HONOURS (Fellowships, medals, prizes, awards)

• Kroc Institute for Peace visiting Fellowship, University of Notre Dame from August 15, 2018 to June 30, 2019

• ‘Honorable Mention’ for the Mary Parker Follett Prize for Best Article, Politics and History Section, APSA 2019, for “Colonial Origins of Maoist Insurgency in India: Historical Indirect Rule Institutions and Civil War.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 62 (10): 2232–2274. (https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/ps-political-science-and-politics/article/2019-apsa-organized-section-awards/0AB2943B3604C9CAD07DB2B194BC3B4C/core-reader)

• Shastri Publication Grant, Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, Book manuscript, INR Rs.1,00,000; 2020-21; Awarded for Colonial Institutions and Civil War, Cambridge University Press, https://www.shastriinstitute.org/Grant-Results-2019-20-R2

RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS and GRANTS

•  Social Sciences & Humanities, University of Toronto Excellence Award (UTEA), $6000, June to Sept, 2021

  • Granted to UTM Student Mehvash Saiyed, for academic excellence. Mehvash will work for me as a RA on my SSHRC grant project, “State Motivations and Civil War Duration.”

• Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Insight Development Grant (IDG), 2020-23, $CDN $59,241, July 2020;   awarded for project on “State Motivations and Civil War Duration—Explaining sub-national variation in counter insurgency in India” Application ranked in 1st sextile.                                                                                                                                    

• SSHRC Institutional Grant (SIG) award, CDN $800, Fund #:  507972 , 2019-20

Event Name: American Political Science Association (APSA); Date: Aug 30,2019; Paper: “Colonial Legacies of anti-immigrant 'sons of the soil' conflict in India”,

•  UTM Research Scholars Activity Fund (RSAF) Fellowship, $10,000; January 2018; awarded for project on State Motivations and Civil War Duration

•  Connaught New Scholars Grant, University of Toronto, $10,000; 2015-17

• Dean’s Fund Grant, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto Mississauga, $10,000; 2015

•  George W. Leitner International and Comparative Political Economy Grant, Yale University, $2000              2010, 2012

•  National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (DDIG), $12,000; 2011-2012

  • To do field work and data analysis for last stages of dissertation project

• John F. Enders Summer Grant, dissertation fieldwork, Yale University, $2000; 2010

•  Peace Scholar dissertation grant, United States Institute for Peace (USIP), $20,000; 2008-9

  • Used for dissertation field work on Maoist insurgency in India

•  MacMillan Center dissertation field-work grant, Yale University, $12,000; 2008-9

  • Used for dissertation field work on Maoist insurgency in India

•  George W. Leitner pre-dissertation field-work grant, Yale University, $1000; 2007

•  Agrarian Studies pre-dissertation summer grant, Yale University, $1000; 2007

•  Graduate Student Fellowship, Dept of Political Science, Yale University; 2005-2012

•  Summer research collaboration grant, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan; 2004

•  Summer “Play for Peace” Fellowship, International Institute, University of Michigan, $4000; 2004

  • to evaluate the Play for Peace NGO in Hyderabad and Ahmedabad in India on their methods to teach inter-ethnic cooperation to Hindu and Muslim children and youth using Ashutosh Varshney’s theory of inter-ethnic civic networks and ethnic conflict