Rouf Ahmad Dar

Rouf Ahmad Dar

Assistant Professor

Department of Political Science

GITAM School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Bengaluru

Education

Ph. D.

Rouf Dar is a political scientist whose research seeks to produce an intellectual history of constitutional ideas in the marginal regions of the Global South. His research interests are comparative political theory, and politics and ethics of climate change in the Himalayas. He was the 2022 Inlaks-King's Visiting Scholar at King's College London.

Research Publications

  • An Incomplete Bargain: Reading Indian Federalism through the Jammu and Kashmir Constituent Assembly, Asian Survey 1–26 (2025)
  • Constitutions and their foundational discontents: Studying the process of constitution-making in Jammu and Kashmir, Global Constitutionalism 12 (3): 543–561 (2023)
  • Constitutional Autonomy and its (Un)Making, World Comparative Law/Verfassung und Recht in Übersee 56 (4): 675–689 (2023)
  • Emergent Plutonomy in India: The Limits of Transformative Constitutionalism, Economic & Political Weekly 60 (10): 51–58 (2025)
  • Simultaneous Elections in Plural Societies: Overlapping Social Cleavages and Democratic Instability in India, Economic & Political Weekly 59 (1): 42–46 (2024)

Expertise

  • Check Icon Constitutionalism
  • Check Icon Comparative Political Theory
  • Check Icon Intellectual History
  • Check Icon Climate Change
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