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B.A. (H) Political Science (Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi.);

M.A. ; M.Phil (Jawaharlal Nehru University);

D.Phil. (University of Oxford)

Dr. Ankita Pandey

Associate Professor

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Key Expertise Social movement politics in India, legal mobilisation, civil rights activism, citizenship as a practice and democratization of legal aid in India.

B.A. (H) Political Science (Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi.);

M.A. ; M.Phil (Jawaharlal Nehru University);

D.Phil. (University of Oxford)

Biography

Dr. Ankita Pandey is a political scientist. Her research focusses on citizenship in practice, civil society activism, social movements, and legal mobilisation. In addition to her core training in political science, she draws from the disciplines of history and anthropology to explore the deepening of democracy in India since the 1960s. She received her PhD from the University of Oxford where she was a Commonwealth Scholar.

She has taught at Lady Shri Ram College for Women, and at Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi. She was also a Guest Lecturer at the School of Global and Area Studies, University of Oxford.

She is currently working on a book manuscript that examines the practices of civil rights groups in India as a distinct form of collective action.

  • Themes in Indian Politics

  • Foundations of Politics

  • 2014 Commonwealth Scholarship, U.K. Government.

  • 2005 National Eligibility Test (NET), University Grants Commission, India.

  • 2005 Junior Research Fellowship, University Grants Commission, India, for M.Phil. research.

“Movement Allies: Towards an Analytical Re-classification of Civil Rights Groups in India”, Oxford Development Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/13600818.2021.1982885

“Left turn to Legalism: Fact-Finding Inquiries as Political Critique in 1970s India”, Third World Quarterly, DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2020.1851595

2020 Co-authored, “Parwaaz: Reflections of Independent Gender-based Activism in Campus”, in JNU Stories: The First Fifty Years, ed. by Neeladri Bhattacharya, Kunal Chakrabarti, S. Gunasekaran, Janaki Nair, Joy L. K. Pachuau, New Delhi, Aleph Book Company, 2020. pp 316-326.

“Sedition Cross-Examined: Understanding the Contradictions of India’s Democracy” book review of Sedition in Liberal Democracies by Anushka Singh. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 52, no 32, pp36-38.

Reframing Democracy and Agency in India: Interrogating Political Society’ (ed.) Ajay Gudavarthy and Politics of Post-Civil Society: Contemporary History of Political Movements in India (ed.) Ajay Gudavarthy in Studies in Indian Politics, vol. 2, Issue 1, pp.114-117.

“समकालीन भारत में नागरिकता का मानचित्र” [Hindi] Mapping Citizenship in Contemporary India, Pratimaan, vol. 1, issue 1, January-June, pp.285-302.

Religious Faith, Ideology and Citizenship: A View from Below by V. Geetha and Nalini Rajan, in The Book Review, vol. 38, no. 2-3, Feb., pp.22-25.

Accommodating Diversity: Ideas and Institutional Practices (ed.) by Gurpreet Mahajan in The Book Review, vol. 36, no. 6, June, Delhi, pp.7-9

Women Education and Politics: The Women’s Movement and Delhi’s Indraprastha College by Meena Bhargava and Kalyani Dutta in The Book Review, vol. 36, no. 6, June, pp.31-33.

2009 Civil Paths to Peace: Report on the Commonwealth Commission on Respect and Understanding” in Peace Prints: South Asian Journal of Peace Building, vol. 2, no. 1. http://wiscomp.org/peaceprints/2-1/2.1.9.pdf

2008 “Foregrounding Duties: Gandhi’s Notion of the Self and Citizen”, Gandhi Marg, vol. 30, no. 3, October-December, pp.371-89.
Email apandey1@jgu.edu.in
Key Expertise Social movement politics in India, legal mobilisation, civil rights activism, citizenship as a practice and democratization of legal aid in India.
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