Ananya Vajpeyi is an Indian academic and writer. She is Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies. [1] She is the author of the book "Righteous Republic: The Political foundations of Modern India" published by the Harvard University Press. Born in 1972.
Vajpeyi is the daughter of Sahitya Akademi poet Kailash Vajpeyi. [2]
Vajpeyi received her MA at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, [3] M.Phil. from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, [4] and Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. She has taught at the University of Massachusetts [5] and Columbia University. [6] She is currently a visiting professor at Ashoka University.
Her book "Righteous Republic" won the Crossword Award for Non-Fiction (2013), jointly with "From the Ruins of Empire" by Pankaj Mishra. [7] It also won the Thomas J Wilson Memorial Prize from Harvard University Press [8] and the Tata First Book Award for Non-Fiction (2013). [9] It was also featured on the Books of the year 2012 list on The Guardian and The New Republic. [10] [11]
She is the co-editor with Ramin Jahanbegloo of Ashis Nandy: A Life in Dissent (OUP, 2018) [12] and with Volker Kaul of Minorities and Populism: Critical Perspectives from South Asia and Europe (Springer, 2020). [13]
She writes regularly for The Hindu newspaper [14] and Scroll.in. [15] She has conceived, commissioned and guest edited several issues of Seminar magazine. [16]
Ananya Vajpeyi is an Indian academic and writer. She is Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies. [1] She is the author of the book "Righteous Republic: The Political foundations of Modern India" published by the Harvard University Press. Born in 1972.
Vajpeyi is the daughter of Sahitya Akademi poet Kailash Vajpeyi. [2]
Vajpeyi received her MA at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, [3] M.Phil. from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, [4] and Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. She has taught at the University of Massachusetts [5] and Columbia University. [6] She is currently a visiting professor at Ashoka University.
Her book "Righteous Republic" won the Crossword Award for Non-Fiction (2013), jointly with "From the Ruins of Empire" by Pankaj Mishra. [7] It also won the Thomas J Wilson Memorial Prize from Harvard University Press [8] and the Tata First Book Award for Non-Fiction (2013). [9] It was also featured on the Books of the year 2012 list on The Guardian and The New Republic. [10] [11]
She is the co-editor with Ramin Jahanbegloo of Ashis Nandy: A Life in Dissent (OUP, 2018) [12] and with Volker Kaul of Minorities and Populism: Critical Perspectives from South Asia and Europe (Springer, 2020). [13]
She writes regularly for The Hindu newspaper [14] and Scroll.in. [15] She has conceived, commissioned and guest edited several issues of Seminar magazine. [16]