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{{Short description|Indian academic and public policy scholar}}
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| alma_mater = [[Jawaharlal Nehru University]]
| occupation = Academic
| employer = [[Tata Institute of Social Sciences]]
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| title = Campus Director, TISS Hyderabad
| awards = Fell Fund Fellowship
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'''Aseem Prakash''' is an Indian academic and public policy scholar who serves as campus director and professor of public policy at the [[Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad]]. He specializes in research on social discrimination, sociology, and inclusive development in India.<ref name="TISS-faculty">{{cite web |title=Aseem Prakash |url=https://tiss.ac.in/view/9/employee/aseem-prakash/ |website=Tata Institute of Social Sciences |access-date=2 June 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-09-29 |title=TISS Hyderabad holds convocation, V-C hails institute's diversity |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/hyderabad/tiss-hyderabad-convocation-v-c-institute-diversity-9594997/ |access-date=2025-06-02 |website=The Indian Express |language=en}}</ref> His books have been reviewed in multiple academics journals and publications.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/books-reviews/when-inclusion-is-unfavourable/article7000153.ece|title=When inclusion is unfavourable|date=March 16, 2015|via=www.thehindu.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://publications.goettingen-research-online.de/handle/2/77339|title=Book Review: Aseem Prakash. 2015. Dalit Capital: State, Markets and Civil Society in Urban India|first=Sumeet|last=Mhaskar|date=June 1, 2017|journal=Journal of South Asian Development |doi=10.1177/0973174117715521|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>https://www.proquest.com/docview/2153713171/</ref>

==Early life and education==
Prakash was born in India. He completed his higher education at [[Jawaharlal Nehru University]] (JNU), New Delhi, at the Centre for Political Studies.<ref name="TISS-faculty"/> He earned his [[Master of Arts]] in Political Science, followed by a [[Master of Philosophy]] (M.Phil.) in Political Science, and subsequently completed his [[Doctor of Philosophy]] (Ph.D.) in Political Science from the same institution.<ref name="USIEF">{{cite web |title=Aseem Prakash |url=https://www.usief.org.in/meet-our-india-fulbr/aseem-prakash/ |website=United States-India Educational Foundation |access-date=2 June 2025}}</ref> Following his doctoral studies, Prakash was awarded the Fell Fund Fellowship at the [[University of Oxford]], where he conducted post-doctoral research.<ref name="UNESCO">{{cite web |title=Aseem Prakash |url=https://en.unesco.org/inclusivepolicylab/users/aseem-prakash |website=UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab |access-date=2 June 2025}}</ref>

==Career==
In 2012, Prakash was part of a two-member founding team that designed and launched India's first postgraduate programme in Public Policy at the Jindal School of Government and Public Policy.<ref name="TISS-faculty"/>

Since 2016, Prakash has served as Campus Director of TISS Hyderabad, where he also holds the position of Professor in the School of Public Policy and Governance.<ref name="TISS-faculty"/><ref>{{Cite news |date=2023-01-08 |title=138 students pass out with flying colours from Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Telangana |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/138-students-pass-out-with-flying-colours-from-telangana-institute/articleshow/96824824.cms |access-date=2025-06-02 |work=The Times of India |issn=0971-8257}}</ref> As the founding Chairperson of the School of Public Policy and Governance at TISS Hyderabad, he has been instrumental in establishing the institutional framework for public policy education in India.<ref name="UNESCO"/>

Prakash has worked for the [[United Nations Development Programme]] (UNDP) and the Department of Planning, Government of Maldives, to prepare the framework for the first Maldives Institute of Policy Studies.<ref name="UNESCO"/>

==Research==
Prakash's research focuses on the interface between state and markets, regulation and institutions, sociology of markets, social discrimination, and human development.<ref name="TISS-faculty"/>

==Selected publications==
===Books===
* {{cite book |last=Prakash |first=Aseem |year=2015 |title=Dalit Capital: State, Markets and Civil Society in Urban India |location=New Delhi |publisher=[[Routledge]] |isbn=978-1-138-82253-5}}<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Mhaskar |first=Sumeet |date=August 2017 |title=Book Review: Aseem Prakash. 2015. Dalit Capital: State, Markets and Civil Society in Urban India |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0973174117715521 |journal=Journal of South Asian Development |language=en |volume=12 |issue=2 |pages=206–209 |doi=10.1177/0973174117715521 |issn=0973-1741|doi-access=free }}</ref>
* {{cite book |last1=Jodhka |first1=Surinder |last2=Prakash |first2=Aseem |year=2016 |title=The Middle Class in India |location=New Delhi |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]}}

===Edited volumes===
* {{cite book |editor1-last=Bremen |editor1-first=Jan |editor2-last=Gurien |editor2-first=Isabelle |editor3-last=Prakash |editor3-first=Aseem |year=2009 |title=India's Unfree Workforce: Of Bondage Old and New |location=New Delhi |publisher=Oxford University Press}}<ref>{{Cite journal |last=De Neve |first=Geert |date=October 2010 |title=India's Unfree Workforce. Of Bondage Old and New – Edited by Jan Breman, Isabelle Guérin and Aseem Prakash |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1471-0366.2010.00281.x |journal=Journal of Agrarian Change |language=en |volume=10 |issue=4 |pages=588–591 |doi=10.1111/j.1471-0366.2010.00281.x |issn=1471-0358}}</ref>
* {{cite book |editor1-last=Harriss-White |editor1-first=Barbara |editor-link=Barbara_Harriss-White |editor2-last=Basile |editor2-first=Elisabetta |editor3-last=Dixit |editor3-first=Anita |editor4-last=Joddar |editor4-first=Pinaki |editor5-last=Prakash |editor5-first=Aseem |editor6-last=Vidyarthee |editor6-first=Kaushal |year=2013 |title=Dalits and Adivasis in India's Business Economy – Three Essays and an Atlas |location=New Delhi |publisher=Three Essay Press}}

==Awards and recognition==
* [[John Fell (bishop)|John Fell]] Fund [[Fellow]]ship, [[University of Oxford]]<ref name="USIEF"/>
* Initiated the dual degree MA programme in Public Policy and International Relations, a collaboration between [[TISS Hyderabad]] and [[Macquarie University]], Australia.<ref>{{Cite news |title=TISS, Macquarie University offer MA in public policy, international relations |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/tiss-macquarie-university-offer-ma-in-public-policy-international-relations/article68051373.ece |work=The Hindu}}</ref>
* Designed and launched India's first postgraduate programme in Public Policy at the [[Jindal School of Government and Public Policy]].<ref>{{Cite journal |date=2014 |title=Appointments/Programmes/Announcements |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24479755 |journal=Economic and Political Weekly |volume=49 |issue=30 |pages=200–202 |issn=0012-9976}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Public Policy University in India {{!}} JSGP {{!}} JGU |url=https://jgu.edu.in/jsgp/admissions/ma-public-policy#:~:text=As%20the%20first%20public%20policy,applied%20to%20solve%20policy%20problems. |access-date=2025-06-02 |website=jgu.edu.in}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://tiss.ac.in/view/9/employee/aseem-prakash/ Faculty profile at TISS]
* [https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?hl=en&user=uB-G_coAAAAJ Google Scholar profile]
* [https://en.unesco.org/inclusivepolicylab/users/aseem-prakash UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab profile]

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