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Rekha Datta, Ph.D., Freed Endowed Chair in Social Sciences and professor in the Department of Political Science, co-edited, \u201cJustice and Sustainability in Indian Democracy: Tryst with Destiny<\/a>\u201d (Routledge, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Datta worked alongside Zaad Mahmood, Ph.D., (Presidency University) and Sanjeeb Mukherjee, Ph.D., (Jadavpur University). The book offers a unique examination of India\u2019s democratic political system by using the dual premises of justice and sustainability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The chapters further explore how parties, identity, politics, gender, education, economic, and foreign policies intersect with justice and sustainable goals\u2014challenging technocratic accounts of sustainability that detach environment from society. It ultimately provides a nuanced understanding of the challenges faced, and strengths needed, to stabilize India\u2019s democratic present and to ensure its just and sustainable future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It also argues that India\u2019s democratic trajectory, and the sustainability of democratic governance, depends on its capacity to deliver social, economic, and ecological justice to all citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book is also included in the series Routledge Studies in South Asian Politics<\/a>, which focuses on recent political developments in the region and covers a range of different approaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rekha Datta, Ph.D., Freed Endowed Chair in Social Sciences and professor in the Department of Political Science, co-edited, \u201cJustice and Sustainability in Indian Democracy: Tryst with Destiny\u201d (Routledge, 2026). Datta worked alongside Zaad Mahmood, Ph.D., (Presidency University) and Sanjeeb Mukherjee, Ph.D., (Jadavpur University). The book offers a unique examination of India\u2019s democratic political system by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2249,"featured_media":40802299098,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[912,322,444,423],"tags":[432,3944,3378],"person":[611,7806,7803],"audience":[386,17,11,8,50,29,1961,131,128,47],"school":[59,26],"program":[],"class_list":["post-40802299005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cec-news","category-faculty-accomplishments","category-monmouth-now","category-faculty-perspectives","tag-newsletter","tag-political-science","tag-school-of-humanities-social-sciences","person-rdatta","person-sanjeeb-mukherjee","person-zaad-mahmood","audience-community","audience-community-member","audience-current-student","audience-faculty","audience-graduate-student","audience-media","audience-parent","audience-prospective-graduate-student","audience-prospective-undergraduate-student","audience-undergraduate-student","school-political-science","school-school-of-humanities-and-social-sciences"],"squareimage":{"id":40802248887,"rendered":"\"Professor","original":{"url":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2020\/08\/Rekha-Datta-Headshot_20190724_AD_09-e1746635305362.jpg","width":683,"height":683}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802299005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40802299005"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802299005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40802299197,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802299005\/revisions\/40802299197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40802299098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40802299005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40802299005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40802299005"},{"taxonomy":"person","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person?post=40802299005"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=40802299005"},{"taxonomy":"school","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/school?post=40802299005"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=40802299005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}