Sumit Ganguly is a Senior Fellow and directs the Huntington Program on Strengthening US-India Relations at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is Distinguished Professor of Political Science Emeritus and the Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations Emeritus at Indiana University, Bloomington.A specialist on the contemporary politics of South Asia, he is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of 20 books on the region.Professor Ganguly is member of the Council on Foreign Relations (New York) and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He serves on the editorial boards of Asian Security, Current History, Journal of Democracy, Foreign Policy Analysis, The Nonproliferation Review, Pacific Affairs, International Security, and Small Wars & Insurgencies.His most recent book (edited with Eswaran Sridharan) is The Oxford Handbook of Indian Politics. Eswaran Sridharanis the Academic Director and Chief Executive, University of Pennsylvania Institute for the Advanced Study of India (UPIASI), Delhi. He is a political scientist whose published work covers political parties, party system change, coalition politics, political finance, the political economy of liberalization, the Indian middle classes, and international relations theory and India as an emerging power. He has held visiting appointments at the London School of Economics, the Institute of Developing Economies (Tokyo), University of California, Berkeley, and the Institute of South Asian Studies, Singapore. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of twelve books, with three forthcoming titles, and has published 96 academic articles. He is the Editor-in-Chief ofIndia Review, published by Taylor & Francis, UK,and is on the editorial advisory boards ofCommonwealth and Comparative Politics,International Studies Review, andMillenial Asia.
