Politics of India since Independence

Crispin Bates is Professor of Modern and Contemporary South Asian History in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology and Director of the Centre for South Asiannbsp;Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He has published extensively on tribal, peasant and labour history in India and the history of Indian overseas migration. Hisnbsp;publications include Subalterns and Raj: South Asia since 1600 (2007); (with Subho Basu) Rethinking Indian Political Institutions (2005), Beyond Representation:nbsp;Constructions of Identity in Colonial and Postcolonial India (2005), and (with Alpa Shah) Savage Attack: Tribal Insurgency in India (2014). Between 2006 and 2008, henbsp;was the Principal…  More Investigator in a major Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)-funded research project concerning the Indian Uprising, based at the Universitynbsp;of Edinburgh.Paul R Brass is Professor (Emeritus) of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. He has published numerous books andnbsp;articles on comparative and South Asian politics, ethnic politics, and collective violence. His work has been based on extensive field research in India duringnbsp;numerous visits since 1961.nbsp; He has been a University of Washington faculty member and Professor, Department of Political Science, and The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies sincenbsp;1965. He received his BA in 1958, Government, Harvard College; his MA in 1959, Political Science, University of Chicago; and his PhD in 1964, Political Science,nbsp;University of Chicago.nbsp; His teaching specializations include: comparative politics (South Asia), ethnicity and nationalism, as well as collective violence.nbsp; Prof. Brass has received Fellowships at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, 1994-95; Faculty Research Fellowships, American Institutenbsp;of Indian Studies: 1993, 1982- 83, 1973, 1966-76; John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 1972-73; Grants for Research on South Asia, American Council ofnbsp;Learned Societies and Social Science Research Council, 1966-67, 1973-74, 1977-78, 1982-83, amongst others.nbsp; In 2008, Brass received the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Emeritus Fellowship.nbsp; In 2012, Professor Brass was awarded a Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Fellowship grant for the academic year 2012-13, which allowed him to carry out further researchnbsp;in India during his stay of nine months. During that period he was affiliated with the Centre for the Study of Developing societies, Delhi.  Less

John F. Richards is Professor of History at Duke University. He is the author of The Mughal Empire (1993) and Mughal Administration in Golconda (1975) and the editor of Land, Property and the Environment (2001). He is coeditor of World Deforestation in the Twentieth Century (1988) and Global Deforestation and the Nineteenth-Century World Economy (1983).