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'''Sanjay Singh Yadav''', also often styled simply as Sanjay Yadav, is an Indian author. He has written ''The Environmental Crisis of Delhi'',<ref>Sanjay Yadav, The Environmental Crisis of Delhi, Gurgaon: Worldwide Books, c2011, {{ISBN|978 81 88054 03 9}}</ref> ''The Invasion of Delhi'',<ref>{{cite book | last=Yadav | first=Sanjay | title=The invasion of Delhi | publisher=Worldwide Books | location=Gurgaon | year=2008 | isbn=978-81-88054-00-8 | oclc=243845667 }}</ref> ''Portraits of India''<ref name=portraits>{{cite book|author=Sanjay Yadav|title=Portraits of India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2AvChepuXZgC|publisher=Worldwide Books|isbn=978-81-88054-01-5}}</ref> and a work in [[Hindi language|Hindi]], ''Dilli par Kabza''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Yadav|first=Sanjay|title=Dilli par Kabza|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FQxQc_Rty5gC|publisher=Worldwide Books|isbn=978-81-88054-02-2}}</ref> He is an internationally acclaimed lyricist – he has been a semi-finalist in the United Kingdom Song Writing Contest for two successive years, 2013 and 2014.<ref>{{cite web | title=Faridabad man's song makes it to UK song-writing contest | website=The Times of India | date=2013-08-29 | url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Faridabad-mans-song-makes-it-to-UK-song-writing-contest/articleshow/22140100.cms | access-date=2019-09-13}}</ref>{{failed verification|date=January 2014}}<ref name="HT">{{cite web |url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/Entertainment/Tabloid/The-man-whose-song-won-UK-over/Article1-1110435.aspx |title=Hindustan Times – Archive News |accessdate=2013-08-26 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130821230225/http://www.hindustantimes.com/Entertainment/Tabloid/The-man-whose-song-won-UK-over/Article1-1110435.aspx |archivedate=21 August 2013}}</ref><ref name="The Hindu">{{Cite news | url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/a-new-song/article5052362.ece | title=A new song| newspaper=The Hindu| date=23 August 2013| last1=Bhattacharya| first1=Budhaditya}}</ref><ref name="The Hindu 2">{{Cite news | url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/interview-with-sanjay-singh-yadav/article6771818.ece |title = Time to express|newspaper = The Hindu|date = 9 January 2015|last1 = Menon|first1 = K. S. Roshan}}</ref>

He has produced a documentary film entitled ''The Return of Raja Bhoj'' – in its Hindi version, ''Raja Bhoj Ki Wapsi''.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.firstpost.com/topic/person/a-raja-trailerthereturnofrajabhojwmv-video-aykU37JXedM-61846-4.html | title=A. Raja Photo Gallery: Latest Pictures, Best News Photos, Images about on A. Raja}}</ref> He has also been a contributor to various academic journals in different countries of the world.

Yadav is the Founder and President of the Trumpist Party of India for Equality and Identity.

== Education ==
Yadav’s education is spread over several different countries and several notable institutions. He attended [[Scindia School]], an elite boarding school in [[Gwalior]]. During 1967–68 he co-boarded with Mukesh Ambani at Siddharth House, a hostel of Scindia School.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web | url=https://sites.google.com/view/profile-sanjay-yadav/home |title = Profile: Sanjay Yadav}}</ref> Later he attended [[University of Cambridge]]. [[Clare Hall, Cambridge|Clare Hall]], a Cambridge college, elected him a life-member in 1991.<ref name="auto"/> He was also a fellow of [[Queen Elizabeth House]], [[University of Oxford]].<ref nam<ref name="auto"/> Yadav holds a doctorate in [[international politics]].<ref>http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/services/theses/Pages/list.aspx?NW_S=sanjay+singh+yadav</ref>

== Background ==
Yadav belongs to southern Haryana.<ref>http://twitter.com/YsSanjay {{Bare URL inline|date=December 2021}}</ref>{{Primary source inline|date=November 2020}} His grandfather was the nobleman Chaudhri Babu Ram Yadav, titled as ''Rao Sahib'' by Lord Willingdon, the Viceroy and Governor-General of India.<ref name="auto" /> His late father was one of the first members of the Indian Police Service from Haryana and served in Madhya Pradesh. One of his brothers, Ajay, was in the Indian Administrative Service, and another, Vijay, is in the Madhya Pradesh cadre of the Indian Police Service.

