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Ph.D., Political Science McGill University 2009

_{Thesis Title : ‘Ethnic Parties,}

Material Politics and the Ethnic

Poor : The Bahujan Samaj Party

in North India.’

M.A. and M.Phil., Political

Science Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University 1996, 1998 BA (Honours), Political

Science Presidency College, University of Calcutta 1994

Career Profile

Organisation / Institution

Designation

Duration

Role

Centre for Studies in Social

Sciences, Calcutta Navajbhai Ratan Tata Postdoctoral Fellow August 2009-July 2010 Research ; M.Phil. Teaching

Research Interests / Specialization

SUBFIELDS :

Indian Politics ; Comparative Politics RESEARCH INTERESTS :

Politics of Identity ; Politics of Ethnonationalism ;

Ethnic Parties ; Comparative Study of Secular Constitutions ; Anthropology of the State

Teaching Experience ( Subjects/Courses Taught)

MA Compulsory Courses co-taught at the Department of Political Science, University of Delhi :

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Politics in India (August – December 2013, 2012, 2011)

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Interpreting Modern India (August – December 2012, 2011)

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Themes in Indian Political Thought (January – May 2011)

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MA Optional Courses taught

at the Department of Political Science, University of Delhi :

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The Development Process and Politics in India (January – May 2013, 2012)

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Parties, Elections and the Political Process in India (August – December 2013, January – May

2011)

M.Phil. Courses taught at the University of Delhi :

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Section on ‘Caste and Politics’ for the Interdisciplinary Course on ‘Caste in the Disciplines,’

offered by the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Delhi (January - May, 2012)

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Section on ‘Ethnography’ for the M.Phil. Research Methods Course offered at the Department of

Political Science, University of Delhi (August – December 2013, 2012, 2011)

M.Phil. Courses co-taught at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta :

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Institutions and Identities in Contemporary India (January – May 2010)

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Rethinking Political Theory (January – May 2010)

Honors & Awards

AWARDS RECEIVED

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Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship (2000-2004)

Other awards :

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Arts Insights Dissertation Completion Award, Faculty of Arts, McGill University (2008-2009)

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Graduate Student Fellowship, Centre for Developing Area Studies, McGill University (2006-2007)

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Internal SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) Grant for Doctoral Research

Travel, McGill University (2003-2004)

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Senior Research Fellowship, University Grants Commission, India (1998-2000)

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Junior Research Fellowship, University Grants Commission, India (1996-1998)

AWARD NOMINATIONS RECEIVED

Dissertation Award nominations received :

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CGS (Council of Graduate Studies)/UMI ‘Distinguished Dissertation Award 2010,’ for Ph.D.

dissertations submitted in 2008 and 2009, Canadian Competition, Social Sciences Category.

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CGS (Council of Graduate Studies)/UMI ‘Best Dissertation Award 2010,’ for Ph.D. dissertations

submitted in 2008 and 2009, United States Competition, Social Sciences Category.

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Vincent Lemieux Prize 2011, awarded by the Canadian Political Science Association,

for the best Ph.D. dissertation in Political Science submitted at a Canadian institution in

2009 and 2010.

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Publications (LAST FIVE YEARS)

Books / Monographs

Year of

Publication Title Publisher Co-Author

In Indexed/ Peer Reviewed Journals

Publication Title Journal Co-Author

March 2013 ‘From Ethnic to Multiethnic : The Transformation of the

Bahujan Samaj Party in North India.’ Ethnopolitics, 12 : 1.

Other Articles/Chapters :

‘The Bahujan Samaj Party : Its Shifting Strategies of Subaltern Mobilization in Uttar Pradesh.’ In Sudha

Pai (ed.)

Handbook of Politics in Indian States : Regions, Parties and Economic Reforms

. Oxford

University Press, New Delhi, 2013.

‘Caste Violence and Electoral Politics : Uttar Pradesh, Post-1995.’ Occasional Paper, Centre for Studies in

Social Sciences, Calcutta, 2010.

‘Asymmetric Representation and the BSP in Uttar Pradesh.’

Seminar

, 571, 2007.

Book Reviews :

Omar Khalidi,

Khaki and Ethnic Violence in India : Armed Forces, Police and the Paramilitary During

Communal Riots.

Three Essays Collective, Gurgaon, India, 2010. In

Pacific Affairs

, 84 : 2, June 2011.

Rajit K. Mazumder,

The Indian Army and the Making of Punjab.

Orient Blackswan, New Delhi, 2011.

In

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism

, 12 : 3, 2012.

Conference Presentations/Workshops

Discussant for the paper, ‘A Radical Conception of Democracy : Its Promise and Limits,’ presented by Prof. Valerian Rodrigues, at the seminar, ‘Exploring New Realms of Politics in India : Knowledge of Democracy and the Democracy of the Knowledge,’ Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, February 21-22, 2013.

‘‘Crass,’ ‘Corrupt’ and ‘Opportunistic’ : The Media, the Bahujan Samaj Party and the Reproduction of Caste’. Paper presented at the workshop on ‘Rethinking Power in Modern India,’ Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, April 5, 2012 ; and the seminar ‘Mindscapes of Caste : Reconciling Equality and Justice,’ Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, March 23-24, 2012.

‘The Ethnographic Method’. Talk delivered as Resource Person for the Workshop on Qualitative Methods and Techniques in Social Science Research, organized by the Indian Council of Social Science Research, at Punjab University, December 5-11, 2011.

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‘Caste and the Public-Private Distinction.’ Talk delivered as Resource Person for the panel ‘Gender and Caste,’ Navajbhai Ratan Tata Trust Workshop on ‘The Public and the Private : Lives, Institutions, Practices,’ Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, October 28 – November 3, 2010.

‘Caste Violence and Electoral Politics : Uttar Pradesh, Post-1995.’ Paper presented at the Navajbhai Ratan Tata Trust Workshop on ‘Violation and Violence,’ Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, November 4-10, 2009.

‘Ethnic Politics, Material Empowerment and the Ethnic Poor : The Bahujan Samaj Party in India.’ Paper presented at the Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, October 12-14, 2007.

Participant and discussant for the paper, ‘Ethnography from Below? Reflections from an Industrialized Slaughterhouse on Perspectives, Power and the Ethnographic Voice,’ presented by Timothy Pachirat at the workshop on ‘Political Ethnography : What Insider Perspectives Contribute to the Study of Power,’ Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, University of Toronto, October 27-28, 2006.

Total Publication Profile

Books

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Articles

Conference Presentations

Public Service / University Service / Consulting Activity

CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT :

Member of the Indian Government and Politics Group for the revision and restructuring of Undergraduate (BA Honours) courses in Political Science at Delhi University, 2011.

Introduced (with Professor Ujjwal Singh) the revised BA Honours Compulsory Course, ‘Constitutional Democracy and Government in India,’ at the Course Orientation held at the Department of Political Science, Delhi University, in August 2011.

Professional Societies Memberships

PROFESSIONAL BODIES :

American Political Science Association Association of Asian Studies

RESEARCH GROUPS/INITIATIVES :

Ethnicity and Democratic Governance Interpretation and Methods

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Projects (Major Grants / Collaborations)

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PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Referee, Ethnopolitics, and Asian Studies Review.

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