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| | | Welcome to the web-pages of the Politics of South Asia Specialist Group. We are a multidisciplinary network of academics with an interest in the politics of South Asia. The members of the Group are principally based in the United Kingdom, but we have an international membership profile.
The Group was established under the auspices of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom. The primary function of the Politics of South Asia Specialist Group is to organise South Asia-related panels and roundtable discussions at the annual meeting of the Political Studies Association. We are a very active group within this academic organisation. Moreover, we have sponsored a number of South Asia-related events, largely conferences and workshops. Some of these functions have resulted in a number of publications, including Katharine Adeney and Lawrence S? (eds.), Coalition Politics and Hindu Nationalism (London: Routledge 2005).
The Politics of South Asia Specialist Group is presently convened by Dr Lawrence S?, of the Asia Research Centre, at the London School of Economics. Please feel free to contact him if you have any questions or comments about the activities of the Group. He is also keen to hear from you if you have an interesting proposal for organising a panel at the annual meeting of the PSA or if you are interested in getting the Group involved in a politics of South Asia-related event in the United Kingdom.
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Lawrence Saez, Ph. D. University of Chicago
Lawrence Saez is a Senior Lecturer in Comparative and International Politics, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). His research is focused on comparative political economy, particularly as it pertains to the challenges of economic reform across different industry sectors as well as fiscal federalism in developing countries. He is the author of Federalism Without a Centre: The Impact of Political Reform and Economic Liberalization on India's Federal System (Sage 2002) and Banking Reform in India and China (Palgrave MacMillan 2004). He is the co-editor (with Katharine Adeney) of Coalition Politics and Hindu Nationalism (Routledge 2005).
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Rochana Bajpai, D. Phil. University of Oxford
Rochana Bajpai is Lecturer in Politics at the Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS, University of London. Her principal research interests are in theories of multiculturalism; the state and political ideologies in India. Her publications include: 'Re-defining Equality: Social Justice in the Mandal debate, 1990' in V.R. Mehta and T. Pantham (eds.), Political Ideas in Modern India: Thematic Explorations (Sage, 2006); 'The conceptual vocabularies of secularism and minority rights in India', Journal of Political Ideologies, 7(2), June 2002; and 'Constituent Assembly Debates and Minority Rights', Economic and Political Weekly, XXXV, 21- 22, May 27, 2000. She is currently completing a book on group rights and democracy in India, and starting a new project on comparative multiculturalism.
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