Sumit Ganguly Explained

Sumit Ganguly
Fields:	Political science
Workplaces:	Indiana University
Education:	Berea College
Alma Mater:	Miami University
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Thesis Year:	1984
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Known For:	Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations
Awards:	Pravasi Bharatiya Samman
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Sumit Ganguly is an American political scientist. He is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution^[1] and 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.^[2] ^[3] ^[4]

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 Michigan State University, Hunter College, Columbia University, and the University of Texas at Austin.

Ganguly was a founding editor of the journals India Review and Asian Security.^[5]

Published works

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.

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.

Ganguly was awarded the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman (Distinguished Overseas Indian) award by the President of India in 2009.^[6]