Amit Ahuja
Term
Professional affiliation
Expertise
Ethnic politics
Security
Political Mobilization
South Asia
Wilson Center Projects
Building National Armies in Multiethnic States
Full Biography
Dr. Amit Ahuja is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California at Santa Barbara. His research focuses on the processes of inclusion and exclusion in multiethnic societies. He has studied this within the context of ethnic parties and movements, military organization, intercaste marriage, and skin color preferences in South Asia.
Major Publications
Books
Internal Security in India: Violence, Order, and the State. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. (with Devesh Kapur)
Mobilizing the Marginalized: Ethnic Parties Without Ethnic Movements. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Winner of the New India Foundation Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Book Prize
Articles
“Preventive Repression: Protest Policing in New Delhi,” Journal of Urban Affairs, 2023. (with Rajkamal Singh and Rahul Hemrajani)