deep, pp. 349-355. (ISBN
81-7100-532-2), 1993.