Dr Ravi Saxena

Ph.D. from Gujarat National Law University, M. Phil., M.A.: (Political Science)
Assistant Professor
Major Area: Political Science

Work Experience:

Assistant Professor (Political Science and IR) Jyoti Dalal School of Liberal Arts, NMIMS (Deemed-to-be-University), Mumbai. India. October 7, 2023 onwards. Prior to this, Dr Saxena has also worked at Kirit P. Mehta School of Law, NMIMS (2016-2023), Institute of Law, Nirma University, Ahmedabad (2010-2016), Government College for Girls, Sector-11, Chandigarh (2006-06, and 2009-10) and Government College for Boys- Sector-11, Chandigarh (2007-08 and 2008-09). He has also taught as Visiting Faculty at Pandit Deen Dayal Energy University (PDEU), Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad.

Total Teaching Experience: 16 Years.

Fellowships, Achievements, Awards and Honors:

Academic:

Elected as ‘Member’ of the Shastri-Indo Canadian Institute (SICI), N. Delhi. SICI is having more than 185 prestigious universities / academic institutions of India and Canada.
Received the Best Faculty Award- 2021-22, Kirit P. Mehta School of Law, NMIMS (Deemed to be University), Mumbai.
Received the Rashtriya Pratibha Award in 2019 for the contribution in academics.
Appreciation of Excellence in Research Award 2013-14, Institute of Law, Nirma University, Ahmedabad (Gujarat).
Appointed as a committee member of "The International Symposium on Society, Technology, Education and Politics”, April 06, 2012, China.
Appointed as an ‘advisor’ of the prestigious The New Castle Law Review, (July 2019 Edition), New Castle University, Australia. February 25, 2019.

Conferences and Seminars:

Invited to deliver lectures: Chaired around more than twenty national and international seminars / conferences / or was invited as a Resource Person.

The Programme Committee of American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) has accepted the paper- ‘Deconstructing Ambedkar-Gandhi and Decoding Annihilation of Caste’ to be presented in the Seminar on "Global Rise of the Critical Caste Studies”, Montreal, March 14-17, 2024.
‘Discussant’- to speak on the book- Grace, Glory and Gaffe: India’s Defence and Security at 75, edited by Dr Uttara Sahasrebuddhe and Mr Akhshay Ranade, September, 2023. The Book Discussion event took place at SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai, on January 18, 2024.
‘Caste, Politics and Cultural Discourse in India: On Inequality, Humiliation and Discrimination’ in the SICI Prairie Regional Conference, Canada October 20, 2022.
‘Dalit Women, Caste and Patriarchy in Indian Society: A Contemporary Assessment’ in the 2nd ANNUAL ELIMINATION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN CONFERENCE, School of Law, Nelson Mandela University, Johannesburg, South Africa, on November 25, 2021.
"Caste in the Public Sphere and Indian State: A Human Rights Perspective” in The Asia Pacific Association for EU Studies (Eusa-Asia Pacific), on June 04-05, 2012, hosted by the EU Centre in Singapore (NUS- Singapore).
‘AIIB and NDB: Towards Making India’s Infrastructure Innovative, Technology-driven and Climate Resilient’ at the School of Integrated Coastal and Maritime Security Studies, Rashtriya Raksha University, Gandhinagar on December 16, 2023.
‘Indian Foreign Policy and WTO: Points of Preference’ at the School of Integrated Coastal and Maritime Security Studies, Rashtriya Raksha University, Gandhinagar on December 15, 2023.
‘Higher Education in India: Mainstreaming the Marginalized’ at the National Induction Programme for the faculty Members across India- Dakshata, organised by the UGC-Human Resource and Development Cell, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, December 7, 2023.
‘Law, Policy and Environment’ to the students of Meghnad Desai Academy of Economics, Mumbai, June 11, 2022.
‘Law, Sustainability and Public Policy’ to the students of Meghnad Desai Academy of Economics, Mumbai, June 4, 2022.
‘Caste-Based Reservations in the Indian Education System’, Jyoti Dalal School of Liberal Arts, NMIMS (Deemed to be university), Mumbai, on February 26, 2021. The lecture was the part of their seminar series ‘Seedhi Baat’
‘International Political Economy’ to the students of the Advanced Management Programme (AMP) September 14-28, 2019 at BSE Institute, Bombay Stock Exchange, Mumbai. The AMP Course is jointly conducted by BSE Institute, Mumbai and Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow.
‘International Political Economy’ to the students of the Advanced Executive Programme (AEP) April 14-27, 2019 Jointly organised by BSE, Mumbai and IIM- Lucknow.
‘Tradition, Caste and Education in Jyotiba Phule’s Thought: Some Reflections’, in the international conference on ‘Retrieving the Voices from the Margins: Thinkers of Modern India’, August 10-13, 2017 Jointly organised by IIAS, Shimla and BHU- Varanasi.
'Human Rights Approach towards Sustainable Development' in the International Conference on Sustainability organized by Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law (RGNUL) and Ontorio International Development Agency (OIDA), on December 4-5, 2013.

