Uday chandra biography of barack

Uday Chandra is an Assistant Professor of Government. He received his B.A. in economics from Grinnell College and his PhD in political science from Yale University in 2013. He received the 2013 Sardar Patel Award for writing the best dissertation in a US university on any aspect of modern South Asia. Before coming to Doha, he held a prestigious research fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Goettingen, Germany.

Uday's research lies at the intersection between critical agrarian studies, political anthropology, postcolonial theory, and South Asian studies. His research has focused on caste, tribe, and the state in modern India as well as indigeneity and mobility in a broader comparative postcolonial canvas. Uday's work has been published in the Law & Society Review, Social Movement Studies, New Political Science, Critical Sociology, The Journal of Contemporary Asia, Contemporary South Asia, TheIndian Economic & Social History Review, and Modern Asian Studies. He has co-edited volumes and journal issues on self-making in modern South Asia, subaltern politics and the state in modern India, caste relations in eastern India, social movements across rural India today, and transnational circularities across the Indian Ocean.

His first monograph Negotiating Leviathan: Making Tribes and States in Modern India will be published by Stanford University Press. He is also working on a second book project on nationalism and democracy in postcolonial India.