Ajay Gudavarthy is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Political Studies of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Ajay Gudavarthy taught earlier as Assistant Professor at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. He had been Visiting Fellow, Centre for Citizenship, Civil society and Rule of Law, University of Aberdeen in 212. He was Visiting Faculty at Centre for Human Rights, University of Hyderabad in 211 and Visiting Fellow, Goldsmith College, University of London in 21. In 28, he was Charles Wallace Visiting Fellow, the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London. His published works include Re-framing Democracy and Agency in India: Interrogating Political Society (edited, 212) and Politics of Post-civil Society: Contemporary History of Political Movements in India (SAGE Publications, New Delhi, 213).