Excited to share that our Postdoctoral Fellow Anirvan Chowdhury was interviewed for this article on the role of women and youth in India's upcoming election. washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/…

How do norms and partisan mobilization strategies shape women's political participation? And what does this mean for political parties in 2024 and beyond? I explore in an essay for Carnegie's #IndiaElects2024 series: carnegieendowment.org/2024/04/26/how…

What is the secret to the BJP's success among women voters? Our latest Carnegie Endowment #IndiaElects2024 essay by Anirvan Chowdhury argues that the party marked emphasis on "seva" (selfless service) frames politics as role-congruent for women carnegieendowment.org/2024/04/26/how…

How and why political parties came to love the woman voter. Akshi Anirvan Chowdhury Carnegie South Asia

The latest in our Carnegie Endowment Hindustan Times #IndiaElects2024 collaboration: Anirvan Chowdhury on how the BJP wins over women voters hindustantimes.com/india-news/ele…

I'll be giving a public lecture on some of my coal history work in Bangalore at Science Gallery Bengaluru on 16 June at 4 pm. Do register and come if interested (link below). carbon.scigalleryblr.org/programmes?p=c…

Oracle might just have to match some #IPL offers for Saurabh Netravalkar next year #USAvsIndia

Incredibly honored and grateful to the award committee for this recognition! Also, indebted to my dissertation committee, Thad Dunning, Jennifer Bussell, Alison Post, and @tedmiguel, without whom this wouldn't have been possible.

Self praise is always avoidable, but proud to launch ⁦⁦Nishant⁩ ‘s caste, state, party & portfolio dataset of all Council of Ministers since 1952 from ⁦Hindustan Times⁩ data journalism team. Months of work behind this. Today is a good day to get a subscription :-)

After months of work, the HT Data team is launching its database on the Council of Ministers from 1952-2024. We will be running a four part series mainly to look at: 1. Evolution of the council of ministers 2. Caste Inequality in COM 3. States, Parties and Caste 1st part is here

Don't miss out on our upcoming event! Join us Thursday, Oct. 24 for The Representation Trap: How and Why Muslims Struggle to Maintain Power in India with Harvard University Professor, Feyaad Allie. Ford Hall 407 | 12:30 p.m. Lunch provided 🔗: bit.ly/Feyaad

Don't miss our newest Inside Asia episode: Inside Afghanistan under the Taliban with Dr, Omar Sharifi (University of Minnesota, Humphrey School of Public Affairs) and CAD research fellow Riaz Nassiry. 🎙️Listen Now: bit.ly/Sharifi24

Check out CAD's latest pod with Charles McClean of Yale MacMillan Center analyzing the LDP's Weak Performance in Japan's recent elections. 🎙️: bit.ly/CMcClean

At this point, this edition of the #BorderGavaskarTrophy should be called the #BumrahHeadSeries

1/ Out now: "How Indian Voters Decide"--a compendium of 10 essays that Carnegie Endowment published in 2024 to explore the underlying drivers of political behavior in India as part of our #IndiaElects2024 initiative.

Key question driving #DelhiElections2025 is the relative turnout among different classes & localities. a very revealing chart by Nishant on class/locality voting patterns in 2020 elections using booth-level data compiled by Shamindra Roy (শমীন্দ্র) & Anirvan Chowdhury !! #DelhiElections

Join us for a conversation with Yamini Aiyar, a public policy expert credited with creating one of the largest spending tracking surveys for primary education in India. Register today! bit.ly/efficiencytrap

Congrats to Anirvan Chowdhury (University of Louisville) for winning the Weber Best Conference Paper Award!

The much awaited sequel to the award-winning VAJPAYEE: THE ASCENT OF THE HINDU RIGHT (1924 – 1977) is here. BELIEVER’S DILEMMA: VAJPAYEE AND THE HINDU RIGHT’S PATH TO POWER (1977–2018) concludes Abhishek Choudhary’s landmark study of the first prime minister of the Hindu Right.