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Dr. A.K. Verma
Location
Chair
Department of Political Science,
Christ Church College,
Kanpur 208001
Phone Numbers:
Office: 0-9839163498
Residence: 0512-2580802
E-mail: akv1722@gmail.com, |
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Dr. A. K. Verma teaches Politics at Christ Church College,
Kanpur. He has taught European Political Thinkers (especially
Plato, Mill, and Hegel), and the Constitutions of the
USA, UK, France and India. Presently, he focuses on
Government and Politics in India with special reference
to Uttar Pradesh. His recent theoretical explanations
‘reverse social osmosis’ and ‘sandwich coalition’ have
given a new explanation to the inclusionary politics
in Uttar Pradesh. He was invited by South Asia Initiative,
Harvard University in April 2008 to make a presentation
on the same.
He writes for both English and Hindi Press - notably
The Indian Express, Hardnews and, leading Hindi Dailies
‘Dainik Jagran, Janasatta and Aaj. He assisted in the
preparation of the New Generation of NCERT Text Books
for Political Science (Indian Constitution at Work).
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 is associated with several journals and, currently,
edits a Hindi Journal Shodharthy –a Journal of abstracts
in Social Sciences, published by Lokniti, Centre for
the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi since
January 2005. He also worked as Editor, Lokniti Bulletin,
published by Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
(CSDS), New Delhi, 2002-2004, and as Editor, The U.P.
Journal of Political Science, an Official Journal of
the U.P. Political Science Association (1989-98). He
has appeared on live Television programmes and delivered
Radio Talks at home and abroad.
Research interests :
Dr. Verma’s current research interests include –
Government and Politics in Uttar Pradesh, Delimitation
of Constituencies in India, and, Electoral Process in
U.P.
Selected Publications:
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Fourth Delimitation of
Constituencies: An Appraisal Economic And
Political Weekly, March 15, 2008, pp. 12-16. |
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Reflecting
Before Teaching, Economic And Political
Weekly, December 8-14, 2007, pp. 78-79. |
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The Third Federal Tier
in India: A Study in Compatibility with Democracy
and Federalism, Indian Journal of Politics,
July- December 2007, pp 141-162 |
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‘Mayawati’s Sandwich Coalition’ Economic And Political Weekly, June
2-8, 2007, pp. 2039-2043. |
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‘Correcting the Political
Disorientation of the Youth’, Indian Journal
of Youth Affairs, Vol. 11, No.1, January-June
2007, pp.8-11. |
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‘Reverse Social Osmosis
in Uttar Pradesh’ Economic And Political
Weekly, March 10-16, 2007, pp. 817-820. |
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‘The Elusive Samajwad’, SEMINAR,
No. 571, March, 2007, pp.43-48 |
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‘Municipal
Elections in Uttar Pradesh, Economic And
Political Weekly, December 23-29, 2006,
pp. 5218-5221. |
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‘Uttar Pradesh:
Formation of Muslim Political Fronts, Economic
And Political Weekly, October 7-13, 2006,
pp. 4241-4243. |
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‘A New Twist to Office of Profit
Bill’, Mainstream, 14-20 July 2006, pp.
29-30. |
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‘Delimitation
in India: Methodological Issues’ Economic
And Political Weekly, 4-10 March 2006,
pp. 794-799. |
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Political
Parties Need Introspection: The Growing Antithesis
Between Secularism and Muslim Welfare South
Asia Politics, Vol 4, No.11, March 2006,
pp. 24-27. |
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‘Ninth Panchayat
Polls in Uttar Pradesh’ Economic And Political
Weekly, 10-16 December 2005, pp. 5231-5233. |
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‘Democratic Protest Must Change’, Mainstream, Vol. XLIII No. 41, October
1, 2005, pp 14-15. |
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Backward caste
Politics in Uttar Pradesh, Economic And
Political Weekly, 3-9 September 2005, pp.
3889-3892. |
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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. |
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Ideological
Decline in Indian Political Parties, South
Asia Politics, Vol 4, No.1, May 2005, pp.
36-39. |
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Uttar Pradesh:
Caste and Political Mobilisation, Economic
And Political Weekly, 18 December 2004,
pp. 5463-5466. |
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‘Uttar Pradesh:
By-elections or Referendum’ Economic And
Political Weekly, 23 October 2004, pp.
4691-4693 |
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‘Uttar Pradesh:
Will BSP and Congress Gain?’ Economic And
Political Weekly, 1 May 2004, pp. 1774-1776 |
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‘Samajwadi
Party in Uttar Pradesh’, Economic And Political
Weekly, 3-10 April 2004, pp. 1509-1514. |
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‘The Political Turmoil in U.P.’, South Asia Politics, Vol 2, Issue 7,
November 2003.pp 28-31. |
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‘Uttar Pradesh:
Politics of Social Polarisation and its Limits’, Journal of Indian School of Political Economy,
Vol. XV, January-June, 2003,pp.249-277. |
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‘Delimitation and Dalits’, Mainstream,
Vol. XLI, No.33, 2 August 2003, p.26-27. |
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‘Shifting
Political Equations in U.P.’, Economic And
Political Weekly, 1-7 June 2003, pp. 2244-46. |
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‘Issues and
Problems in India’s Delimitation Exercise’, The Indian Journal of Political Science,
Vol.63, No. 4, December 2002, pp.371-388. |
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‘U.P. Assembly
Elections: Caste Dominates Ideology’, Economic
And Political Weekly, 25-31 May 2002, p.1975 |
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‘Political
Prospects in U.P. - Pointers from A Pre-Poll
Survey’, Economic And Political Weekly,
9-15 February 2002, p. 525 |
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‘U.P. - BJP’s Caste Card, Economic
And Political Weekly, 1-7 December 2001. |
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Urban Civic
Polls in Uttar Pradesh: Parties Losing Ground’, Economic And Political Weekly, 6 January
2001. |
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‘Reviewing
the Constitution: The Philosophy and the Vision’, Indian Journal of Politics, July-December
2000, pp.1-11. |
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‘Accountability of Political Parties:
A Paradigm for Evaluating Political Parties’, Politics India, March 1998. |
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‘Stability Within the Parliamentary
System’, Politics India, October 1996. |
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‘Trading Cows,
Not Horses - Towards A Clean Politics’, Politics
India, Inaugural Issue, July 1996. |
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‘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. |
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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. |
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‘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. |
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‘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
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‘Backward Caste Politics
in Uttar Pradesh’, in ‘Political Process
in Uttar Pradesh: Identity, Economic Reforms
and Governance, Sudha Pai(Ed.), Pearson
Longman, Delhi, 2007 |
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‘Trading Cows, Not Horses
- Towards A Clean Politics’, in Kashyap, Subhash
C. (ed.), Coalition Government and Politics
in India, Vimot, New Delhi, 1997. |
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‘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. |
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‘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. |
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‘Factionalism in the Congress party
in Uttar Pradesh’ in Verinder Grover and Ranjana
Arora.(ed.), Encyclopedia of India and Her
States, 10 volumes, Vedam Books, New Delhi,
1996. |
Books Published
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‘The Indian Civil Service
Examination: The Arts and Science of Success’,
L.N.Agarwal Publishers, Agra, 2001. |
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‘Bharatiya Civil Seva Pariksha : Safalata ke Kalatmak avam Vagyanik
Rananiti’, L.N.Agarwal Publishers, Agra,
2001. |
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Rajniti-shastra,
Grantham, Kanpur, 1997. |
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Rajaiti-Vijyan-
Ek Saidhantik Adhyayan, Epsilon Publishers,
Kanpur, 1995.‘ |
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‘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) |
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