Ananya Vajpeyi

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

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