Jayant Lele
Jayant Lele
Queen's University
Kingston, Canada.
Dr. Jayant Lele is Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Political Studies, Sociology and Global Development Studies at Queen's University at Kingston in Canada. He has taught courses on Critical Social Theory, Comparative Politics of Developing Societies and Political Sociology. After post-graduate education from Poona University he was awarded a doctoral studies fellowship by the Ford Foundation and a research fellowship by the American Institute of Indian Studies. He holds a Ph.D. in Development Sociology from Cornell University. He has served as the Head of the Sociology Department, and as the Coordinator and Chair of the Programme for Study in National and International Development. He was also the founder coordinator of the Department of Global Development Studies at Queen's University.
He was a Visiting Professor at the Centre for International Studies, Cornell University and at the Department of Politics of Poona University and a Fellow of the Indian Council of Social Science Research. He served as the President of the Canadian Association of South Asian Studies and as the Secretary Treasurer of the Asian Studies Association of Canada. He was the Resident Director of the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute in New Delhi in 1981-82 and was its President between 1996 and 1998. He was awarded senior faculty fellowships of the Institute in 1981-82 for the study of the social history of Maharashtra and in 1988-89 for the study of Language and Society in South Asia.
Professor Lele served as member of the Disability Subcommittee of the United Nations Regional Interorganizational Committee for Asia Pacific (RICAP) in the 1990s.
Professor Lele’s recent research includes a study of colonial and post-colonial analyses of image worship in India, the political economy of India. He is currently (2015-16) working on the project “Traditions of Modernity: India and the West”.
Professor Lele's research interests include studies of rural and national politics in India, party politics in Canada, evaluation of public policy processes and community-based programmes, critical reinterpretation of the modernity of tradition as well as the political economy of India, Southeast Asia, and Canada. He is the author, coauthor or editor of a number of articles and books including, Tradition and Modernity in Bhakti Movements, Elite Pluralism and Class Rule, Language and Society, State and Society in India, Explorations in Indian Sociolinguistics, Hindutva: The Emergence of the Right, Unravelling the Asian Miracle, Asia: Who Pays for Growth?, Globalization and Civil Society in Asia (Palgrave 2004) and Democratic Transitions and Social Movements in Asia (Palgrave 2004). Some Landmarks in the History of Ideas (Vidya Bhavan Society and Azim Premji University 2011).
Queen's University
Kingston, Canada.
Dr. Jayant Lele is Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Political Studies, Sociology and Global Development Studies at Queen's University at Kingston in Canada. He has taught courses on Critical Social Theory, Comparative Politics of Developing Societies and Political Sociology. After post-graduate education from Poona University he was awarded a doctoral studies fellowship by the Ford Foundation and a research fellowship by the American Institute of Indian Studies. He holds a Ph.D. in Development Sociology from Cornell University. He has served as the Head of the Sociology Department, and as the Coordinator and Chair of the Programme for Study in National and International Development. He was also the founder coordinator of the Department of Global Development Studies at Queen's University.
He was a Visiting Professor at the Centre for International Studies, Cornell University and at the Department of Politics of Poona University and a Fellow of the Indian Council of Social Science Research. He served as the President of the Canadian Association of South Asian Studies and as the Secretary Treasurer of the Asian Studies Association of Canada. He was the Resident Director of the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute in New Delhi in 1981-82 and was its President between 1996 and 1998. He was awarded senior faculty fellowships of the Institute in 1981-82 for the study of the social history of Maharashtra and in 1988-89 for the study of Language and Society in South Asia.
Professor Lele served as member of the Disability Subcommittee of the United Nations Regional Interorganizational Committee for Asia Pacific (RICAP) in the 1990s.
Professor Lele’s recent research includes a study of colonial and post-colonial analyses of image worship in India, the political economy of India. He is currently (2015-16) working on the project “Traditions of Modernity: India and the West”.
Professor Lele's research interests include studies of rural and national politics in India, party politics in Canada, evaluation of public policy processes and community-based programmes, critical reinterpretation of the modernity of tradition as well as the political economy of India, Southeast Asia, and Canada. He is the author, coauthor or editor of a number of articles and books including, Tradition and Modernity in Bhakti Movements, Elite Pluralism and Class Rule, Language and Society, State and Society in India, Explorations in Indian Sociolinguistics, Hindutva: The Emergence of the Right, Unravelling the Asian Miracle, Asia: Who Pays for Growth?, Globalization and Civil Society in Asia (Palgrave 2004) and Democratic Transitions and Social Movements in Asia (Palgrave 2004). Some Landmarks in the History of Ideas (Vidya Bhavan Society and Azim Premji University 2011).
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Congress–Maratha dominance in
Maharashtra politics, in response
to Suhas Palshikar’s “Farewell
to Maratha Politics? Assembly
Election in Maharashtra” (EPW,
1 November 2014).
Congress–Maratha dominance in
Maharashtra politics, in response
to Suhas Palshikar’s “Farewell
to Maratha Politics? Assembly
Election in Maharashtra” (EPW,
1 November 2014).