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'''Ananya Vajpeyi''' is an [[India]]n academic and writer. She is  Fellow at the [[Centre for the Study of Developing Societies]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ananya Vajpeyi|url=https://www.csds.in/ananya_vajpeyi|access-date=2020-06-23|website=www.csds.in}}</ref> She is the author of the award-winning book "''Righteous Republic: The Political foundations of Modern India''" published by the Harvard University Press.  She was born in 1972.
'''Ananya Vajpeyi''' is an Indian academic and writer. She is  Fellow at the [[Centre for the Study of Developing Societies]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ananya Vajpeyi|url=https://www.csds.in/ananya_vajpeyi|access-date=2020-06-23|website=www.csds.in}}</ref> She is the author of the award-winning book "''Righteous Republic: The Political foundations of Modern India''" published by the Harvard University Press.  She was born in 1962.


== Life and career ==
== Life and career ==
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Her book "''Righteous Republic"'' won the Crossword Award for Non-Fiction (2013), jointly with "''From the Ruins of Empire''" by [[Pankaj Mishra]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.news18.com/news/books/ravi-subramaniam-wins-his-third-crossword-book-award-in-popular-category-655150.html|title=Ravi Subramaniam wins his third Crossword Book award in popular category |date=9 December 2013|website=News18.com|publisher=News18.com|access-date=August 28, 2016}}</ref> It also won the Thomas J Wilson Memorial Prize from [[Harvard University Press]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/thiruvananthapuram/Gandhiji-Overshadowed-Ambedkar/2014/08/12/article2374538.ece|title=Gandhiji Overshadowed Ambedkar|last=Thomas|first=Pramod|date=August 12, 2014|website=The New Indian Express|publisher=The New Indian Express|access-date=August 28, 2016}}</ref> and the Tata First Book Award for Non-Fiction (2013).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.firstpost.com/living/author-interview-swaraj-was-a-quest-for-an-indian-self-says-ananya-vajpeyi-1289681.html|title=Author interview: 'Swaraj was a quest for an Indian self,' says Ananya Vajpeyi|last=Yasir|first=Sameer|date=December 16, 2013|website=FirstPost|publisher=Network 18 media|access-date=August 28, 2016}}</ref> It was also featured on the Books of the year 2012 list on ''[[The Guardian]]'' and ''[[The New Republic]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/nov/23/books-of-the-year-2012-authors-favourites|title=Books of the year 2012: authors choose their favourites|last=Guardian|first=The|date=23 November 2012|website=The Guardian|publisher=Guardian News and Media|access-date=August 28, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/111113/new-republic-editor-and-writer-picks-best-books-2012|title=New Republic Editor and Writer Picks: Best Books of 2012|last=Staff|first=The New Republic|date=16 December 2012|website=The New Republic|publisher=Hamilton Fish V|access-date=August 28, 2016}}</ref>
Her book "''Righteous Republic"'' won the Crossword Award for Non-Fiction (2013), jointly with "''From the Ruins of Empire''" by [[Pankaj Mishra]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.news18.com/news/books/ravi-subramaniam-wins-his-third-crossword-book-award-in-popular-category-655150.html|title=Ravi Subramaniam wins his third Crossword Book award in popular category |date=9 December 2013|website=News18.com|publisher=News18.com|access-date=August 28, 2016}}</ref> It also won the Thomas J Wilson Memorial Prize from [[Harvard University Press]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/thiruvananthapuram/Gandhiji-Overshadowed-Ambedkar/2014/08/12/article2374538.ece|title=Gandhiji Overshadowed Ambedkar|last=Thomas|first=Pramod|date=August 12, 2014|website=The New Indian Express|publisher=The New Indian Express|access-date=August 28, 2016}}</ref> and the Tata First Book Award for Non-Fiction (2013).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.firstpost.com/living/author-interview-swaraj-was-a-quest-for-an-indian-self-says-ananya-vajpeyi-1289681.html|title=Author interview: 'Swaraj was a quest for an Indian self,' says Ananya Vajpeyi|last=Yasir|first=Sameer|date=December 16, 2013|website=FirstPost|publisher=Network 18 media|access-date=August 28, 2016}}</ref> It was also featured on the Books of the year 2012 list on ''[[The Guardian]]'' and ''[[The New Republic]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/nov/23/books-of-the-year-2012-authors-favourites|title=Books of the year 2012: authors choose their favourites|last=Guardian|first=The|date=23 November 2012|website=The Guardian|publisher=Guardian News and Media|access-date=August 28, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/111113/new-republic-editor-and-writer-picks-best-books-2012|title=New Republic Editor and Writer Picks: Best Books of 2012|last=Staff|first=The New Republic|date=16 December 2012|website=The New Republic|publisher=Hamilton Fish V|access-date=August 28, 2016}}</ref>


