Prof. Hindol Sengupta

Prof. (Dr.) Hindol Sengupta

Professor, Jindal School of International Affairs &
Director, Jindal India Institute

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)

: hindol.sengupta@jgu.edu.in

Biography

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.

Books and Book Chapters

Non-fiction:

2024

Life, Death and the Ashtavakra Gita, with Dr. Bibek Debroy, Grin

2023

Soul and Sword: The History of Political Hinduism, Viking, Penguin Random House India / Rowman and Littlefield

2021

Sing, Dance and Pray: The Life of Srila Prabhupada, Penguin Random House India

2018

The Man Who Saved India: Sardar Patel and his Idea of India, Viking/Penguin Random House

2017

The Modern Monk, Penguin Random House

2016

Who is Afraid of a Bit of Luxury, What’s Changed: 25 Years of Liberalized India, Random House India

2015

Being Hindu

[India: Penguin Random House; Rest of the World: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017]

2014

Recasting India: How Entrepreneurship is Revolutionizing the World’s Largest Democracy

[India: Penguin Random House; Rest of the World: Palgrave Macmillan/St. Martin’s Press]

2014

100 Things To Know and Debate Before You Vote, HarperCollins

2012

The Liberals, HarperCollins

2008

Ramp Up: The Business of Indian Fashion, Pearson PLC

2005

Indian Fashion, Pearson PLC

Fiction:

2017

The Sacred Sword, Penguin Random House

Research Papers

2021

BRICS in a world of moving supply chains, with Bibek Debroy, Chairman, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, published BRICS Summit 2021 report, India Exim Bank

Digital citizenship: Analysing the ‘managerial’ nature of the state-citizen digital interaction in India, with Ankita Sharma, senior researcher, Invest India, to be published in ‘Citizenship Laws, Policies, Rights, and Duties’, ed. Amir Ullah Khan, Centre for Development Policy and Practice and the US India Policy Institute

Harnessing the Power of Digitalization to Empower Women in India Post Covid 19 | with Guriya, researcher, Invest India, published in Breaking the Barriers: Pathways to Addressing Mental Health and Long Covid Impact in India White Paper Series, PATH & ETI

Jawaharlal Nehru and Vinayak Damodar Savarkar: ideological intersections in the origins of the idea of India, India Foundation, January 2021

2020

Constructive Nationalism: Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and his forgotten legacy, Understanding India and its Problems (Vol. II), Indian Council of Social Science Research

2019

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel: Life and Legacy, The Administrator (Journal of the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration), October 2019, Vol. 59, No. 2

Liberal Traditions in the History of Hinduism, How Liberal is India Today, Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom South Asia

2018

How Technology Changed Hindutva¸ Religion and Technology in India: Spaces, Practices and Authorities, eds. Knut A. Jacobsen and Kristina Myrvold, Routledge South Asian Religion Series

2016

Liberal Thought in India, Liberalism in India: Past, Present and Future, Centre for Civil Society and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom South Asia

Institutional Affiliations

World Economic Forum Young Global Leaders Forum
Knight-Bagehot Fellowship
Chevening Scholarship
Australia-India Youth Dialogue
Observer Research Foundation
Centre for Civil Society

News Articles

(Illustrative list).

Awards and Recognition

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

Research Interests

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.

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