Sumit Ganguly | |
|---|---|
| Education | Berea College |
| Alma mater | Miami University |
| Known for | Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations |
| Awards | Pravasi Bharatiya Samman |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Political science |
| Institutions | Indiana University |
| Thesis | (1984) |
Sumit Ganguly is an American political scientist. He is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution[1] and a professor of political science at Indiana University and currently holds that University's Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations, focusing on comparative politics in South Asia.[2][3][4]
Ganguly completed his undergraduate degree at Berea College in 1977, his master's degree from Miami University in 1978, and his Ph.D. in political science at the University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign in 1984.[4] Prior to being appointed at Indiana University, he taught at Michigan State University, Hunter College, Columbia University, and the University of Texas at Austin.[4]
Ganguly was a founding editor of the journals India Review and Asian Security.[5]
Published works
- Books
- The Crisis in Kashmir: Portents of War, Hopes of Peace, Cambridge University Press, 1999. ISBN 9780521655668
- Conflict Unending: India–Pakistan Tensions since 1947, Columbia University Press, 2002. ISBN 9780231507400
- The Kashmir Question: Retrospect and Prospect, Routledge, 2004. ISBN 9781135756574
- Fearful Symmetry: India-Pakistan Crises in the Shadow of Nuclear Weapons (with Devin T. Hagerty), University of Washington, 2006. ISBN 978-0-295-98635-7
- Indian Foreign Policy, Oxford University Press, 2012. ISBN 9780198080367. Revised 2015: ISBN 9780198082217
- Deadly Impasse: India–Pakistan Relations at the Dawn of a New Century, Cambridge University Press, 2016. ISBN 9780521763615
- Ascending India and Its State Capacity: Extraction, Violence, and Legitimacy (with William R. Thompson), Yale University Press, 2017. ISBN 9780300224993
- The Future of ISIS: Regional and International Implications (with Feisal al-Istrabadi), Brookings Institution Press, 2018. ISBN 9780815732174
- Edited works
- India as an Emerging Power, Routledge, 2004. ISBN 9781135761769
- US-Indian Strategic Cooperation into the 21st Century: More than Words (coedited with Andrew Scobell and Brian Shoup), Routledge, 2006. ISBN 9780415702157
- South Asia, New York University Press, 2006. ISBN 9780814731765
- India and Counterinsurgency: Lessons Learned, Routledge, 2009, ISBN 9781134008094
- Asian Rivalries: Conflict, Escalation, and Limitations on Two-level Games (co-edited with William R. Thompson), Stanford University Press, 2011. ISBN 9780804775960
Awards
Ganguly was awarded the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman (Distinguished Overseas Indian) award by the President of India in 2009. [6]
References
- ^ "Sumit Ganguly". Hoover Institution. Retrieved 2024-11-16.
- ^ Ganguly, Sumit (July 19, 2011). "Afghanistan Is Now India's Problem". Foreign Policy.
- ^ "Rabindranath Tagore Professor of Indian Cultures and Civilizations". Indiana University.
- ^ a b c "Sumit Ganguly | Department of Political Science | Indiana University Bloomington". polisci.indiana.edu. Retrieved 2017-02-06.
- ^ "India Review".
- ^ Selection Process of Pravasi Bhartiya Samman Award, Press Information Bureau, Government of India, retrieved 18 August 2020.
