Sumit Ganguly

Sumit Ganguly
Education	Berea College
Alma mater	Miami University
Known for	Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations
Awards	Pravasi Bharatiya Samman
Scientific career
Fields	Political science
Institutions	Indiana University
Thesis	(1984)

Sumit Ganguly is an American political scientist. He is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution ^[1] and a professor of political science at Indiana University and currently holds that University's Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations, focusing on comparative politics in South Asia. ^{[2] [3] [4]}

Ganguly completed his undergraduate degree at Berea College in 1977, his master's degree from Miami University in 1978, and his Ph.D. in political science at the University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign in 1984. ^[4] Prior to being appointed at Indiana University, he taught at Michigan State University, Hunter College, Columbia University, and the University of Texas at Austin. ^[4]

Ganguly was a founding editor of the journals India Review and Asian Security. ^[5]

Published works

Books

• The Crisis in Kashmir: Portents of War, Hopes of Peace, Cambridge University Press, 1999. ISBN   9780521655668
• Conflict Unending: India–Pakistan Tensions since 1947, Columbia University Press, 2002. ISBN   9780231507400
• The Kashmir Question: Retrospect and Prospect, Routledge, 2004. ISBN   9781135756574
• Fearful Symmetry: India-Pakistan Crises in the Shadow of Nuclear Weapons (with Devin T. Hagerty), University of Washington, 2006. ISBN   978-0-295-98635-7
• Indian Foreign Policy, Oxford University Press, 2012. ISBN   9780198080367. Revised 2015: ISBN   9780198082217
• Deadly Impasse: India–Pakistan Relations at the Dawn of a New Century, Cambridge University Press, 2016. ISBN   9780521763615
• Ascending India and Its State Capacity: Extraction, Violence, and Legitimacy (with William R. Thompson), Yale University Press, 2017. ISBN   9780300224993
• The Future of ISIS: Regional and International Implications (with Feisal al-Istrabadi), Brookings Institution Press, 2018. ISBN   9780815732174

Edited works

• India as an Emerging Power, Routledge, 2004. ISBN   9781135761769
• US-Indian Strategic Cooperation into the 21st Century: More than Words (coedited with Andrew Scobell and Brian Shoup), Routledge, 2006. ISBN   9780415702157
• South Asia, New York University Press, 2006. ISBN   9780814731765
• India and Counterinsurgency: Lessons Learned, Routledge, 2009, ISBN   9781134008094
• Asian Rivalries: Conflict, Escalation, and Limitations on Two-level Games (co-edited with William R. Thompson), Stanford University Press, 2011. ISBN   9780804775960

Awards

Ganguly was awarded the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman (Distinguished Overseas Indian) award by the President of India in 2009. ^[6]

References

1. "Sumit Ganguly". Hoover Institution. Retrieved 2024-11-16.
2. Ganguly, Sumit (July 19, 2011). "Afghanistan Is Now India's Problem". Foreign Policy.
3. "Rabindranath Tagore Professor of Indian Cultures and Civilizations". Indiana University.
4. "Sumit Ganguly | Department of Political Science | Indiana University Bloomington". polisci.indiana.edu. Retrieved 2017-02-06.
5. "India Review".
6. Selection Process of Pravasi Bhartiya Samman Award, Press Information Bureau, Government of India, retrieved 18 August 2020.