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PH.D-CANDIDATE Jai Prasad

Jai Prasad is a PhD student and member of the Global India Program of the European Training Network. He is currently working on his dissertation titled: “Revisiting the State: Politics, Development and Tribal Welfare in Jharkhand, India” under the supervision of Professor Rahul Mukherji. His research interests include the state and redistributive politics, public policies and governance, indigenous development and social welfare, and higher education and society.

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Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • Master Phil (Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, JNU, New Delhi): Dissertation: “The Changing Role of the Indian State in Higher Education Policy with Special Reference to Liberalization in India”
  • Master of Arts in Sociology (Centre for the Study of Social Systems, JNU, New Delhi)


Professional Background

  • Senior Commissioning Editor, Politics and Sociology, Oxford University Press, Global Academic Publishing, India (2010-2017)
  • Development Editor, Textbooks for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Pearson India (2006-2010)

Publications

Articles:

  • „Caste and Tribes,“ in Surinder Jodhka and Jules Naudet, eds., Oxford Handbook of Caste in Modern India (Delhi: Oxford University Press), 2023.

  • „The Primacy of Politics: Interrogating Indigeneity and Ecology in India“, Südasien-Chronik - South Asia Chronicle, no. 13 (2023): 303-327. 

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Opinion Pieces:

  • The Wire: With Rahul Mukherji, Seyed Hossein Zarhani and ASM Mostafizur Rahman, „Analysing the Modi Years – Credit and Criticism.“
  • Foreign Policy: With Sumit Ganguly, "India Faces a Looming Disaster."
  • Identities: With Rahul Mukherji and Seyed Hossein Zarhani, "Can Covid-19 Malign the Idea of India."

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