Social Sciences

Professor Neelanjan Sircar was a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi and an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Ashoka University. His work has focused on party and electoral behaviour, welfare delivery, urbanisation, as well as environmental and health policy. He has also worked with Andhra Pradesh and Punjab governments to study issues ranging from health policy to welfare benefits. Professor Sircar is a co-editor of the volume Colossus: Anatomy of Delhi, which seeks to understand the social, spatial, and structural inequalities in the National Capital Region (NCR) of Delhi.  He regularly publishes on Indian voting and party behaviour in academic journals and public media, including Contemporary South Asia, Economic and Political Weekly, Perspectives on Politics, Urbanisation, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Environmental Research Letters. Professor Sircar has a BA in Applied Mathematics and Economics from UC Berkeley and a PhD in Political Science from Columbia University in 2014.