She is the co-editor with [[Ramin Jahanbegloo]] of [[Ashis Nandy]]: A Life in Dissent (OUP, 2018)<ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-05-13|title=Book Review: Ashis Nandy: A Life in Dissent|url=https://www.financialexpress.com/lifestyle/book-review-ashis-nandy-a-life-in-dissent/1165106/|access-date=2020-06-23|website=The Financial Express|language=en-US}}</ref> and with Volker Kaul of Minorities and Populism: Critical Perspectives from South Asia and Europe (Springer, 2020).<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030340971|title=Minorities and Populism – Critical Perspectives from South Asia and Europe|date=2020|publisher=Springer International Publishing|isbn=978-3-030-34097-1|editor-last=Kaul|editor-first=Volker|series=Philosophy and Politics - Critical Explorations|language=en|editor-last2=Vajpeyi|editor-first2=Ananya}}</ref>  
She is the co-editor with [[Ramin Jahanbegloo]] of [[Ashis Nandy]]: A Life in Dissent (OUP, 2018)<ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-05-13|title=Book Review: Ashis Nandy: A Life in Dissent|url=https://www.financialexpress.com/lifestyle/book-review-ashis-nandy-a-life-in-dissent/1165106/|access-date=2020-06-23|website=The Financial Express|language=en-US}}</ref> and with Volker Kaul of Minorities and Populism: Critical Perspectives from South Asia and Europe (Springer, 2020).<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030340971|title=Minorities and Populism – Critical Perspectives from South Asia and Europe|date=2020|publisher=Springer International Publishing|isbn=978-3-030-34097-1|editor-last=Kaul|editor-first=Volker|series=Philosophy and Politics - Critical Explorations|language=en|editor-last2=Vajpeyi|editor-first2=Ananya}}</ref>


She writes regularly for [[The Hindu]] newspaper<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ananya Vajpeyi|url=https://www.thehindu.com/profile/contributor/Ananya-Vajpeyi-1415/|access-date=2020-06-23|website=The Hindu|language=en}}</ref> and [[Scroll.in]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ananya Vajpeyi {{!}} Scroll.in|url=https://scroll.in/author/12766|access-date=2020-06-23|website=Ananya Vajpeyi|language=en}}</ref> She has conceived, commissioned and guest edited several issues of Seminar magazine.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Seminar issues guest edited by Ananya Vajpeyi|url=https://www.csds.in/seminar-issues-guest-edited-by-ananya-vajpeyi|access-date=2020-06-23|website=www.csds.in}}</ref>  
She writes regularly for [[The Hindu]] newspaper<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ananya Vajpeyi|url=https://www.thehindu.com/profile/contributor/Ananya-Vajpeyi-1415/|access-date=2020-06-23|website=The Hindu|language=en}}</ref> and [[Scroll.in]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ananya Vajpeyi {{!}} Scroll.in|url=https://scroll.in/author/12766|access-date=2020-06-23|website=Ananya Vajpeyi|language=en}}</ref> She has conceived, commissioned and guest edited several issues of Seminar magazine.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Seminar issues guest edited by Ananya Vajpeyi|url=https://www.csds.in/seminar-issues-guest-edited-by-ananya-vajpeyi|access-date=2020-06-23|website=www.csds.in}}</ref>


== See also ==
== See also ==

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Ananya Vajpeyi is an Indian academic and writer. She is Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies.[1] She is the author of the award-winning book "Righteous Republic: The Political foundations of Modern India" published by the Harvard University Press. She was born in 1962.

