Badri Narayan is a Social Historian and Cultural Anthropologist and currently Professor at the G.B. Pant Social Science Institute, Allahabad. His wide ranging interests cover culture, memory and politics, contemporary histories, Ethnography of marginalized politics, social and anthropological history, Dalit and subaltern issues and Identity formation and the question of power. He has been a fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla (1998-99), and Visiting Fellow at the International Institute of Asian Studies, University of Leiden, The Netherlands (2002) and HGIS Fellow at the Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam (2001). He was a recipient of the Fulbright Senior Fellowship (September 2005-April 2006) and the Smuts Fellowship, University of Cambridge (February 2007 – October 2007). Besides having written a number of articles both in English and Hindi, he has recently authored ‘Republic of Hindutva’ (2021) by Penguin Random House; ‘Fractured Tales: Invisibles in Indian Democracy’, Oxford University Press, New Delhi. His other critically acclaimed books are Kashiram , by Penguin (2014) ; The Making of the Dalit Public in North India: Uttar Pradesh 1950-present by Oxford University Press (2011); Women Heroes and Dalit Assertion in North India, by Sage Publication, New Delhi 2006 ; Fascinating Hindutva – Saffron Politics and Dalit Mobilisation, by Sage Publication, New Delhi 2006.
Email: badrinarayan.gbpssi [at] gmail [dot] com
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