Ashutosh Varshney (born 1957) is an Indian-born political scientist and academic. He is currently the Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and the Social Sciences and Professor of Political Science at
Brown University, where he also directs the Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia at the
Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. Varshney previously taught at
Harvard University and the
University of Michigan. He is notable for his contributions to the study of ethnic conflict and civil society, as well as the study of politics in India.[1] He is also a frequent columnist for the Indian Express.[2]
Varshney's books include Battles Half Won: India’s Improbable Democracy (2013), Collective Violence in Indonesia (2009), Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India (Yale 2002), India in the Era of Economic Reforms (1999), and Democracy, Development and the Countryside: Urban-Rural Struggles in India (Cambridge 1995).
He is currently working on three projects; a multi-country project on cities and ethnic conflict; political economy of
urbanization in India; and Indian politics and society between elections.
Varshney, Ashutosh (1993). Beyond urban bias. London, England Portland, Oregon: Frank Cass.
ISBN9780714645117. Based on a special issue of the Journal of Development Studies guest edited.
Varshney, Ashutosh (1998). Democracy, development, and the countryside: urban-rural struggles in India. Cambridge England New York, New York, USA: Cambridge University Press.
ISBN9780521646253. Cambridge University Press, 1995; paperback edition, 1998. Winner of the Daniel Lerner Prize in its PhD dissertation form, MIT, 1990. Indian edition published by Foundation Books (Delhi) in 1996.
Varshney, Ashutosh; Sachs, Jeffrey D.; Bajpai, Nirupam (2000). India in the era of economic reforms. New Delhi Oxford: Oxford University Press.
ISBN9780195655292.
Varshney, Ashutosh (2003). Ethnic conflict and civic life: Hindus and Muslims in India. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.
ISBN9780300100136.
Varshney, Ashutosh (2004). India and the politics of developing countries: essays in memory of Myron Weiner. New Delhi Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications.
ISBN9780761932888. Based in part on a special issue of Asian Survey.
Varshney, Ashutosh; Herwitz, Daniel (2008). Midnight's diaspora: critical encounters with Salman Rushdie. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
ISBN9780472050482.
Reprinted as: Varshney, Ashutosh; Herwitz, Daniel (2009). Midnight's diaspora: critical encounters with Salman Rushdie. Delhi, India: Penguin Viking.
ISBN9780670083435.
Varshney, Ashutosh (2010). Collective violence in Indonesia. Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers.
ISBN9781588266873. Based in part on a special issue of the Journal of East Asian Studies, guest edited.