PAPER PRESENTATIONS: Participated and presented the research papers in around 30 national / international seminars / conferences. Some of the prominent ones are mentioned below-

A Comparative Analysis of Scheduled Tribes in India and Indigenous People in Canada’, at the "Engaging India-Engaging Canada: Interdisciplinary Perspectives" on October 20-21, 2022 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.).
‘Sustaining Earth: Bringing Law, Society and Sustainable Development Together’ in the Thirteenth International Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Conference, Granada, Spain, July 25-27, 2018.
"Tradition, Caste and Education in Jotiba Phule’s Thought: Some Reflections” in the international seminar on ‘Retrieving the Voices from the Margins: Thinkers of Modern India’, August 11-13, 2017, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi (U.P.).
"Towards the Annihilation of Caste: Resituating Ambedkar in the Contemporary Dalit Discourses”, in the International Seminar on Philosophy of B. R. Ambedkar in Contemporary Period, March 17-18, 2016 at Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar (Gujarat).
"Dalit Politics and Poetics in Contemporary India: Some Reflections" in the International Conference on "Critical Race Theory and Critical Dalit Studies: Understanding Segregation, Exclusion, Intersectionality and the Narratives of Struggle" organized jointly by Dr. Ambedkar Centre for Social Justice, Phule-Ambedkar Chair, University of Mumbai, Mumbai (India) and Indiana University, USA on June 25-26, 2015.
"Contemporary Indo-Pak Relations; Exploring the Political Impasse” in an international conference on India’s Foreign Relations-South-East Asia and the Indian Ocean: Strengthening Political, Economic, Security and Cultural Prospects, September 12-13, 2014, at Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar (Gujarat).
Third International Conference on Religion and Spirituality in Society, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA, March 8-9, 2013.
"Indian Nation at Crossroad: A Gandhi-Nehru Debate” in two days National Seminar on "Social Exclusion, Discourse in the Thought of Phule, Ambedkar, Gandhi and Nehru” held on March 12-13, 2012 organized by CSSEIP & Dept. Of Philosophy, Goa University, Goa.
PUBLICATIONS:

Books:

Political Thought and Theory, 2019. E-Publications, N. Delhi. ISBN: 819394954-4.
Political Science- I. 2016. N. Delhi: LexisNexis India. ISBN: 978-93-5143-702-4.
The Politics of Protest: A Critical Analysis of Dalit Poetics and Politics in India. 2013. Saarbrucken (Germany): LAP. ISBN: 978-3-659-38096-9.

Edited Volumes (Forthcoming):

Forthcoming Book ‘Dilemmas in Politics: Norms, Values and Contestations’ from Routledge-London, (Contract Signed and Manuscript submitted- Expected publication in June, 2024).

