Narendra Subramanian, McGill University
Political Science
Professor
Montreal, Quebec
narendra.subramanian@mcgill.ca
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(514) 398-8586
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Bio/Research
Narendra Subramanian is Associate Professor of Political Science at McGill University. He studies the politics of ethnicity, nationalism, religion, gender and race, primarily in India. Subramanian’s work explores the role of identity politics in political mobilization, electoral competition, pub...
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Bio/Research
Narendra Subramanian is Associate Professor of Political Science at McGill University. He studies the politics of ethnicity, nationalism, religion, gender and race, primarily in India. Subramanian’s work explores the role of identity politics in political mobilization, electoral competition, public culture, and public policy; the functioning of democracies amidst social inequalities with long histories; and different ways in which policy-makers and citizens attempt to resolve the tensions between official secularism and the significant presence of religion in public life. His book, Ethnicity and Populist Mobilization: Political Parties, Citizens and Democracy in South India (Oxford University Press, 1999), explored how mobilization behind language and caste banners strengthened democracy in parts of India. He is completing a book manuscript titled Nation and Family: Cultural Pluralism, Gender Inequality and Personal Law in India, which examines the changes in the personal laws specific to religious group in postcolonial India. Another current project of his compares the changes in caste relations in India and race relations in the United States since the sustained enfranchisement of the lower castes and African-Americans, focusing on two regions of particularly high ascriptive inequalities and, until recently, agrarian bondage – the Kaveri delta in southern India and the Mississippi delta in the southern United States.
Subramanian received his B.A. in Public and International Affairs from Princeton University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Subramanian received his B.A. in Public and International Affairs from Princeton University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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