=== Work ===

Yadav founded the Trumpist Party of India for Equality and Identity on 17 January 2017, at an event widely covered by the international media.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.laprensa.hn/virales/1035888-410/un-escritor-indio-lanza-partido-pol%C3%ADtico-inspirado-en-trump |title = Un escritor indio lanza partido político inspirado en Trump}}</ref>
<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/delhi/a-political-party-in-india-on-trump-s-ideologies/story-rWqWGBgy42JqfrnPe3pgTP.html |title = A political party in India on Trump's ideologies?|date = 15 January 2017}}</ref>
<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/photos-global-reactions-donald-trumps-upcoming-inauguration-1602161 |title = Photos of global reactions to Donald Trump's upcoming inauguration|date = 20 January 2017}}</ref>
<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=2019-09-13|title=Launch of political party 'The Trumpist Party of India' in New Delhi|url=https://webgate.epa.eu/?16634349628007773501&MEDIANUMBER=53249449|website=epa european pressphoto agency b.v.}}</ref> The party seeks to build a collaborative partnership of the wealthy, on the one hand, and the excluded castes, on the other, through extensive rewards to both. It has been inspired by the life of Donald Trump.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sites.google.com/view/thetrumpistpartyofindia/home|title=thetrumpistpartyofindia}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=https://sites.google.com/view/tpihindi/home |title = Tpi-hindi}}</ref>

Yadav was a speaker at the Delhi Literature Festival 2017.<ref>http://delhiliteraturefestival.org/program.php</ref>

Yadav's work as an author has been the subject of feature-reports in three principal newspapers of India, i.e. ''[[The Times of India]]'', ''[[Hindustan Times]]'' and ''[[The Hindu]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Faridabad-mans-song-makes-it-to-UK-song-writing-contest/articleshow/22140100.cms|title=UK Song Writing Contest: Faridabad man's song makes it to UK song-writing contest|website=The Times of India}}</ref><ref name="HT" /><ref name="The Hindu" /> The United States' leading daily ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'' in its India e-edition, India RealTime, has also commented on him.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2012/03/30/delhi-journal-the-migrant-problem/|title=Delhi Journal: The Migrant 'Problem'|first=Tripti|last=Lahiri|date=30 March 2012}}</ref>

The ideas developed in Yadav's first book, ''The Invasion of Delhi'', have been the subject of critical press comment.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://64.74.118.150/blogs/mappings/archive/2008/11/14/outsiders-leave-delhi.aspx |title=Outsiders, leave Delhi ! |accessdate=2013-01-21 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20121129001638/http://64.74.118.150/blogs/mappings/archive/2008/11/14/outsiders-leave-delhi.aspx |archivedate=29 November 2012}}</ref> The author argues that the people of the Delhi-Yamuna basin constitute the [[indigenous people]] of the union territory of Delhi and their systematic exclusion from the city is fundamentally unfair. A population explosion caused by deliberately induced migration from far away is responsible for the [[environmental degradation]] of the entire middle [[Yamuna]] basin.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.drugtodayonline.com/medical-news/city/3433-check-immigration-to-save-delhis-environment.html | title=check immigration to save delhis environment | website=DrugTodayOnline}} {{dead link|date=May 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> It has been the subject of extensive international reporting.<ref>{{cite web |year=2010 | title=India's migrant workers face hostility in Mumbai | website=The Christian Science Monitor | url=https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2010/0409/India-s-migrant-workers-face-hostility-in-Mumbai | access-date=2019-09-13}}</ref> An international environment-related database, noting the relevance of the book to contemporary ecological issues, carries a biographical entry of the author of ''The Invasion of Delhi''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.carboncapturereport.org/cgi-bin/biodb?PROJID=9&mode=viewpersonname&name=sanjay_yadav |title=Archived copy |access-date=21 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201103110/http://www.carboncapturereport.org/cgi-bin/biodb?PROJID=9&mode=viewpersonname&name=sanjay_yadav |archive-date=1 February 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The ''Environmental Crisis of Delhi'' is Yadav's latest work. In this study the author categorises contemporary Delhi as an imperial city, similar to its Sultanate, Mogul and British predecessors when ethnic oligarchies with no local roots held sway. The singular objective of today's ruling oligarchies is the appropriation of the land of the middle Yamuna and its allocation to their kin from beyond the Delhi basin. This predatory design, argues Yadav, underlies the ecological threat confronting India's capital city.  The Indian edition of the ''Wall Street Journal'', one of the leading newspapers in the world, has also done an extensive report on the environment book.<ref>https://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2012/delhi-journal-the-migrant-problem/</ref>{{failed verification|date=January 2014}}

