Leela Fernandes is a political scientist who has written widely about inequality and change. Her numerous books and articles include India's New Middle Class: Democratic Politics in an Era of Economic Reform and Transnational Feminism in the United States: Knowledge, Ethics, Power. She has taught for three decades at the University of Washington, University of Michigan, Rutgers University, and Oberlin College. At Michigan she served as director of the Center for South Asian Studies and was a senior fellow at the Michigan Society of Fellows, while at Washington she served as director of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.

"Leela Fernandes’s Governing Water in India is a tour de force, analyzing the politics of reform and bureaucracy, and calibrating and deepening insights into India’s unequal social fabric...Nuanced, rigorous, and refreshingly original."

Leela Fernandes is a political scientist who has written widely about inequality and change. Her numerous books and articles include India's New Middle Class: Democratic Politics in an Era of Economic Reform and Transnational Feminism in the United States: Knowledge, Ethics, Power. She has taught for three decades at the University of Washington, University of Michigan, Rutgers University, and Oberlin College. At Michigan she served as director of the Center for South Asian Studies and was a senior fellow at the Michigan Society of Fellows, while at Washington she served as director of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.

"Leela Fernandes’s Governing Water in India is a tour de force, analyzing the politics of reform and bureaucracy, and calibrating and deepening insights into India’s unequal social fabric...Nuanced, rigorous, and refreshingly original."

Leela Fernandes is a political scientist who has written widely about inequality and change. Her numerous books and articles include India's New Middle Class: Democratic Politics in an Era of Economic Reform and Transnational Feminism in the United States: Knowledge, Ethics, Power. She has taught for three decades at the University of Washington, University of Michigan, Rutgers University, and Oberlin College. At Michigan she served as director of the Center for South Asian Studies and was a senior fellow at the Michigan Society of Fellows, while at Washington she served as director of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.

"Leela Fernandes’s Governing Water in India is a tour de force, analyzing the politics of reform and bureaucracy, and calibrating and deepening insights into India’s unequal social fabric...Nuanced, rigorous, and refreshingly original."