Sumit Ganguly is a professor of

political science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and la ...

Indiana University Indiana University (IU) is a system of public universities in the U.S. state of Indiana. Campuses Indiana University has two core campuses, five regional campuses, and two regional centers under the administration of IUPUI. *Indiana Universit ...

and currently holds that University's

Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore (; bn, রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He resh ...

Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations, focusing on comparative politics in South Asia. Ganguly completed his undergraduate degree at

Berea College Berea College is a private liberal arts work college in Berea, Kentucky. Founded in 1855, Berea College was the first college in the Southern United States to be coeducational and racially integrated. Berea College charges no tuition; every adm ...

in 1977, his master's degree from

Miami University Miami University (informally Miami of Ohio or simply Miami) is a public research university in Oxford, Ohio. The university was founded in 1809, making it the second-oldest university in Ohio (behind Ohio University, founded in 1804) and the 10 ...

in 1978, and his Ph.D. in political science at the University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign in 1984. Prior to being appointed at Indiana University, he taught at

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Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

, and the

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. Ganguly was a founding editor of the journals ''India Review'' and ''Asian Security''.

Published works

; Books * ''The Crisis in Kashmir: Portents of War, Hopes of Peace'', Cambridge University Press, 1999. * ''Conflict Unending: India–Pakistan Tensions since 1947'', Columbia University Press, 2002. * ''The Kashmir Question: Retrospect and Prospect'', Routledge, 2004. * ''Fearful Symmetry: India-Pakistan Crises in the Shadow of Nuclear Weapons'' (with Devin T. Hagerty), University of Washington, 2006. * ''Indian Foreign Policy'', Oxford University Press, 2012. . Revised 2015: * ''Deadly Impasse: India–Pakistan Relations at the Dawn of a New Century'', Cambridge University Press, 2016. * ''Ascending India and Its State Capacity: Extraction, Violence, and Legitimacy'' (with William R. Thompson), Yale University Press, 2017. * ''The Future of ISIS: Regional and International Implications'' (with Feisal al-Istrabadi), Brookings Institution Press, 2018. ; Edited works * ''India as an Emerging Power'', Routledge, 2004. * ''US-Indian Strategic Cooperation into the 21st Century: More than Words'' (coedited with Andrew Scobell and Brian Shoup), Routledge, 2006. * ''South Asia'', New York University Press, 2006. * ''India and Counterinsurgency: Lessons Learned'', Routledge, 2009, * ''Asian Rivalries: Conflict, Escalation, and Limitations on Two-level Games'' (co-edited with William R. Thompson), Stanford University Press, 2011.

Awards

Ganguly was awarded the

Pravasi Bharatiya Samman The Pravasi Bharatiya Samman (Overseas Indian Honour/Award) is the highest Indian award for Non-resident Indian and Overseas Citizen of India or an organisation or institution established and run by Non-Resident Indians or Persons of Indian Orig ...

(Distinguished Overseas Indian) award by the President of India in 2009. Selection Process of Pravasi Bhartiya Samman Award
Press Information Bureau, Government of India, retrieved 18 August 2020.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ganguly, Sumit Academic journal editors Indiana University faculty Writers about the Kashmir conflict Indian foreign policy writers Scholars of Indian foreign policy Recipients of Pravasi Bharatiya Samman