Yadav's third work, ''Portraits of India'', is a collection of poems. Extracts from this work received praise from [[Khushwant Singh]], India's premier writer.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/2004/20040501/windows/above.htm|title=The Tribune – Magazine section – Windows- This Above All|website=The Tribune}}</ref><ref>Also quoted in [[Khushwant Singh]]'s column ''[[With Malice Towards One and All]]'' in ''Hindustan Times'' (New Delhi), 29 January 2005.</ref>{{failed verification|date=January 2014}}
Writing in one of his regular weekly columns, Singh remarked that the couplet of one of the poems ''"[[sycophancy]] is a practice in which, modern-day India is very rich"'' was an accurate summation of the mental state of Indians and "deserved to be quoted".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1040501/asp/others/print.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2013-01-21 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025224432/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1040501/asp/others/print.html |archivedate=25 October 2012}} retrieved 27 July 2007</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.anureviews.com/portraits-of-india-by-sanjay-yadav/|title=Portraits of India by Sanjay Yadav – Book Review|first=Anuradha|last=Goyal|date=5 March 2012|website=Anu Reviews}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.indianbookreviews.com/2012/03/22/representing-india-in-poems/|title=Representing India in Poems | Book Recommendations}}</ref> Khushwant Singh's acclamation proved prophetic and Yadav has begun to win international endorsement and recognition. He secured the rank of a semi-finalist in the United Kingdom's Song Writing Contest 2013 for his submission 'Never Love a Woman'.Following this success two of India's premier newspapers, The Hindustan Times and the Hindu, did feature reports on Yadav.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.songwritingcontest.co.uk/2013-results.html|title=2013 Results|website=UK Songwriting Contest – Official}}</ref><ref name="HT" /><ref name="The Hindu" /> His entry for the 2014 contest, 'To None Ever Bound', also secured a semi-finals position.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.songwritingcontest.co.uk/2014-results.html|title=2014 Results|website=UK Songwriting Contest – Official}}</ref><ref name="The Hindu 2" />

Yadav’s foray into film-making has yielded two documentaries, ''The Return of Raja Bhoj'', and its Hindi version, ''Raja Bhoj Ki Wapasi''. These films develop themes first argued in his writings, i.e. issues of external hegemony and indigenous subjugation. The setting for the films is [[Bhopal]] and the context a proposal to rename the city as 'Bhojpal'. The film-maker shows how the wealth of the city, indeed the entire state, is in the hands of people from far away. Therefore, the proposal to rename the city would be merely cosmetic, unless accompanied by steps to give the local populations a greater share in the wealth of the city and the state.
Both, Yadav's writings and films, are informed by a passionate concern for subject indigenous populations held in bondage by imperial communities of outside provenance. It is wrong to see this interpretation as some sort of diatribe against migrants. Instead, these works should be seen as a depiction of India as a rigidly hierarchical quasi-imperial arrangement where small groups of people from the presidency towns of the Raj-era rule and dominate vast swathes of territory. This is what empires are about; and this is why, he implies, the vast majority of India's population lives in utter destitution. The challenge before India is the transition of this structure to a more democratic system of local control. Essentially, therefore, Yadav's work should be seen as a moving affirmation of the principles of democracy, freedom and liberty.

