Pralay Kanungo

Pralay Kanungo is currently Chairperson and Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University’s Centre for Political Studies (CPS). In addition, he has held numerous posts at prestigious institutions such as Heidelberg University, International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden, and the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi. He has also been ICCR Chair of Contemporary India Studies at Leiden University (2013-2018). His research interests include Hindu nationalism, Hindu diaspore, religion, politics, and development and resistance. Kanungo is the author of RSS’s Tryst with Politics: From Hedgewar to Sudarshan and had co-edited The Algebra of Warfare-Welfare: A Long View of India’s 2014 Election, The Politics of Ethnicity in India, Nepal and China, Public Hinduisms and Cultural Entrenchment of Hindutva: Local Mediations and Forms of Convergence.

 

Stories by the author:

Balasaheb Deoras: Kingmaker of the Sangh