Gyanesh Kudaisya

Introduction

Gyanesh Kudaisya is an Associate Professor in the South Asian Studies Programme, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences at National University of Singapore (NUS). His current research is focused on India’s territorial reorganisation between 1947 and 1966 and on aspects of India’s diplomatic history in the 1950s and beyond. He is also interested in questions of border-making and geopolitics. He has authored A Republic in the Making: India in the 1950s (Oxford University Press, 2017) and Region, Nation, Heartland: Uttar Pradesh in India’s Body Politic (Sage, 2006) and co-authored The Aftermath of Partition in South Asia (Routledge, 2000). He has also co-edited three volumes of Partition and Post-Colonial South Asia (Routledge, 2008) under the Routledge ‘Major Works Series’.

Associate Professor Kudaisya received MA and MPhil degrees from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi and a PhD from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. He has held a post-doctoral fellowship at the Centre for Contemporary Studies of the Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, New Delhi. Prior to joining NUS, he was an Assistant Professor at the School of Arts in Nanyang Technological University. He has held visiting research appointments at Asia Research Institute, NUS and Research School of Pacific & Asian Studies of the Australian National University, Canberra as well as at the Institute of Advanced Studies, JNU and National Institute of Ethnology in Osaka.