The Department of Political Science at Ashoka University aims to provide students with a conceptual foundation in the discipline, with an ability to critically analyse the omnipresence of the “political.” Through various courses we shall examine the nature, distribution and dynamics of power – both at the macro level of national and international politics and also at the micro level of the individual, family and community. We will map the ways in which knowledge systems and challenges to particular power relations have been constructed over specific vectors of time and space. We will study both Aristotle and Plato, Gandhi and Iqbal; complementing studies on comparative politics with an exploration of Indian national and state politics.
The Political Science major puts significant emphasis on methods learning, both quantitative and qualitative. Several courses teach how to do research, using data analysis, statistics or the ethnographic method, to explore the politics that surrounds us. Students are thus equipped with practical skills they can use outside the classroom.
The Department of Political Science encourages students to explore the connections between the major and other disciplines, by cross-listing courses across departments and by encouraging students to ask questions that are not constrained by disciplinary boundaries.
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Ashoka University
PhD in Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
MPhil in Development Studies, University of Cambridge
MA in Development Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences
BA (Honours) in Economics, St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University
Kaustav Chakrabarti
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Ashoka University
Ph.D. Brown University
Poulomi Chakrabarti
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Ashoka University
Ph.D. Brown University
Gopalkrishna Gandhi
Distinguished Professor of History and Politics, Ashoka University
Dipin Kaur
Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Ashoka University
Ph.D. Yale University
M.A.A Khan
Associate Professor of Political Science, Ashoka University
Ph.D. University of Cambridge
Malvika Maheshwari
Associate Professor of Political Science, Ashoka University
Ph.D. Sciences Po
Bastian Steuwer
Head of the Department, Political Science. Assistant Professor of Political Science, Ashoka University
Ph.D. London School of Economics
Bann Seng Tan
Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Ashoka University
Ph.D. City University New York (CUNY), Graduate Center
Vivek Yadav
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Ashoka University