Arudra Burra
Assistant Professor
Humanities & Social Sciences
The Indian Institutes of Technology, Delhi
India
Biography
Arudra Burra is an assistant professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IITD. He joined the department in December 2012, after post-doctoral fellowships at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), and the Program in Law and Philosophy at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA). Arudra's primary research interests are in moral and political philosophy, as well as the philosophy of law. He also works in the area of legal history, studying the ways in which laws and legal institutions are able to survive drastic changes in the political regimes that support them.
Research Interest
Moral and political philosophy, philosophy of law, legal history
Publications
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A. Burra, “The Cobwebs of Imperial Rule.†Seminar 615, 79-83
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A. Burra, “The Indian Civil Service and the Nationalist Movement: Neutrality, Politics, and Continuity.†Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 48:4, 404-32.