Chapters in Edited Volumes:

"Caste, Privatization of Higher Education and Social Exclusion in India: Some Reflections” in Dr. Swati Chakrabarty, Handbook of Social Media: For Digital Inclusion, N. Delhi. ABS Publications, 2018. ISSN: 978-93-86088.
"Contextualizing Dr. Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste in Contemporary Discourse of Distributive Justice in India”, to be published in an edited volume by Mahatma Gandhi Labour Institute, Ahmedabad (Gujarat). (Expected by December 2023).

Publication in the Report of an International Conference:

Caste, Politics and the Cultural Discourse in India: On Inequality, Humiliation and Discrimination’ at SICI-Prairies Conference. This has been reported in the Shastri-Indo Canadian Institute (SICI)- Canada’s Report on the international conference- SICI-Prairies Regional Conference October 21-22, 2022.

Research Journals:

"Interrogating the Brahminical Discourses of Subaltern Studies: Some Reflections’’, Littcrit, June-July, 2023, Vol. 49, No. 1. ISSN: 0970-8049. Pp. 136-146.
"Sustaining Earth: Bringing Law, Society and Sustainable Development Together”, NMIMS Journal of Economic and Public Policy, Volume V, Issue I, January 2020.
"Is the Crisis in Humanities Escapable? Rethinking Martha Nussbaum’s Curriculum Reforms in the Light of Indian Higher Education System.”, Littcrit, Vol. 41, No.1, June 2018. ISSN: 0970-8049. (UGC-CARE).
"Quest for Academic Autonomy and the Making of Public Intellectuals: Some Reflections on Martha Nussbaum’s Humanity Project”, Dialogue, Vol. 19 No.2, October-December 2017. ISSN: 0973-0095. (UGC-CARE).
"The Annihilation of Caste, Joothan and Cultural Questioning”, September 2017, The Scholastic Forum, D.A.V. College, Chandigarh. (UGC approved peer reviewed research journal) ISSN: 2395-0889.
"Democracy, Plurality and Higher Education in India: A Perspective”, The Scholastic Forum, Vol.1, No.2, September, 2016. ISSN: 2395-0889. (UGC Approved peer-reviewed Research Journal)
"Globalization, Role of Education and Professional Education: A Layman’s Labour”, Libertatem, Vol.1, Issue 8, September 15, 2015. www.mylibertatem.com. ISSN: 2395-4418.
"Caste, Constitutionalism and Human Rights in Modern India: A Gandhian Critique”, Indian Journal of Lifelong Learning and Development, Department of Adult Education, Savitribai Phule University, Pune. Vol.3, No.3, July-September, 2015, pp. 58-72. ISSN: 2454-6852. (UGC-CARE).
"Scripting Women in Modern Political System in India: Roots and Routs” in GNLU Journal of Law, Development and Politics, Vol.4, Issue 1, April. 2014. ISSN: 0975-0193. (UGC-CARE)
"The 73rd and 74th Amendment Acts, 1992: An Impact Analysis of Decentralization in India” in Journal of Centre for Law and Governance (JCLG), Institute of Law, Nirma University, Ahmedabad, Vol.1, Issue 1, July 2014. ISSN No. 2348-7801.
"The Dalit Question: Reading Godan and Joothan as Narratives of Dalit Protest.” in Panjab University Research Journal (Arts), Vol. XXXVI (1&2), April-October, 2009. ISSN: 0970-5260. (UGC-CARE).
Saxena, Ravi. "Interrogative Issues in India’s Experiments with Multiculturalism: Some Reflections on the Situation of Dalits, Religious Minorities and Pravasis” in DIVINER, Vol. 4(2), Feb-July, 2007.

Commentaries/Magazine/Newspaper Articles/Opinions:

Saxena, Ravi. ‘Is Dalit a Hindu?’, BW Businessworld, November 19, 2017 issue, available at http://businessworld.in/article/Is-Dalit-a-Hindu-/19-10-2017-128713/