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Dr. Ashutosh Kumar
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Department of Political Science
Punjab University, Chandigarh,
Punjab 160 014
Phone Numbers:
Department: 0172-2534765 / 2534755
Residence: 0172-2698016
e-mail: ashutosh_chd2002@yahoo.co.in
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Ashutosh Kumar is Reader and Chairman at the Department
of Political Science, Panjab University, Chandigarh.
He has been teaching for more than fifteen years and
has supervised the completion of one Doctoral and seven
M.Phil theses. He participated in a summer course on
Human Rights at IIHR, Strasbourg, France in July 1998
and in October, 2002 taught a credit course on 'Ethnic
Conflicts in South Asia: A case study of Jammu and Kashmir'
at the International School of Social Sciences, University
of Tampere, Finland.
Dr. Kumar has worked on the India segment of the World
Values Survey Project and a UGC sponsored project titled
`Ethno-Religious Identity and Political Responses in
Kashmir: A Discourse on the issue of Autonomy', March
1999 to 2001.
He has been associated with Lokniti since 2001 and has
served as the Punjab State Coordinator for the Post-Poll
Survey on the Punjab Assembly Elections in February
2002 and the Parliamentary Elections in May, 2004. Dr.
Kumar has completed a two month South-South faculty
exchange fellowship at theCentre for Democracy and Development,
Lagos, Nigeria, from November-December 2004. In January
2005 he undertook a study of Shiromani Akali Dal in
Punjab as part of an International IDEA sponsored project
on political parties in collaboration with the CSDS.
Research interests :
Dr. Kumar's main areas of interest include Indian
Politics and State Politics with special reference to
Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir. He has recently completed
a research paper on 'Constitutional framework for autonomy
in India: Its historical and legal evolution' for a
forthcoming book on autonomy edited by Prof. Ranabir
Samaddar to be published by Sage. He has worked on 'Globalization
and democracy in post-colonial India: Identity, marginality
and development' as part of the research undertaken
under the South-South exchange programme between the
Centre for Democracy and Development CDD, Lagos, Nigeria
and the CSDS.
Selected Publications
Articles in Professional / Refereed journals
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'Electoral
Politics in Punjab:1966-2004', Journal of Punjab
Studies, Volume 12, Number 1, Spring 2005.
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'Nigeria:
Political economy of Oil, Economic and Political
Weekly, June 11, 2005. |
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'Problems
of Democratic Transition and Consolidation in
Nigeria: Drawing Lessons from the Democratic
Experience in India', Journal of Asian and African
Studies, Sage, (Forthcoming).
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'Punjab:
In Search of New Leadership, Economic and
Political Weekly, December 18, 2004. |
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'Hamza
Alavi and post-colonial state', Economic
and Political Weekly, August7, 2004.
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'Politics
of ethno-religious identity in Kashmir: Dominant
concerns and possible solutions' Contemporary
India, Vol3, No. 2, April - June 2004.
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'Electoral
politics in Punjab: A study of the Akali Dal',
Economic and Political Weekly, May 20,
2004.
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'State
Electoral Politics: Looking for the Larger Picture',
Economic and Political Weekly, July26,
2003.
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'The
Recent Assembly Elections in Punjab: Some Reflections
on Results and Changing Voter Preferences',
International Journal of Punjab Studies,
Vol. 9:1, 2002.
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'Reflections
on recent assembly elections in Punjab', Mainstream,
May 18, 2002 (co-authored).
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'Punjab
Assembly Elections: Decline of Identity Politics',
Economic and Political Weekly, April
13,2002 (co-authored).
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'Ideology
and politics of National Conference in Kashmir',
Co-authored in Arun K Jana and Bhupen Sarmah,
ed., Class, Ideology and Political Parties in
India (New Delhi: South Asian Publishers, 2002).
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'Communal Trifurcation of Jammu & Kashmir',
Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XXXVI,
No. 16, April 21-27, 2001.
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'Why Kashmir matters? Issues and Options', Punjab
journal of Politics, Vol. xxv, no. 2, 2001.
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Authored Books
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Political Economy of the State in India
(Delhi: Atlantic Publishers, 1993)
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Edited Books
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(Co-edited) Burning Issues in Jammu & Kashmir
Politics (Jammu: Jay and Kay Publishers, 1999).
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(Co-edited) Politics of Autonomy in Jammu
and Kashmir (Jammu: Vinod Publishers, 1999).
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Book Reviews
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Book
Review, Seminar, May 2005. Madhu Purnima Kishwar
(2005): deepening democracy: Challenges of governance
and globalization in India, OUP, New Delhi, Rs
595[Hardback]. |
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Book Review, Seminar, 539, July 2004. Hindu
nationalism and Indian politics [with an introduction
by Pratap Bahnu Mehta]. An omnibus comprising
of John Zavos, The Emergence of Hindu Nationalism
in India; Thomas Blom Hansen, The Saffron Wave;
Christophe Jafferlot and Thomas Blom Hansen,
ed., The BJP and the Compulsions of Politics
in India, OUP, New Delhi, 2004.
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Book Review, Seminar, 534, February 2004. Sumantra
Bose, Kashmir: Roots of conflict, paths to peace,
Vistaar Publications, New Delhi, 2003.
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Book
review, Mainstream December 2003. Gurpreet
Mahajan in collaboration with Helmut Reifeld,
ed., The Public and The Private: Issues of Democratic
Citizenship, Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2003.
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Book
Review, Seminar, 531, November 2003.
Ajay K. Mehra, DD Khanna and Gert W. Kueck,
Eds. Political parties and Party Systems, Sage,
New Delhi, 2003, P.420, Rs.850.
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Book
Review, Pacific Affairs, Spring 2002-2003,
Volume 76, No.5. Surinder S Jodhka, ed.,
Community and Identity: contemporary Discourses
on Culture and Politics in India, Sage Publications,
New Delhi, 2001.
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Dr. Ashutosh Kumar also contributes to the
Newspaper The Tribune, Chandigarh.
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