Vasundhara Sirnate

Vasundhara Sirnate is a political scientist, journalist and writer of India. She is one of the founding members of The Polis Project.[1] Her notable works include Passive Police: Institutional Learning Through Inquiry Commissions[2] and Kashmir's Crossroads.[3]

Vasundhara Sirnate
Chief Coordinator of Research at The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy
In office
2013 — 2017
Director of Research at The Polis Project
In office
November 2017 till today.
Personal details
Born (1979-09-17) 17 September 1979
Ambala Cantt, Haryana
EducationUniversity of California, Berkeley
Alma materLady Shri Ram College, Jawahar Lal Nehru University
OccupationPolitical Scientist, Journalist, Writer

Early life and education

Sirnate was born on 17 September 1979 in Ambala Cantt. She was schooled at Scindia Kanya Vidyalaya, Gwalior. She earned a B.A degree in journalism at Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi. Sirnate later went to Jawahar Lal Nehru University for M.A and M.Phil studies in political science. She studied there under the supervision of Professor Zoya Hasan. Sirnate went to University of California, Berkeley for her PhD studies.[4][5][6]

Career

Sirnate was Chief Coordinator of Research at The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy from 2013 to 2017.[6][7] The Polis Project was founded in February 2017, and incorporated in New York in January 2018. She joined it as the Director of Research in November 2017.[8][9][10][11][12]

Literary works

Few notable works of Sirnate are:[13][14][3][15]

  1. Good laws, bad implementation
  2. Students versus the State: The politics of uranium mining in Meghalaya
  3. Positionality, personal insecurity, and female empathy in security studies research[16]
  4. The RSS and Citizenship: The Construction of the Muslim Minority Identity in India'
  5. After Pulwama, the Indian Media Proves it is the BJP's Propaganda Machine
  6. Kashmir's Crossroads
  7. The Naxalites of India, Maoists of Nepal and Taliban of Pakistan: Ideological Insurgencies in South Asia[17]
  8. Demonstrating State-Memory: The Politics of 'Tribe' and India's Counterinsurgency Campaigns in Mizoram and Chhattisgarh
  9. Countering Insurgency: Strategies of the Indian State
  10. Passive Police: Institutional Learning Through Inquiry Commissions[2]

References
  1. "What are you supporting, NRI?". Retrieved 3 February 2020.
  2. "Passive Police: Institutional Learning Through Inquiry Commissions". The Hindu. The Hindu Center. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
  3. "Bibliography of Vasundhara Sirnate". scholar.google.co.in. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
  4. "Profile of Vasundhara Sirnate". ThePolisProject. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
  5. "Profile of Vasundhara Sirnate". The Hindu Center. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
  6. "Critiquing The Sync Between Democracy And Liberalism". TheBookReviewIndia. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
  7. "Kashmir's Crossroads Self Rule, Indian Integration, and Party Politics". ForeignAffairs.com. 15 April 2015. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
  8. "Bhagat Singh Thind's story is a harsh lesson for NRIs in US supporting CAA". ThePrint.in. 11 January 2020. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
  9. Vasundhara Sirnate (18 November 2014). "The soldier as state actor". TheHindu.com. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
  10. Sumit Chaturvedi (8 November 2019). "Crime and punishment". Himalmag.com. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
  11. "The Death Penalty Ordinance Has No Leg to Stand On". TheWire.in. 25 April 2018. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
  12. Suchitra Vijayan; Vasundhara Sirnate Drennan (5 March 2019). "After Pulwama, the Indian media proves it is the BJP's propaganda machine". WashingtonPost.com. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
  14. "Vasundhara Sirnate's research works". Research Gate. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
  15. "Vasundhara Sirnate". Epw.in. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
  16. Vasundhara Sirnate (14 April 2014). "Positionality, Personal Insecurity, and Female Empathy in Security Studies Research". Cambridge.org. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/S1049096514000286. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
  17. Jugdep S. Chima. Ethnic Subnationalist Insurgencies in South Asia: Identities, Interest and Challenges to State Authority.


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