Business and Politics in India
Edited by Christophe Jaffrelot, Atul Kohli, and Kanta Murali
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Edited by Christophe Jaffrelot, director of the Centre d'études et de recherches, Science Po-Paris, Edited by Atul Kohli, Professor of Politics, Princeton University, and Edited by Kanta Murali, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto
Christophe Jaffrelot is a senior research fellow at the Center for International Studies and Research (CERI) at Sciences Po/ CNRS in Paris. His core research focuses on theories of nationalism and democracy, mobilization of the lower castes and Dalits (ex-untouchables) in India, the Hindu nationalist movement, and ethnic conflicts in Pakistan. Jaffrelot is the author of nine books and has edited twenty-three volumes. Atul Kohli is the David K.E. Bruce Professor of International Affairs and Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. His principal research interests are in the areas of comparative political economy with a focus on the developing countries. He is the author of Poverty amid Plenty in the New India (a Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2012 on Asia and the Pacific) and State-Directed Development: Political Power and Industrialization in the Global Periphery (winner of the 2005 Charles Levine Award). He has also edited eight volumes and
published some sixty articles. Kanta Murali is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include comparative political economy of development, Indian politics, politics of growth and economic policy, state-business relations, state capacity, ethnicity, and economics development, inequality, and labor policy. Her first book, Caste, Class, and Capital: The Social and Political Origins of Economic Policy in India was published by Cambridge University Press in 2017.
Contributors:
Rina Agarwala is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University.
John Harriss is Professor in the School for International Studies at Simon Fraser University.
Patrick Heller is the Lyn Crost Professor of Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology and International Studies at Brown University.
Rob Jenkins is Professor of Political Science at Hunter College and the Graduate Center at The City University of New York.
Sunila S. Kale is Associate Professor in the The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington.
Partha Mukhopadhyay is Senior Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research.
C. Rammanohar Reddy is Readers' Editor at Scroll.in.
Aseema Sinha is the Wagener Chair of South Asian Politics and George R. Roberts Fellow in the Government Department at Claremont McKenna College.
Michael Walton is Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School.
Andrew Wyatt is Senior Lecturer in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol.
