Ananya Vajpeyi is an Indian academic and writer. She is Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies.[1] She is the author of the book "Righteous Republic: The Political foundations of Modern India" published by the Harvard University Press. Born in 1972.
Life and career
Vajpeyi is the daughter of Sahitya Akademi poet Kailash Vajpeyi.[2]
Vajpeyi received her MA at the Jawaharlal Nehru University,[3] M.Phil. from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar,[4] and Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. She has taught at the University of Massachusetts[5] and Columbia University.[6] She is currently a visiting professor at Ashoka University.
Works
Her book "Righteous Republic" won the Crossword Award for Non-Fiction (2013), jointly with "From the Ruins of Empire" by Pankaj Mishra.[7] It also won the Thomas J Wilson Memorial Prize from Harvard University Press[8] and the Tata First Book Award for Non-Fiction (2013).[9] It was also featured on the Books of the year 2012 list on The Guardian and The New Republic.[10][11]
She is the co-editor with Ramin Jahanbegloo of Ashis Nandy: A Life in Dissent (OUP, 2018)[12] and with Volker Kaul of Minorities and Populism: Critical Perspectives from South Asia and Europe (Springer, 2020).[13]
She writes regularly for The Hindu newspaper[14] and Scroll.in.[15] She has conceived, commissioned and guest edited several issues of Seminar magazine.[16]
See also
References
External links
- Official website at Centre for the Study of Developing Societies