Sumit Ganguly is a professor of political science at Indiana University and currently holds that University's Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations, focusing on comparative politics in South Asia. Ganguly completed his undergraduate degree at Berea College in 1977, his master's degree from Miami University 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, and the University of Texas at Austin. 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 (Distinguished Overseas Indian) award by the President of India in 2009. Selection Process of Pravasi Bhartiya Samman Award
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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