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Sunil Kumar Sahu is Professor of Political Science at
DePauw University DePauw University is a private liberal arts university in Greencastle, Indiana. It has an enrollment of 1,972 students. The school has a Methodist heritage and was originally known as Indiana Asbury University. DePauw is a member of both the G ...
. He has been a member of the Political Science department since 1988 and was the department chair for 10 years (2007–08, 2010–19). Prior to DePauw, he taught Political Science at St. Xavier College (now St. Xavier University) in Chicago and
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(Shyamlal College) in India. A naturalized citizen of the United States, Sahu is a native of India. He was born in Muzaffarpur, Bihar, in a politically active family—his father, a grandfather and two
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were involved in India's independence movement. Sahu attended L.S. College in Muzaffarpur, where he was influenced by the faculty who carried on the legacy of nationalist leaders who had taught at that college a generation earlier, such as
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, India's first President (1950–62), Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, a Hindi nationalist poet, and
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, President of Indian National Congress at the time of the country's independence in 1947. Sahu received his Bachelor's degree in Political Science (honors) and History from Bihar University in India, his Master's degrees in Political Science from Bihar University and the University of Chicago, and his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago. Before starting his Ph.D. program, Sahu received advanced graduate training in International Relations at the School of International Studies,
Jawaharlal Nehru University Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) is a public major research university located in New Delhi, India. It was established in 1969 and named after Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister. The university is known for leading faculties and r ...
, in New Delhi. His teachers at the University of Chicago included
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,
Susanne Hoeber Rudolph Susanne Hoeber Rudolph (April 3, 1930 – December 23, 2015) was an American author, political thinker and educationist. She was a William Benton Distinguished Service Professor Emerita at the University of Chicago and was actively interested ...
(President of
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2003-04), Philip Schmitter, Leonard Binder,
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, and
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, as well as Bernard Silberman in comparative politics and
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and Morton A. Kaplan in international relations. Sahu is the department's specialist in Comparative Politics, Politics of Developing Nations (including China and South Asia), Terrorism, and International Politics/International Political Economy. He offers a number of courses at the introductory, intermediate and advanced levels: Intro to Comparative Politics and Government (POLS 150, a required course for political science majors and minors), Contemporary Political Ideologies (POLS 240), China and India in the 21st Century (POLS 253), Politics of Developing Nations (POLS 352), International Terrorism (POLS 390), Conflict and Cooperation in the Post-9/11 World (POLS 450, offered as a senior seminar course), and International Relations of South Asia (POLS 390). He also teaches a Winter Term course on Bollywood Films: Classic and Contemporary. Sahu is married and has two adult children. He lives in Avon, Indiana with his wife, Indu Vohra, also a political scientist. He is a member of two Indian religious and cultural organizations in greater Indianapolis—Gita Mandal and Sikh Satsang. He is a political "news junkie" and his hobbies include photography and Bollywood oldies—films and songs.


Works

Sahu is the author of the book ''Technology Transfer, Dependence and Self-Reliant Development in the Third World: The Machine-Tool and Pharmaceutical Industries in India'' (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998) and book chapters "''Religion and Politics in India: The Rise of Hindu Nationalism and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in India''," in ''Religion and Politics in Comparative Perspective'': ''The One, the Few, and the Many'', edited by Ted Jelen and Clyde Wilcox (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and "''Changing Regimes in Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property in India''," in C. Steven LaRue (ed.), ''The India Handbook'' (Chicago and London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997). He has published numerous articles in scholarly journals and reference books and encyclopedias. He recently published "Globalization, WTO and the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry," in ''Asian Affairs: An American Rev''iew (Vol. 41, No. 4, 2014). He is currently working on a book titled ''Democracy in the Third World: Why it has succeeded in India and failed in Nigeria'' and a monograph on ''Nuclear Security in South Asia''. During a sabbatical leave in 2003, Sahu conducted field research in India where he interviewed India's top nuclear and missile scientists, including President
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam (; 15 October 193127 July 2015) was an Indian aerospace scientist and statesman who served as the 11th President of India from 2002 to 2007. He was born and raised in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu and studied phy ...
. He was the campus host for
Benazir Bhutto Benazir Bhutto ( ur, بینظیر بُھٹو; sd, بينظير ڀُٽو; Urdu ; 21 June 1953 – 27 December 2007) was a Pakistani politician who served as the 11th and 13th prime minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990 and again from 1993 t ...
, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, during her visit to DePauw in 1997.


External links


Sunil Sahu's websiteForum with Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan; 7 May 1997
*https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sahu++lipson *https://www.amazon.com/Technology-Transfer-Dependence-Self-Reliant-Development/dp/0275959619 *https://www.worldcat.org/title/religion-and-politics-in-comparative-perspective-the-one-the-few-and-the-many/oclc/47100822 *https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1w8LKTxhalkHOvuRVSC40Ke5IN3kAL4HS *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KrhSzweyC4


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sahu, Sunil Year of birth missing (living people) Indian emigrants to the United States University of Chicago alumni Living people DePauw University faculty Jawaharlal Nehru University alumni