Publications

Books

  1. Shaunna Rodrigues, Justification After Empire: Knowledge, Progress, and Self-Respect in India (forthcoming)

  2. Shaunna Rodrigues, Abul Kalam Azad and The Right to Justification in Democratic India, Translated into Urdu by Faheemuddin Ahmed (Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Upcoming).

  3. Melvil Periera, Ankita Gupta, and Shaunna Rodrigues, Growing Up in a Conflict Zone: Children in Manipur (North East Social Research Centre, 2016).

  4. Melvil Periera, Shaunna Rodrigues, and Ankita Gupta, Growing Up in a ConflictZone: Children in Tripura, (North East Social Research Centre, 2016).

Journal Articles

  1. “The Place of Political Membership: Abul Kalam Azad’s Critique of Borders and Nations,” in The Journal of Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, Duke University Press. December 2021; 41 (3): 378 – 388.

  2. “Excluded Areas as The Limits of the Political: The Murky Boundaries of Scheduled Areas in India,” in The International Journal of Human Rights, December 2021; (Republished in Rahul Ranjan eds, At the Crossroads of Rights, Routledge, London, 2022).


Book Chapters

  1. “In the Middle of Ocean and Land: Muslims of Mangalore,” in T. Fazal, D. Vaid and S. Jhodka eds. Muslim Marginalities and Development Promises: Equity, Identity and the Quest for Citizenship. Taylor and Francis, New Delhi (July 2023).

  2. “Self-Respect as a Primary Political Ideal: Ambedkar’s Challengeto Political Theory,”in Aakash Singh Rathore eds. B.R. Ambedkar: The Quest for Justice, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2021.

  3. “Abul Kalam Azad and the Right to an Islamic Justification of the IndianConstitution,” in M. Becker & A. Roy eds. Dimensions of Constitutional Democracy: India and Germany, Springer, Singapore, 2020.

  4. “Negotiating Equality: Making Space for Internal Minorities,” in Melvil Periera, et all, eds. Gender Implicationsof Tribal CustomaryLaw, Rawat Publishers, New Delhi, 2017.

  5. With Melvil Pereira,“Internal Minorities withinCultural Communities: The Case of Women in Tribal Communities of North East India,” in M. Srivastava (Ed), Women Empowerment in Northeast India, Lakshmi Publishers, New Delhi, 2017.

Blog Posts and Interviews

  1. “Self-Respect and the Knowledge of Structures” by Shaunna Rodrigues, for a special issue on Majority/Minority, on Bordernlines (organized by Natasha Raheja and M. Mohsin Alam Bhat).

  2. Epilogue to Critique and Praxis 8/13 (CCCCT),for Critique and Praxis 13/13 by Shaunna Rodrigues. (Post written for the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought).

  3. “On Methods of Studying Secularism: An Interview with Joan Wallach Scott” for Borderlines by Shaunna Rodrigues. (Interview commissioned by Basma Radwan).

  4. “Visions of the Anticolonial Futures from Worlds of the Past” for Brooklyn Rail by Shaunna Rodrigues. (Issue put together by Yasi Alipour)

  5. “Worldmaking and Empire: Humanity and Universals Not Sought: A Conversation with Ayça Çubukçu, Adom Getachew and Darryl Li,”  for Borderlines by Karim Maged Malik and Shaunna Rodrigues.

  6. “Dalit is the New Political and Epistemic Horizon: An Interview with Suraj Yengde,” for Borderlines by Shaunna Rodrigues.

  7. “Constitutionalism as the Language of Politics in India: Fraternity as the Key to Democracy” for Borderlines by Shaunna Rodrigues

  8. “Anticolonial Hauntings: The Past as Inheritance, The Present as Obligation. A Conversation with Elleni Centime Zeleke, Chris Moffat, and Sara Salem” for Borderlines by Shaunna Rodrigues, Karim Malik Maged and Amy Redgrave (Conversation organized by Sohini Chattopadhyay).

Book Reviews

  1. “A Review of Vanya Bhargava’s Being Hindu, Being Indian:Lala Lajpat Rai’s Ideas of Nationhood,” for Global Intellectual History. (Upcoming). 

  2. “ A Review of Karen Hao’s Empire of AI” for Comparative Political Theory. (Upcoming, January 2026).

  3. “A Review of Sagnik Dutta’s In the shadow of minority rights: Decolonising gender, liberalism and the politics of difference,” for Comparative Political Theory (August 2025). 

  4. “A Review of Janaki Bakhle's Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva: The Politics of Exclusion” for the Journal of Asian Studies. (November 2025).

  5. “On the Promises and Failures of Anticolonial Constitutionalism in India: A Review of Sandipto Dasgupta’s Legalizing the Revolution,” in Socio-Legal Review, 2024, 20 (1). doi: 10.55496/DGMJ3454

  6. “The Dependence of Secularism on Nationalism in Indian Democracy: A Round Table on JocelynCesari’s We God’s People: Christianity, Islam and Hinduism in the World of Nations, ” for The Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs.

  7. “On Dar-ul-Qazas and Indian Secularism’s Ability to Contemplate Religious Plurality: A Reviewof Jeff Redding’s A Secular Need,” Law and Other Things.