B.A. (University of Delhi);
M.A. (Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi);
M.Sc. (Worcester College, Oxford);
Certificate in Economics and Business Journalism (Knight-Bagehot Fellow), Columbia University
Ph.D. (Geneva School of Diplomacy & International Relations)
Professor, Jindal School of International Affairs & Director, Jindal India Institute
| hindol.sengupta@jgu.edu.in | |
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| Key Expertise | Comparative analysis for different forms of statehood, post-Westphalian nation states, civilizational states, nuclear conflict and peacemaking, rising powers, multiculturalism, role of religion in international relations, and the impact of technology on notions of sovereignty. |
B.A. (University of Delhi);
M.A. (Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi);
M.Sc. (Worcester College, Oxford);
Certificate in Economics and Business Journalism (Knight-Bagehot Fellow), Columbia University
Ph.D. (Geneva School of Diplomacy & International Relations)
Dr. Hindol Sengupta is a multiple award-winning historian, and author of 12 acclaimed books. He has been a columnist for more than a decade and has been Vice President (Strategy and Research) at Invest India, the national investment promotion agency of the government of India under the Ministry of Commerce, and editor-at-large for the Indian edition of Fortune magazine.
His multidisciplinary work is fundamentally concerned with understanding India’s rise in the world, and the political, social and cultural underpinnings of the ‘act of rising’, and connects international relations, history, economics, trade, culture, and religion.
Dr. Sengupta has also been a Senior Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation, and at the Centre for Civil Society, and is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. He has also been an Australia India Youth Dialogue delegate, and co-founder of the Sweden South Asia Media Project at Lund University.
He was trained in international relations and history as a Chevening Scholar at Worcester College, Oxford, in business and finance at a Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia University, in mass communication at the Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, and in journalism at Delhi University. He has a doctorate in international relations from the Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations.
His columns have been published in Aspen Italia, The World Economic Forum Agenda, The Economic Times, The New Indian Express, Fortune India, India Today, The National, and FirstPost, among others.
He is a documentary filmmaker and his most recent documentary on the Indian diplomat-Buddhist monk Kushok Bakula Rinpoche was supported by the International Buddhist Confederation. In the United States, Dr. Sengupta is the only Indian ever to have won the Wilbur Award given by the Religion Communicators Council of America for promoting cross-cultural understanding, and to be shortlisted for the Hayek Prize given by the Manhattan Institute in memory of the Nobel laureate F. A. Hayek. In India, his work has won the Valley of Words prize, the Kalinga Literature Festival award and the PSF prize for public service through research and writing. He was selected by The Print in its listing of ‘The Next Generation of Indian Intellectuals’ in 2018.
He is a regular commentator in news channels in India and overseas, and has been news TV host for Bloomberg TV India, CNN-IBN, and CNBC-TV18.
At the Jindal Global University, Dr. Sengupta has additional responsibility as Director of the Jindal India Institute. His research interests are in the areas of comparative analysis for different forms of statehood, post-Westphalian nation states, civilizational states, nuclear conflict and peacemaking, multiculturalism, role of religion in international relations, and the impact of technology on notions of sovereignty.
2022: Kalinga Literature Festival prize for Best Biography for Sing, Dance and Pray
2019: The Valley of Words Prize for Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year for The Man Who Saved India
2018: Wilbur Award given by the Religion Communicators Council of America for Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year for Being Hindu
2015: Shortlisted for the Hayek Prize given by the Manhattan Institute in memory of the Nobel laureate economist Friedrich Hayek for Recasting India: How Entrepreneurship is Revolutionizing the World’s Largest Democracy
PSF Award for public service through writing and journalism
| hindol.sengupta@jgu.edu.in | |
| Key Expertise | Comparative analysis for different forms of statehood, post-Westphalian nation states, civilizational states, nuclear conflict and peacemaking, rising powers, multiculturalism, role of religion in international relations, and the impact of technology on notions of sovereignty. |