Prof Muzaffar Assadi is a Professor at Dept of Studies in Political Science and Public Administration, University of Mysore. His areas of specialization include Agrarian Studies, Globalization, Gandhism, Political Sociology, Democratic Theory, Social Movements, Comparative Government and Politics, Human Rights in India, Ideology, Global Political Theory. He has received the Junior Research Fellowship by the UGC In Gandhian Thought and Rockefeller Post-Doctoral Fellowship, University of Chicago.