Ashutosh Varshney
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| name = Ashutosh Varshney
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| alma_mater = {{unbulleted list|University of Allahabad|Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi|MIT}}
| workplaces={{unbulleted list|Harvard University|University of Michigan|Brown University| Watson Institute}}
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| main_interests = Ethnic and religious conflict
| awards = 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship
- 2008 Carnegie Scholar
- 2003 Gregory Luebbert Prize
- 1990 Daniel Lerner Prize
|birth_date={{birth year and age|1957}}|birth_place=Uttar Pradesh, India}}
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Ashutosh Varshney (born 1957) is an Indian-born political scientist and academic. He is currently the Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and the Social Sciences and Professor of Political Science at Brown University, where he also directs the Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. Varshney previously taught at Harvard University and the University of Michigan. He is notable for his contributions to the study of ethnic conflict and civil society, as well as the study of politics in India.{{cite news |last=Khan |first=Mahvish |date=27 July 2002 |title=To Keep the Peace, Study Peace |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/27/arts/to-keep-the-peace-study-peace.html |work=The New York Times |access-date=9 April 2024}} He is also a frequent columnist for the Indian Express.{{cite web | url = https://indianexpress.com/profile/columnist/ashutosh-varshney/ | title = Ashutosh Varshney, Leading Columnist. | work = The Indian Express | date = 6 April 2019 | access-date = 9 April 2024}}
Early life and education
Varshney was born in Uttar Pradesh in 1957. He received Bachelors and master's degrees from the University of Allahabad. He spent a year at Jawaharlal Nehru University before matriculating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned a Sc.M. and Ph.D. in 1985 and 1990, respectively.{{cite web |url= https://static1.squarespace.com/static/62c89342cf4cab0e30274c58/t/641294ca510087610a57bebf/1678939338512/AV+CV+January+%2723.pdf |title= CV |author=Ashutosh Varshney |website= ashutoshvarshney.net |access-date= 9 April 2024}}
Work
Varshney's books include Battles Half Won: India's Improbable Democracy (2013), Collective Violence in Indonesia (2009), Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India (Yale 2002), India in the Era of Economic Reforms (1999), and Democracy, Development and the Countryside: Urban-Rural Struggles in India (Cambridge 1995).
He is currently working on three projects; a multi-country project on cities and ethnic conflict; political economy of urbanization in India; and Indian politics and society between elections.
He served on the former Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan's Millennium Task Force on Poverty (2002–5). He has also served as an adviser to the World Bank, UNDP and the Club of Madrid.{{cite web | url = https://home.watson.brown.edu/people/faculty/watson-faculty/ashutosh-varshney |title = Ashutosh Varshney | author = Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs | access-date = 9 April 2024}}
Publications
- {{cite book | last = Varshney | first = Ashutosh | title = Beyond urban bias | publisher = Frank Cass | location = London, England Portland, Oregon | year = 1993 | isbn = 9780714645117 }} Based on a special issue of the Journal of Development Studies guest edited.
- {{cite book | last = Varshney | first = Ashutosh | title = Democracy, development, and the countryside: urban-rural struggles in India | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge England New York, New York, USA | year = 1998 | isbn = 9780521646253 }} Cambridge University Press, 1995; paperback edition, 1998. Winner of the Daniel Lerner Prize in its PhD dissertation form, MIT, 1990. Indian edition published by Foundation Books (Delhi) in 1996.
- {{cite book | last1 = Varshney | first1 = Ashutosh | last2 = Sachs | first2 = Jeffrey D. | last3 = Bajpai | first3 = Nirupam | editor-link2 = Jeffrey Sachs | title = India in the era of economic reforms | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = New Delhi Oxford | year = 2000 | isbn = 9780195655292 }}
- {{cite book | last = Varshney | first = Ashutosh | title = Ethnic conflict and civic life: Hindus and Muslims in India | publisher = Yale University Press | location = New Haven, Connecticut | year = 2003 | isbn = 9780300100136 }}
- {{cite book | last = Varshney | first = Ashutosh | title = India and the politics of developing countries: essays in memory of Myron Weiner | publisher = SAGE Publications | location = New Delhi Thousand Oaks, California | year = 2004 | isbn = 9780761932888 }} Based in part on a special issue of Asian Survey.
- {{cite book | last1 = Varshney | first1 = Ashutosh | last2 = Herwitz | first2 = Daniel | title = Midnight's diaspora: critical encounters with Salman Rushdie | publisher = University of Michigan Press | location = Ann Arbor | year = 2008 | isbn = 9780472050482 }}
::Reprinted as: {{cite book | last1 = Varshney | first1 = Ashutosh | last2 = Herwitz | first2 = Daniel | title = Midnight's diaspora: critical encounters with Salman Rushdie | publisher = Penguin Viking | location = Delhi, India | year = 2009 | isbn = 9780670083435 }}
- {{cite book | last = Varshney | first = Ashutosh | title = Collective violence in Indonesia | publisher = Lynne Rienner Publishers | location = Boulder, Colorado | year = 2010 | isbn = 9781588266873 }} Based in part on a special issue of the Journal of East Asian Studies, guest edited.
- {{cite book | last = Varshney | first = Ashutosh | title = Battles Half Won: India's Improbable Democracy | publisher = Penguin | year = 2014 | isbn = 9780143423515}}
References
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External links
- [https://watson.brown.edu/people/faculty/varshney Brown University faculty bio]
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