Alma mater MIT | Name Ashutosh Varshney | |
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Main interests Ethnic and religious conflict Notable awards 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship2008 Carnegie Scholar2003 Gregory Luebbert Prize1990 Daniel Lerner Prize Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Social Sciences, US & Canada Books Ethnic Conflict and Civic, Battles Half Won: India's Im, Democracy - Development - and the C |
Ethnicity and nationalism
Ashutosh Varshney is a political scientist specializing in ethnic and religious conflict and in economic development in South Asia. He is Sol Goldman Professor of Political Science and International Studies and Social Sciences, and the Director of the Brown-India Initiative at Brown University where he is affiliated with the Watson Institute. He completed his B.A and M.A in political sciene from Allahabad University standing first, received an M.Phil. from the Jawaharlal Nehru University and a Ph.D. from MIT in 1990. He taught at Harvard from 1989 to 1998 and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor from 2001 to 2008.
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- Ethnicity and nationalism
- Prof ashutosh varshney on aap wave and 2014 elections
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In 2008 he won the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Carnegie Scholar awards. Additionally, he won the Gregory Luebbert Prize for best book in Comparative Politics in 2003 and the Daniel Lerner Prize for best Ph.D dissertation in Political Science at MIT in 1990. He also served on the Millennium Task Force on Poverty for UN Secretary General Kofi Annan from 2002 to 2005. He has been a consultant to the World Bank and to the United Nations World Development program.
Prof ashutosh varshney on aap wave and 2014 elections
Books