Life and career[edit | edit source]

Vajpeyi is the daughter of Sahitya Akademi award-winning poet Kailash Vajpeyi.[2] She is married to Basharat Peer, an opinion editor with the New York Times.[3]

Vajpeyi received her MA at the Jawaharlal Nehru University,[4] M.Phil from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar,[5] and Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. She has taught at the University of Massachusetts[6] and Columbia University[7]

Works[edit | edit source]

Her book "Righteous Republic" won the Crossword Award for Non-Fiction (2013), jointly with "From the Ruins of Empire" by Pankaj Mishra.[8] It also won the Thomas J Wilson Memorial Prize from Harvard University Press[9] and the Tata First Book Award for Non-Fiction (2013).[10] It was also featured on the Books of the year 2012 list on The Guardian and The New Republic.[11][12]

She is the co-editor with Ramin Jahanbegloo of Ashis Nandy: A Life in Dissent (OUP, 2018)[13] and with Volker Kaul of Minorities and Populism: Critical Perspectives from South Asia and Europe (Springer, 2020).[14]

She writes regularly for The Hindu newspaper[15] and Scroll.in.[16] She has conceived, commissioned and guest edited several issues of Seminar magazine.[17]

See also[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ "Ananya Vajpeyi". www.csds.in. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  2. ↑ Gulati, Sumegha (2 April 2015). "Kailash Vajpeyi: A poet embraces his favourite subject – death". The Indian Express. Indian Express Group. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
  3. ↑ Peer, Basharat (2 March 2019). "Opinion | The Young Suicide Bomber Who Brought India and Pakistan to the Brink of War". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  4. ↑ Vajpeyi, Ananya (16 August 2014). "The story of my Sanskrit". The Hindu. N. Ram. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
  5. ↑ "List of Scholars". The Rhodes Project. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  6. ↑ Vajpeyi, Ananya (11 July 2010). "Peace in His Time". History Faculty Publication Series.
  7. ↑ "People | Ananya Vajpeyi | The Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University". heymancenter.org. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  8. ↑ "Ravi Subramaniam wins his third Crossword Book award in popular category". News18.com. News18.com. 9 December 2013. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
  9. ↑ Thomas, Pramod (12 August 2014). "Gandhiji Overshadowed Ambedkar". The New Indian Express. The New Indian Express. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
  10. ↑ Yasir, Sameer (16 December 2013). "Author interview: 'Swaraj was a quest for an Indian self,' says Ananya Vajpeyi". FirstPost. Network 18 media. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
  11. ↑ Guardian, The (23 November 2012). "Books of the year 2012: authors choose their favourites". The Guardian. Guardian News and Media. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
  12. ↑ Staff, The New Republic (16 December 2012). "New Republic Editor and Writer Picks: Best Books of 2012". The New Republic. Hamilton Fish V. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
  13. ↑ "Book Review: Ashis Nandy: A Life in Dissent". The Financial Express. 13 May 2018. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  14. ↑ Kaul, Volker; Vajpeyi, Ananya, eds. (2020). Minorities and Populism – Critical Perspectives from South Asia and Europe. Philosophy and Politics - Critical Explorations. Springer International Publishing. ISBN 978-3-030-34097-1.
  15. ↑ "Ananya Vajpeyi". The Hindu. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  16. ↑ "Ananya Vajpeyi | Scroll.in". Ananya Vajpeyi. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  17. ↑ "Seminar issues guest edited by Ananya Vajpeyi". www.csds.in. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
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