Ornit Shani is an Israeli academic, author and professor at the Department of

Asian Studies Asian studies is the term used usually in North America and Australia for what in Europe is known as Oriental studies. The field is concerned with the Asian people, their cultures, languages, history and politics. Within the Asian sphere, Asian ...

at the

University of Haifa The University of Haifa ( he, אוניברסיטת חיפה Arabic: جامعة حيفا) is a university located on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel. Founded in 1963, the University of Haifa received full academic accreditation in 1972, becoming Is ...

. She won the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize in 2018 for her book ''How India Became Democratic.'' Her previous book is ''Communalism, Caste, and Hindu Nationalism: The Violence in Gujarat'' which covers identity and caste politics, the rise of

Hindu nationalism Hindu nationalism has been collectively referred to as the expression of social and political thought, based on the native spiritual and cultural traditions of the Indian subcontinent. "Hindu nationalism" or the correct term ''Hindū rāṣṭ ...

, Indian citizenship, democracy and the history of elections.

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