Shashank Chaturvedi
Assistant Professor, Institute of Law · Nirma University
Research Interests
Religion, Culture and Politics, election studies, politics of knowledge
Biography
Shashank Chaturvedi is a political anthropologist working in the area of religion and politics. His work addresses the interplay of religion, culture and power in Contemporary North India with a special focus on Eastern Uttar Pradesh. Currently he is teaching at Institute of Law, Nirma University. Before this, he has taught at TISS and University of Delhi of seven years. After his PhD, he was a co-researcher in a project, ‘Democratic Cultures in South Asia,’ funded by the European Research Council (ERC) and Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) based at the University College London (UCL), UK. Two of his key research articles are, one published in Society and Culture in South Asia, Sage 2017, and the other one is in Contemporary South Asia, Routledge 2019. Also working on the Project “Understanding the 2022 state elections in eastern UP (Uttar Pradesh), India (SRG21\211342)” supported by the British Academy.
Education
Ph D Jawaharlal Nehru University
Recent Scopus Publications
- Mandir vs Mandal in 2024: are there limits to the BJP’s social engineering?
- The 2022 State Elections in Uttar Pradesh and the RSS-isation of the BJP
- Politics in Gorakhpur since the 1920s: the making of a safe ‘Hindu’ constituency
- Khichdi Mela in Gorakhnath Math: Symbols, Ideas and Motivations
Links
- ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7430-6921
- Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=juOR61UAAAAJ
- Scopus https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57205406278
- Personal Weblink https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-shashank-chaturvedi