# Rahul Sagar Member of the Advisory Council ![Rahul Sagar](/sites/g/files/omnuum1371/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/globalpoliticalthought/files/rs_202222171.jpeg?itok=6uPfRZUn) email laptop\_windows [Rahul Sagar's profile at NYU Abu Dhabi](https://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/academics/divisions/social-science/faculty/rahul-sagar.html) laptop\_windows [Personal Website](https://rahulsagar.com/) laptop\_windows [Twitter](https://twitter.com/rahulsagar?lang=en) Rahul Sagar is a Global Network Associate Professor of Political Science at NYU Abu Dhabi, where he teaches political theory and intellectual history. His research focuses on executive power. His first book *[Secrets and Leaks: The Dilemma of State Secrecy](https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__press.princeton.edu_books_paperback_9780691168180_secrets-2Dand-2Dleaks&d=DwMGaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=K0ebY3ucGUuoBmujGDsVvStE0H0k6ar1r90yRqCFtAQ&m=n4KFQWfDwOX8pKxdwCmQqiowfwH37XrR2LJCuWMx3p4swYYTh8oGbJ7FSrYa3amY&s=sn2Zny0rF15hlhLTQ5oH0KlzqPLAeuCXTAwSnCjONQ4&e=)* (Princeton, 2013) received the National Academy of Public Administration’s 2014 Louis Brownlow Award and the Society for the Policy Sciences’ 2015 Myres S. McDougal Prize. Over the past decade he has built *Ideas of India*, a database that indexes more than 300,000 essays published in India between 1800-1950. A recent publication to emerge from this endeavor is *[To Raise a Fallen People](https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.amazon.com_Raise-2DFallen-2DPeople-2DNineteenth-2DCentury-2DInternational_dp_0231206453_ref-3Dsr-5F1-5F1-3Fcrid-3DW8L7JYMBJJXE-26keywords-3Dto-2Braise-2Ba-2Bfallen-2Bpeople-26qid-3D1652269194-26sprefix-3Dto-2Braise-2Ba-2Bfallen-2Bpeop-252Caps-252C235-26sr-3D8-2D1&d=DwMGaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=K0ebY3ucGUuoBmujGDsVvStE0H0k6ar1r90yRqCFtAQ&m=n4KFQWfDwOX8pKxdwCmQqiowfwH37XrR2LJCuWMx3p4swYYTh8oGbJ7FSrYa3amY&s=_q4_39qXVVkRyQRZ3hoS7QoaT6MXKgFHlvggogkeYWY&e=)* *(Columbia, 2022)*, an anthology of 19th-century Indian political writings on the international order. Another recent publication is *[The Progressive Maharaja : Sir Madhava Rao's Hints on the Art and Science of Government](https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.amazon.in_Progressive-2DMaharaja-2DMadhava-2DScience-2DGovernment_dp_9354895328_ref-3Dsr-5F1-5F1-3Fcrid-3D2H6PJ665IK7AZ-26keywords-3Dthe-2Bprogressive-2Bmaharaja-26qid-3D1661879584-26sprefix-3Dthe-2Bprogressive-2Bmaharaj-2Caps-2C246-26sr-3D8-2D1&d=DwMGaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=K0ebY3ucGUuoBmujGDsVvStE0H0k6ar1r90yRqCFtAQ&m=n4KFQWfDwOX8pKxdwCmQqiowfwH37XrR2LJCuWMx3p4swYYTh8oGbJ7FSrYa3amY&s=aqcNUilA9POoMUwLAVUNi1VwVmczKBwybUWKPCrCM4Y&e=) (Oxford, 2022), which recovers and restores the first treatise on government in modern India.* *Sagar* is currently working on *Decent Regimes*, a defense of trusteeship that draws on the experience of British Hong Kong and contemporary Singapore. - ## People categories [Member of the Advisory Council](/people-categories/member-advisory-council)