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Prof. Deepanshu Mohan

Prof. Deepanshu Mohan

Professor of Economics and Dean, IDEAS,
Office of InterDiscplinary Studies,
Director, Centre for New Economics Studies,
Senior Research Fellow, International Institute of Higher Education (IIHED). 
Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities, O.P. Jindal Global University

B.A. Economics Fergusson College, (Pune);

Masters in Economic History (London School of Economics,
London)

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email: dmohan@jgu.edu.in

Deepanshu Mohan is Professor of Economics and Dean, IDEAS, Office of InterDiscplinary Studies, O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU), India. His teaching affiliation for taught courses in areas of comparative political economy, development studies, research methods, is with the Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities at the University (JGU), where he is also Director, Centre for New Economics Studies (CNES), and Senior Research Fellow, International Institute of Higher Education (IIHED). 

Prior to visiting Oxford University this Fall as a Visiting Fellow at the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Prof. Mohan has been a Visiting Professor to the South East Asia Centre (SEAC) at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and at Birkbeck College’s Faculty of Social Sciences where he is also been affiliated as an Honorary Research Fellow since 2022. 

He has previously held visiting assignments, professorships and positions with: University of Ottawa (School of International Development, Canada); FGV (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); Carleton University (Department of Economics, Canada); Stellenbosch University (School of Public Leadership, South Africa); CamEd Business School (Cambodia), to name a few. 

His research work and published research broadly intersects areas of development studies, urban studies, comparative political economy, economic anthropology, public law, comparative economic thought. He is published with: Routledge, Taylor and Francis (London and New York); Elsevier; Oxford University Press (OUP) London; Cambridge University Press; NUS Singapore; Brill; Palgrave MacMillan, Springer Nature, to name a few. 

His last book, Strongmen Saviours: Political Economy of Populism in India, Turkey, Russia, and Brazil,was published by Routledge (London and New York).  His two recent co-authored edited books, Vulnerable Communities in Neoliberal India: Perspectives from a Feminist Ethnographic Approach and Crisis Narratives: Pan-India Stories of Informal Workers During Covid 19 Pandemic  are now out. He writes frequently for news platforms like Frontline Hindu, The Wire, Scroll.in, BloombergQuint, Deccan Herald, Mint etc. in India. Details of his other academic publications, journal articles, research profile are accessible from here.

Book:

Book Chapters:

  • Mohan, Deepanshu et al. (2022). Labor Markets of India During a Pandemic: Observations from an Ethnographic Survey In Cities of Lucknow (UP) and Pune (Maharashtra) of Daily Wage Workers Across Mazdoor Mandis , Social and Economic Transitions in China and India, Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore.
  • Mohan Deepanshu, Sakshi Chindaliya, Siddharth G, Jignesh Mistry. Post-Face. Voices from the Andolan: Interview with Union Leaders and Activists. Social Movement and Transformative Dissent, Routledge. Forthcoming, 2023.
  • Mohan, Deepanshu. 2021-22. Governing Dynamics of a Changing Global Economic Order: Case for Developing Economies, Handbook of BRICS and Emerging Economies, co-edited by Prathivadi Anand. Oxford: Oxford University Press (OUP), UK.


Journal Articles & Working Papers

Economic History, Political Economy of Late Development, International Economics.