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Jun 29, 2018 · Devesh Kapur. The study of India in the United States was relatively modest prior to India’s independence. In 1939, the great Sanskritist, W. Norman Brown, who established the first academic department of South Asian Studies in the US reflected, “It takes no gift of prophesy to predict that [during the second half of the twentieth century ...
Apr 19, 2023 · In Internal Security in India, Amit Ahuja, Devesh Kapur, and a cast of leading scholars on the subject focus on India's security and the threats it faces.Since Independence, the Indian state has grappled with a variety of internal security challenges, including insurgencies, terrorist attacks, caste and communal violence, riots, and electoral violence.
Sep 4, 2018 · Kapur received the Joseph R. Levenson Teaching Prize, awarded to the best junior faculty at Harvard College and Outstanding Teaching in Political Science by the American Political Science Association, in 2005. Devesh holds a PhD from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton. Media Contact. Nate Thompson. Associate Director of Marketing and ...
Apr 21, 2017 · Chapter 1: Introduction Authors: Devesh Kapur, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, and Milan Vaishnav. This chapter outlines the analytical framework for the volume, situating the book’s inquiry of India’s institutional foundations in the larger context of the multiple transformations the country has experienced since 1947.
DEVESH KAPUR. Starr Foundation South Asia Studies Professor Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Johns Hopkins University 1619 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington DC 20036 Phone: 202-663-5633 (office) Email: dkapur1@jhu.edu. EMPLOYMENT.
DEVESH KAPUR, Ph.D., joined the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in July 2018 from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a professor of political science and the director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India, holding the Madan Lal Sobti Chair for the Study of Contemporary India.
Devesh Kapur, Why Does the Indian State Both Fail and Succeed?, The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 34, No. 1 (Winter 2020), pp. 31-54
