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Ashutosh Varshney is Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Previously, he taught, among other places, at Harvard University as an assistant and associate professor of government. His most recent work Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India (Yale University Press, 2002 and 2003) won the Gregory Luebbert Prize of the American Political Science Association for the best book in comparative politics in 2002, was Choice magazine’s “outstanding academic title”, and a Kiriyama Prize “Notable”. His other books are: Democracy, Development and the Countryside: Urban-Rural Struggles in India (Cambridge University Press, New York, 1995 and 1998), which in its PhD dissertation form won the Daniel Lerner Prize; India and the Politics of Developing Countries: Essays in Memory of Myron Weiner (Sage 2004; India in the Era of Economic Reforms (Oxford University Press, 1999 and 2000), coedited with Jeffrey Sachs; Beyond Urban Bias (Frank Cass, London, 1993). His research and teaching cover three areas: Ethnicity and Nationalism; Political Economy of Development; and South Asian Politics and Political Economy. His academic papers have appeared, among other journals, in World Politics, Perspectives on Politics, Comparative Politics, Daedalus, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Democracy, Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, Foreign Affairs, Policy Sciences, and Asian Survey. He is currently working on a multi-country project on cities and ethnic conflict, and on the politics of economic reforms in India. For research, he has received fellowships from the Social Science Research Council, the Ford Foundation, the McArthur Foundation, the Open Society Institute, the U.S. Institute of Peace, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He has served on the former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan’s Millennium Task Force on Poverty (2002-5); the South Asia Task Force of the Council on Foreign Relations (New York); and the Advisory Board of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS, Washington). He is a consultant to the World Bank, and has also been a consultant to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Human Rights Watch, Freedom House, and UK Department For International Development (DFID). Selected Publications Books
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