As a researcher Yadav was associated with Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford. He wrote largely on South Asia, especially [[Afghanistan]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.afec33.asso.fr/ftp/revue/pdf/n25.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2013-01-21 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120317075820/http://www.afec33.asso.fr/ftp/revue/pdf/n25.pdf |archivedate=17 March 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://southasiamonitor.org/detail.php?type=sl&nid=5174|title=South Asia Monitor, Window to South Asia – events, views, analyses, reports, papers}}</ref> where he has travelled in difficult and dangerous conditions of war. One of his papers on Afghanistan has become a landmark. Although written nearly 25 years ago, it continues to be cited and commented upon by strategists from Israel, the United Kingdom and USA.<ref>{{cite journal | doi = 10.1080/01402399408437558 | volume=17 | issue=3 | title=The international milieu and foreign military intervention: When and how much does the milieu matter? | journal=Journal of Strategic Studies | pages=139–179| year=1994 | last1=Vertzberger | first1=Yaacov Y.I. }} Written by an Israeli defence expert Yaacov Vertzberger, this paper is based largely on Yadav study.</ref><ref>http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a328179.pdf Work of a US Naval College expert Donald Boone, it draws largely from Yadav's work.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mpr.co.uk/scripts/sweb.dll/li_archive_item?method=GET&object=PDR_1990_XVI_11_MAY|title=The Lancaster Index|website=mpr.co.uk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mpr.co.uk/scripts/sweb.dll/li_archive_item?method=GET&object=CST_1989_8_03|title=The Lancaster Index|website=mpr.co.uk}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | title=Failed great power war and the Soviet retreat from Afghanistan |year=1989 | last=Yadav | first=Sanjay Singh | journal=Comparative Strategy | volume=8 | issue=3 | pages=353–368 | language=en | issn=0149-5933 | doi=10.1080/01495938908402788}}</ref><ref>http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA328179</ref> He contributed also to major Indian journals, The ''[[Illustrated Weekly of India]]''<ref>''A Troubled Legacy'', ''The Illustrated Weekly of India'', 22–28 April 1990.</ref> and ''[[The Hindu]]''.<ref>''Benazir Bhutto's Personality'', ''The Hindu'', 15 August 1989.</ref> Additionally he wrote on the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857]]<ref>{{cite journal | first1=Sanjay | jstor=41930953 | last1=Yadav | title=The Indian Mutiny of 1857: Why Britain Succeeded and the Rebels Failed | journal=Journal of Asian History | year=1994 | volume=28 | issue=2 | pages=136–153}}</ref> and this work was the subject of a lecture he delivered at University of Oxford’s South Asian Studies Centre at [[St Antony's College, Oxford|St Antony's College]].<ref>The Mutiny: A Re-Interpretation of British Success, lecture delivered on 18 February 1992, Centre for Indian Studies, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford; announced in [[Oxford University Gazette]], Monday 13 January 1992, supplement (2) to number 4237.</ref> Yadav has also made other seminar presentations at University of Oxford. One of these was on the [[anti-Mandal riots]] of the 1990s<ref>''The Mandal Milestone'', Contemporary South Asia Program, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, presentation made on 14 November 1991.</ref> and another on inter-ethnic relations and hierarchies in Delhi.<ref>''The Ethnic Composition of Delhi'', Contemporary South Asia Program, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, presentation made on 20 February 1992.</ref> The former has been praised and extensively quoted by former [[Harvard University|Harvard]] professor, senator and diplomat [[Daniel Patrick Moynihan]].<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/pandaemoniumethn00moyn| url-access=registration| page=[https://archive.org/details/pandaemoniumethn00moyn/page/202 202]|title = Pandaemonium: Ethnicity in International Politics| publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn = 978-0-19-827787-3|last1 = Moynihan|first1 = Daniel Patrick|year = 1993}}</ref><ref>The Mandal Milestone, Seminar presentation made at Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford on 14 November 1991. Cited extensively in [[Daniel Patrick Moynihan]], ''Pandaemonium: Ethnicity in International Politics'', New York: Oxford University Press, 1994; pp162-163, 202.</ref><ref>This has also been translated into German and published by the European Migration Centre. See ''Migration in die Region Delhi: Die Aussichten auf Stabilitat im Herzen Indiens'', ''Jahrbuch fur Vergleichende Sozialforschung 1992'', Berlin: Edition Parabolis, 1994. Written version of a seminar given at Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford on 20 February 1992.</ref>

== Awards ==
*Semi-Finalist in the UK Song Writing Contest 2013 and 2014
*Chevening Scholarship and Smuts stipend, University of Cambridge
*Charles Wallace Stipend, University of Oxford

== Bibliography ==
*''The Environmental Crisis of Delhi''
*''The Invasion of Delhi''
*''Portraits of India''
*''Dilli par Kabza''

== Documentary films ==
*''The Return of Raja Bhoj''
*''Raja Bhoj Ki Wapsi''

== References ==
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