(ed) Language and Politics in India (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2009)
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Autobiographical Note: Dr. Asha Sarangi is Professor at the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. She obtained her Ph.D. from the department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. She was the recipient of national scholarship by the Government of India to pursue her doctoral degree abroad. She has held various fellowships including the junior fellowship of the American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS). She was also awarded Junior Fellowship by the department of culture of Government of India and the Social Scientist Award under the Indo-French cultural exchange programme. Recently, she has been selected as a Global Partner for the Swiss National Science Foundation Funded project in Geneva, Switzerland. The main areas of her interest are political and cultural economy of development in modern India, state and development in India, identity and politics in South Asia and more specifically the politics of linguistic nationalism in modern India. She has written extensively on areas of language, nationalism, state formation and identity construction in edited volumes and various journals.
Details and Links to the Publications: She has most recently written a new introduction to V.P.Menon’s volume Integration of Indian States which has been re-published by the Orient Blackswan in 2014 after six decades. She has edited a volume (with Sudha Pai) titled Interrogating Reorganisation of States: Culture, Identity and Politics in India, published by Routledge, 2011. She has edited another volume Language and Politics in India, published by Oxford University Press, 2009, paperback edition, 2010. She has published several articles in journals and edited volumes on various themes. The selected list of her publications include India’s Language Regime: The Eighth Schedule in Linda Cardinal and Selma K.Sonntag (ed) State Traditions and Language Regimes (Montreal: McGill- Queen’s University, 2015) pp 205-218, States Reorganization Commission: A Critical Reading in Sudha Pai (ed) Handbook of Politics in Indian States: Regions, Parties and Economic Reforms (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2013), Introduction: Contextualizing Reorganisation in Interrogation Reorganisation of States, Nehru and the Reorganistion of States: Making of Political India in 1
Interrogating Reorganisation of States, Linguistic Diversity in a Federal Polity: An Indian Experience in Gupreet Mahajan (ed). Accommodating Diversity: Ideas and Institutional Practices (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2011) Enumeration and the Linguistic Identity Formation in Colonial North India in Studies in History, 25,2, 2009 (Sage Publications), pp 197-227, Languages as Women: The Feminisation of Linguistic Discourses in Colonial North India in Gender and History, Vol 21, #2, 2009 (Blackwell Publication Limited), pp. 287-304, Reorganisation: Then and Now in Frontline, Vol 26, # 26, Dec 19, 2009 –Jan 01, 2010, Tribal Languages and the Cultural Politics in Contemporary India in Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings 9:1:2009. University of Leeds, U.K. (special issue on Chotro: Adivasi Voices and Stories), States Reorganisation: Contemporary Concerns in esocialsciences, January 2009, Language(s), Culture(s) and Region(s): Identity Politics in Independent India in N.K.Das and V.R.Rao (ed), Identity, Cultural Pluralism and State in South Asia (Macmillan India Publication, New Delhi, 2009), Ambedkar and the Linguistic States: A Case for Maharashtra in Economic and Political Weekly, January 14, 2006, Ritual of Political Rhetoric in Seminar, July 2004, Bernard S Cohn: Historian of the Future in Economic and Political Weekly, June 5, 2004, and Language as a Marker of Religious Difference in Imtiaz Ahmad and Helmut Reifeld (ed) Lived Islam in South Asia: Adaptation, Accomodation and Conflict (Delhi: Social Science Press, 2004). Link to some of her published works are: (ed) Language and Politics in India (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2009) http://www.oup.co.in/search_detail.php?id=144696 (ed). Interrogating Reorganisation of States: Culture, Identity and Politics in India (New Delhi, New York: Routledge, 2011). www.taylorandfrancis.com Languages as Women: The Feminisation of Linguistic Discourses in Colonial North India http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=0953-5233 Enumeration and the Linguistic Identity Formation in Colonial North India 2
http://www.sih.sagepub.com Reorganisation: Then and Now www.frontlineonnet.com Tribal Languages and the Cultural Politics in Contemporary India http://www.movingworlds.net/volumes/9/Chotro.php States Reorganisation: Contemporary Concerns http://www.esocialsciences.com/articles/displayArticles.asp?Article_ID=183 9 Ambedkar and linguistic states : A case for Maharashtra http://www.epw.org.in/epw//uploads/articles/1590.pdf Bernard S Cohn: Historian of the future http://www.epw.org.in/epw//uploads/articles/7697.pdf Ritual of Political Rhetoric : Mandate for Change http://www.india-seminar.com/semframe.html Development with Secularism is the Mantra http://www.deccanherald.com/content/347514/development-secularism-mantra.html
Difficult Day Ahead in Seminar #649, September 2013 http://www.india-seminar.com/semframe.html Division Spurs Growth? (Cover Story) in Frontline, Vol 30, Issue 16, August 23, 2013, pp 17-20 http://www.frontline.in/cover-story/division-spursgrowth/article4995101.ece?homepage=true&css=print
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