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Asha Sarangi

Professor

Centre/School/Special Centre

Centre for Political Studies,

School of Social Sciences

Room No

122

Off. Phone

91-11-26704614

ashasarangi@mail.jnu.ac.in ashasarangi@gmail.com

Personal Webpage

http://www.jnu.ac.in/Faculty/ashasarangi/cv.pdf

Qualifications

Ph.D (University of Chicago, USA)

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Political and cultural economy of development in modern India, state politics in India, identity and politics in South Asia and more specifically the politics of linguistic nationalism in modern India.

Experience

Teaching and research of several years at the graduate and under-graduate levels.

Awards & Honours

2007- Social Scientist Award under the Indo-French Cultural Exchange Programme, University Grant Commission, New Delhi, India.
2003-Junior Fellowship awarded by the Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India .
1998-COSAS fellowship, University of Chicago.
1995-96-COSAS fellowship, University of Chicago.
1994-95- Junior Fellowship awarded by the American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS)
1993-“First Year” Dissertation Fellowship awarded by the Mellon Foundation, University of Chicago.
1993- Overseas Dissertation Research Fellowship awarded by the Division of the Social Sciences, University of Chicago.
1993-COSAS (Committee on Southern Asian Studies) fellowship, University of Chicago, for archival research work in India and England.
1989-1993-University of Chicago Unendowed Fund fellowship for Graduate Studies Program at the Department of Political Science, University of Chicago.
1989-1993 National Scholarship awarded by the Government of India to pursue Ph.D degree abroad.

Best Peer Reviewed Publications

1. Nehru and the Reorganisation of States: Making of Political India in Asha Sarangi and Sudha Pai (ed). Interrogating Reorganisation of States: Culture, Identity and Politics in India (Routledge: London, New York and Delhi, 2011).
2. Linguistic Diversity in a Federal Polity: An Indian Experience in Gupreet Mahajan (ed). Accommodating Diversity: Ideas and Institutional Practices (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2011).
3. Enumeration and the Linguistic Identity Formation in Colonial North India in Studies in History, 25, 2 (2009) pp. 197-227. (Sage Publications: Los Angeles/London/New Delhi).
4. Languages as Women: The Feminisation of Linguistic Discourses in Colonial North India in Gender and History, Vol 21, #2, 2009, pp 287-304 (Blackwell Publications Limited).
5. Tribal Languages and the Cultural Politics in Contemporary India in Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings 9:1:2009. University of Leeds, U.K. (special issue on Chotro: Adivasi Voices and Stories).

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

Introduction to V.P.Menon, Integration of the States in India (Orient Blackswan, New Delhi, 2014, First published 1956)
(ed. with Sudha Pai) Interrogating Reorganisation of States: Culture, Identity and Politics in India, (Routledge, London, New York and India, 2011)
(ed) Language and Politics in India. Oxford University Press, New Delhi. (2009). Published again as a paperback edition, 2010.