Gurpreet Mahajan is Professor of Political Science at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She is the author of "Explanation and Understanding in the Human Sciences (1992), Identities and Rights: Aspects of ""Liberal Democracy in India (1998) "and "The Multicultural Path: Issues of Diversity and Discrimination in Democracy (2001)". She has also edited "Democracy, Difference and Social Justice (1998) "and co-edited "Minority Identities and the Nation-State "(with D.L. Sheth) 1999.