Dr. Rashmi Singh
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Dr. Rashmi Singh
Assistant Professor
B.A. (University of Delhi);
M.A. (Jawaharlal Nehru University);
M.Phil. (Ambedkar University); Ph.D. (University of Cambridge)
Dr. Rashmi Singh is a political sociologist who researches Indian politics, electioneering and political candidacy. She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2021 and has taught inter-disciplinary courses on contemporary Indian politics and elections, social movements and organisational politics, and gender and politics. Her forthcoming work uses a qualitative approach to examine the gendered nature of Indian electoral politics and examines the complexity of political representation and party nomination practices in political parties. Previous to Jindal, she was a Junior Research Fellow at the Merian-Tagore International Centre of Advanced Studies in New Delhi.
- 2020. (Co-Authored with Manali Desai) Political Parties: Machines Politics and Clientelism’ in The New Handbook of Political Sociology, edited by Janoski, Mishra, Mudge and de Leon, Cambridge University Press, 2020
Book reviews
- Singh, Rashmi. Review of Mafia Raj: The rule of bosses in South Asia, by Lucia Michelutti, Ashraf Hoque, Nicolas Martin, David Picherit, Paul Rollier, Arild E. Ruud and Clarinda Still. Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, vol. 58, no. 2.
- Singh, Rashmi. Review of Democratic Dynasties: State, Party and Family in Indian Politics, ed. by Kanchan Chandra. Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, vol. 56, no.2.
Media Articles
- ‘The Diminishing Middle: How Modi is restructuring the BJP’, Commentary/Politics, The Caravan Magazine: A Journal of Politics and Culture, New Delhi, India, https://caravanmagazine.in/politics/how-modi-restructuring-bjp (June).
2019 ‘Social Media, BJP 2.0 and the 2019 General Elections in India’, Asia Dialogue, University of Nottingham Asia Research Institute, http://theasiadialogue.com/ (April).