Sumit Ganguly

Sumit Ganguly is the Rabindranath Tagore Professor of Indian Cultures and Civilizations, and Professor of Political Science at the Indiana University. Professor Ganguly’s research and writing interests are focused on South Asia. He has published extensively on ethnic conflict, inter-state war and defense and security policy. His articles have appeared in Asian Affairs and Asian Survey, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the Journal of Asian and African Affairs, the Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, Foreign Affairs, the Journal of Strategic Studies, International Security, Survival, and the Washington Quarterly.

His most recent work, published by Columbia University Press and Oxford University Press (New Delhi), is entitled “Conflict Unending: India-Pakistan Tensions Since 1947.” He also recently published “The Crisis in Kashmir: Portents of War, Hopes of Peace” (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press and Washington, DC: The Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1999). His research and writing have been supported by grants from the Asia Foundation, the American Institute for Indian Studies, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Ford Foundation, the W. Alton Jones Foundation and the United States Institute of Peace. He has also been a guest scholar and a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC and a visiting fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (New York) and the International Institute of Strategic Studies (London). Professor Ganguly serves on the editorial boards of Asian Affairs, Asian Survey, Current History and the Journal of Strategic Studies. He is also the editor of a new journal, The India Review, published by Frank Cass and Company.