Ananya Vajpeyi Explained

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

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ananya Vajpeyi. 2020-06-23. www.csds.in.
  2. Web site: Kailash Vajpeyi: A poet embraces his favourite subject – death. Gulati. Sumegha. 2 April 2015. The Indian Express. Indian Express Group. August 28, 2016.
  3. Web site: The story of my Sanskrit. Vajpeyi. Ananya. 16 August 2014. The Hindu. N. Ram. August 28, 2016.
  4. Web site: List of Scholars. 2020-06-23. The Rhodes Project. en-US.
  5. Vajpeyi. Ananya. 2010-07-11. Peace in His Time. History Faculty Publication Series.
  6. Web site: People Ananya Vajpeyi . The Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University. 2020-06-23. heymancenter.org.
  7. Web site: Ravi Subramaniam wins his third Crossword Book award in popular category . 9 December 2013. News18.com. August 28, 2016.
  8. Web site: Gandhiji Overshadowed Ambedkar. https://web.archive.org/web/20140907235644/http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/thiruvananthapuram/Gandhiji-Overshadowed-Ambedkar/2014/08/12/article2374538.ece. dead. 7 September 2014. Thomas. Pramod. August 12, 2014. The New Indian Express. August 28, 2016.
  9. Web site: Author interview: 'Swaraj was a quest for an Indian self,' says Ananya Vajpeyi. Yasir. Sameer. December 16, 2013. FirstPost. Network 18 media. August 28, 2016.
  10. Web site: Books of the year 2012: authors choose their favourites. Guardian. The. 23 November 2012. The Guardian. Guardian News and Media. August 28, 2016.
  11. New Republic Editor and Writer Picks: Best Books of 2012. Staff. The New Republic. 16 December 2012. The New Republic. Hamilton Fish V. August 28, 2016.
  12. Web site: 2018-05-13. Book Review: Ashis Nandy: A Life in Dissent. 2020-06-23. The Financial Express. en-US.
  13. Book: Minorities and Populism – Critical Perspectives from South Asia and Europe. 2020. Springer International Publishing. 978-3-030-34097-1. Kaul. Volker. Philosophy and Politics - Critical Explorations. en. Vajpeyi. Ananya.
  14. Web site: Ananya Vajpeyi. 2020-06-23. The Hindu. en.
  15. Web site: Ananya Vajpeyi Scroll.in. 2020-06-23. Ananya Vajpeyi. 25 November 2019 . en.
  16. Web site: Seminar issues guest edited by Ananya Vajpeyi. 2020-06-23. www.csds.in.

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