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B.A. (University of Delhi);

M.A. (Jawaharlal Nehru University);

M.Phil. (Ambedkar University); Ph.D. (University of Cambridge)

Dr. Rashmi Singh

Assistant Professor

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Key Expertise Modern Indian politics Gender and politics Elections and organisational politics.

B.A. (University of Delhi);

M.A. (Jawaharlal Nehru University);

M.Phil. (Ambedkar University); Ph.D. (University of Cambridge)

Biography

Dr. Rashmi Singh is a political sociologist who researches Indian politics, electioneering and political candidacy. She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2021 and has taught inter-disciplinary courses on contemporary Indian politics and elections, social movements and organisational politics, and gender and party politics.

Her forthcoming work uses a qualitative approach to examine the gendered nature of Indian electoral politics and examines the complexity of political representation and party nomination practices in Indian politics. Previous to Jindal, she was a Junior Research Fellow at the Merian-Tagore International Centre of Advanced Studies in New Delhi.

  • Foundations of Politics
  • Political Sociology
  • Indian Politics

 

• (Forthcoming) 2024. ‘Women in Indian Politics’ in Cambridge Companion to Indian Politics and Society, edited by Roy, Indrajit and Desai, Manali. Cambridge University Press, 2024. Chapter 5.

• Singh, Rashmi. Book Review of Strange Burdens: The Politics and Predicaments of Rahul Gandhi, by Sugata Srinivasaraju. Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 59, no. 25. 22 June, pp. 33-34.

• The 2024 general election: campaign strategies and prospects. The Probe: Caucus. https://theprobe20.wixsite.com/probe/post/the-2024-general-election-campaign-strategies-and-prospects. (April)

• Will women be a decisive force in the 2024 election? Heinrich Böll Stiftung. https://in.boell.org/en/women-2024-elections (April)

• ‘The Diminishing Middle: How Modi is restructuring the BJP’, Commentary/Politics, The Caravan Magazine: A Journal of Politics and Culture, New Delhi, India, https://caravanmagazine.in/politics/how-modi-restructuring-bjp (June)

• The Women’s Reservation Bill and its unsettled details. In The India Forum. https://www.theindiaforum.in/gender/womens-reservation-act-and-its-unsettled-details (December)

• Candidate selection in India: Municipal Elections and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, vol. 61, issue 1, 11 Feb, pp. 90-114.

• (Co-Authored with Manali Desai) Political Parties: Machines Politics and Clientelism’ in The New Handbook of Political Sociology, edited by Janoski, Mishra, Mudge and de Leon, Cambridge University Press, Chapter 18.

• Singh, Rashmi. Book Review of Democratic dynasties: state, party and family in contemporary Indian politics, ed. By Kanchan Chandra. Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, vol. 56, no. 18 Feb, pp. 259-261.

• Singh, Rashmi. Book Review of Mafia Raj: The rule of bosses in South Asia, by Lucia Michelutti, Ashraf Hoque, Nicolas Martin, David Picherit, Paul Rollier, Arild E. Ruud and Clarinda Still. Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, vol. 58, no. 2, 03 Mar, pp. 262-264.

Social Media, BJP 2.0 and the 2019 General Elections in India’, Asia Dialogue, University of Nottingham Asia Research Institute, http://theasiadialogue.com/
Email rsingh1@jgu.edu.in
Key Expertise Modern Indian politics Gender and politics Elections and organisational politics.
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