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Dr. A. K. Verma teaches Politics at Christ Church College, Kanpur. He has been teaching under-graduate and post-graduate students since 1977. The courses taught included European Political Thinkers (especially Plato, Mill, and Hegel), Constitutions of the USA, UK, France, and India, Government and Politics in India with special reference to Uttar Pradesh, and Indian Administration. He has also written about a hundred journalistic articles in leading Hindi Daily ‘Dainik Jagran, Janasatta, Aaj etc. He worked as a Member of the Textbook Development Team, NCERT, Delhi for Class XI to assist in the preparation of, the New Generation of Text Books for Political Science (Indian Constitution at Work) under the National Curriculum Framework-2005. He was invited as a Resource Person to train the cadre of some national political parties. Since 1999, he is the State Coordinator of Uttar Pradesh at Lokniti, and is involved with the National Election Studies (NES) in India.

Dr. Verma has been associated with several journals and is currently the Editor of Shodharthy –An Abstract of Journals in Social Sciences (Hindi), Lokniti, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi since January 2005. He is the Managing Editor for Sankalp Shodh, Centre for the Study of Society and Politics (CSSP), Kanpur since 2004, and a member of the Editorial Board of, Society and Development Journal, Academy for Social Development, Kanpur, since 2003. He has also worked as Editor, The Lokniti Bulletin, Institute for Comparative Democracy, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), New Delhi, 2002-2004, and Editor, The U.P. Journal of Political Science, Official Journal of the U.P. Political Science Association, 1989-98. Dr. Verma was invited to work as Consultant to the Special Volume on Electoral Politics of ‘The Indian Journal of Politics’ (May-June 2006), Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh 2006.

Research interests :
Dr. Verma’s current research interests include – Politics in Uttar Pradesh, Delimitation of Constituencies in India, Electoral Process in U.P, Panchayats and Municipal Elections in Uttar Pradesh.

Selected Publications

Papers Published

‘Uttar Pradesh: Formation of Muslim Political Fronts, Economic And Political Weekly, October 7-13, 2006, pp. 4241-4243.

‘A New Twist to Office of Profit Bill’, Mainstream, 14-20 July 2006, pp. 29-30.

‘Delimitation in India: Methodological Issues’ Economic And Political Weekly, March 4-10, 2006, pp. 794-799.

‘Political Parties Need Introspection: The Growing Antithesis Between Secularism and Muslim Welfare’, South Asia Politics, Vol 4, No.11, March 2006, pp. 24-27.

‘Ninth Panchayat Polls in Uttar Pradesh’ Economic And Political Weekly, 10-16 December 2005, pp. 5231-5233.

‘Democratic Protest Must Change’, Mainstream, Vol. XLIII No. 41, October 1, 2005, pp 14-15.

‘Backward caste Politics in Uttar Pradesh’, Economic And Political Weekly, 3-9 September 2005, pp. 3889-3892.

‘BSP's Strategy in Uttar Pradesh: Wooing the Brahmins for a New Alliance’, Economic And Political Weekly, 25 June -1 July 2005, pp. 2647-2648.

‘Ideological Decline in Indian Political Parties’, South Asia Politics, Vol 4, No.1, May 2005, pp. 36-39.

‘Uttar Pradesh: Caste and Political Mobilisation’, Economic And Political Weekly, 18 December 2004, pp. 5463-5466.

‘Uttar Pradesh: By-elections or Referendum’ Economic And Political Weekly, 23 October 2004, pp. 4691-4693.

‘Uttar Pradesh: Will BSP and Congress Gain?’ Economic And Political Weekly, 1 May 2004, pp. 1774-1776.

‘Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh’, Economic And Political Weekly, 3-10 April 2004, pp. 1509-1514.

‘The Political Turmoil in U.P.’, South Asia Politics, Vol 2, Issue 7, November 2003.pp 28-31.

‘Uttar Pradesh: Politics of Social Polarisation and its Limits’, Journal of Indian School of Political Economy, Vol. XV, January-June, 2003,pp.249-277.

‘Delimitation and Dalits’, Mainstream, Vol. XLI, No.33, 2 August 2003, p.26-27.

‘Shifting Political Equations in U.P.’, Economic And Political Weekly, 1-7 June 2003, pp. 2244-46.

‘Issues and Problems in India’s Delimitation Exercise’, The Indian Journal of Political Science, Vol.63, No. 4, December 2002, pp.371-388.

‘U.P. Assembly Elections: Caste Dominates Ideology’, Economic And Political Weekly, 25-31 May 2002, p.1975.

‘Political Prospects in U.P. – Pointers from A Pre-Poll Survey’, Economic And Political Weekly, 9-15 February 2002, p. 525.

‘Urban Civic Polls in Uttar Pradesh: Parties Losing Ground’, Economic And Political Weekly, 6 January 2001.

‘Reviewing the Constitution: The Philosophy and the Vision’, Indian Journal of Politics, July-December 2000, pp.1-11.

‘Accountability of Political Parties: A Paradigm for Evaluating Political Parties’, Politics India, March 1998.

‘Stability Within the Parliamentary System’, Politics India, October 1996.

‘Trading Cows, Not Horses – Towards A Clean Politics’, Politics India, Inaugural Issue, July 1996.

‘Political Defections in India: In Search of A Conceptual Framework’, The U.P. Journal of Political Science, Vol. 5, No, 1-2, January-December 1993, pp.1-15.

‘BJP Campaign in New Delhi Bye-Elections’, The U.P. Journal of Political Science, Vol. 3, No. 1-2, January-December 1991, pp. 90-99.

‘Factionalism in the Congress Party in Uttar Pradesh’, The U.P. Journal of Political Science, Vol. 2, No. 1, January-June 1990, pp.17-36.

‘The Anti-Defection Law and the Speaker’, The U.P. Journal of Political Science, Vol.1, No. 1, January-June 1989, pp.15-25.

Articles in Books

‘Trading Cows, Not Horses – Towards A Clean Politics’, in Kashyap, Subhash C. (ed.), Coalition Government and Politics in India, Vimot, New Delhi, 1997.

‘Political defections in India: in Search of a Conceptual Frame’, in Virender Grover (ed.), Volume VI, Electoral System, Behaviour and Elections, Political System and Constitution of India, 1997.

‘Parliamentary System With Stability’, in Nigam, N.C. (ed.), Contemporary Issues of Indian Polity, Girraj K. Gaharana felicitation Volume, D.S.College, Aligarh, 1996, pp.129-135.

‘Factionalism in the Congress party in Uttar Pradesh’ in Verinder Grover and Ranjana Arora (ed.), Encyclopaedia of India and Her States, 10 volumes, Vedam Books, New Delhi, 1996.

Edited Books

The Angry Voter: 1994 Assembly Elections in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, (Co-Editor), Madras: Shanti Publishers, 1995.

Women and Religion (in Telugu), Jana Vignana Vedika, Guntur, 1990.

Books Published

‘The Indian Civil Service Examination: The Arts and Science of Success’, L.N.Agarwal Publishers, Agra, 2001.

Rajniti-shastra, Grantham, Kanpur, 1997.

Rajaiti-Vijyan- Ek Saidhantik Adhyayan, Epsilon Publishers, Kanpur, 1995.

‘The Bullets And the Ballots: The Parliamentary Elections in India 1984’, Samuchit Prakashan, Bareilly, 1986.

Ph. D. Thesis

‘A Study of Political Defections in Uttar Pradesh’ (1991: Kanpur University, Kanpur)