Sudhir Chella Rajan

Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras, India

Sudhir Chella Rajan is professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Madras in India. He is the author of A Social Theory of Corruption: Notes from the Indian Subcontinent (2020).

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Written by Sudhir Chella Rajan

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Politics and government

High crimes and cabals

The official definition of corruption – the abuse of public office for private gain – does little to capture the reality

Sudhir Chella Rajan