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Contributions to Development UNU Panel at the Global Development Network (GDN) Annual Meeting 2000 in Tokyo
Ashutosh Varshney Click to download MS Word Version
Between 1989 and 1999, he was on the faculty of Harvard and Columbia Universities. Born in India, he was educated at M.I.T., the Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Allahabad University. He received a Ph.D. in Political Science from MIT in 1990, where he was also awarded the Daniel Lerner Prize for his dissertation. In addition to the U.S., he has lectured in England, Canada, the Netherlands, Sweden, Thailand, Argentina, Sri Lanka and India. His research and teaching cover three areas: Ethnicity and Nationalism, Political Economy of Development, and South Asian Politics. He has published two books: an authored volume, entitled Democracy, Development and the Countryside: Urban-Rural Struggles in India (Cambridge University Press, New York, 1995 and 1998); and an edited volume, entitled Beyond Urban Bias (Frank Cass, London, 1993). Two other books are forthcoming, an authored book entitled Civic Life and Ethnic Conflict: Hindus and Muslims in India (Yale University Press), and a volume co-edited with Jeffrey Sachs on India in the Era of Economic Reforms (Oxford University Press). His academic papers have appeared, among other journals, in Comparative Politics, Daedalus, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Policy Reform, Journal of Democracy, Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics,, Policy Sciences, Asian Survey, India Briefing, Economic and Political Weekly, Seminar, and The Encyclopedia of Democracy. He has also written for newspapers in the U.S. and India, including The Financial Times, The Times of India, India Today, The Christian Science Monitor, The Economic Times, and The Indian Express. For research, he has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Social Science Research Council, U.S. Institute of Peace, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation. He has been consultant to the World Bank, Department For International Development, U.K., and the U.S. Department of State.
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