Ananya Vajpeyi is a scholar and writer and works at the intersection of intellectual history, political theory, and critical philology. She is the author of Righteous Republic: The Political Foundations of Modern India published by Harvard University Press (2012), which won the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize (2011), the Crossword Award (2013), and the Tata First Book Prize (2013). In addition to her academic work, she writes widely on politics, arts and ideas for newspapers and magazines in India and abroad.
Research Consultant, The Nilgiri Archaeological Project, University of Ghent, Belgium:
