2026 Ashutosh Varshney: Political Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Political Science	29	1229	1113	617	537	84	6506

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Research.com Recognitions

2008 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Ashutosh Varshney is affiliated with Brown University in the United States. Their primary research focus lies within the Social Sciences, with substantial contributions to Political Science and International Relations, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Sociology and Political Science, Philosophy, and Visual Arts and Performing Arts.

The main topics covered in their research include:

South Asian Studies and Conflicts
Populism, Right-Wing Movements
Politics and Society in Latin America
Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
Migration, Refugees, and Integration
Turkey's Politics and Society
Indian History and Philosophy

Varshney has published articles in several recurrent academic venues such as:

Journal of democracy
Studies in Comparative International Development
Perspectives on Politics
American Journal of Sociology

Recent notable papers include:

"How India's Ruling Party Erodes Democracy" (2022), published in Journal of democracy
"Populism and Hindu Nationalism in India" (2021), published in Studies in Comparative International Development
"Populism and Nationalism: An Overview of Similarities and Differences" (2021), published in Studies in Comparative International Development
"Hindu Nationalism and the New Jim Crow" (2023), published in Journal of democracy
"The Rich Have Peers, the Poor Have Patrons: Engaging the State in a South Indian City" (2023), published in American Journal of Sociology

Frequent co-authors in their work include:

Siddharth Swaminathan
Abdülhamit Subaşı
Srikrishna Ayyangar
Connor Staggs
Patrick Heller

In 2008, Varshney was recognized as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Best Publications

Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India

Ashutosh Varshney

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Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life

Ashutosh Varshney

2269
Citations
Ethnic Conflict and Civil Society: India and Beyond

Ashutosh Varshney

825
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Democracy, Development, and the Countryside: Urban-Rural Struggles in India

Ashutosh Varshney

532
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Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict, and Rationality

Ashutosh Varshney

360
Citations
Contested meanings: India's national identity, Hindu nationalism, and the politics of anxiety

A. Varshney

281
Citations
Mass politics or elite politics? india's economic reforms in comparative perspective

Ashutosh Varshney

256
Citations
Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflict

Ashutosh Varshney

239
Citations
Caste and Entrepreneurship in India

Lakshmi Iyer;Tarun Khanna;Ashutosh Varshney

205
Citations
Is India Becoming More Democratic

Ashutosh Varshney

185
Citations
Patterns of Collective Violence in Indonesia (1990-2003)

Ashutosh Varshney

168
Citations
India, Pakistan, and Kashmir: Antinomies of Nationalism

Ashutosh Varshney

159
Citations
Why Democracy Survives

Ashutosh Varshney

127
Citations
India in the era of economic reforms

Jeffrey Sachs;Ashutosh Varshney;Nirupam Bajpai

112
Citations
India's Democratic Challenge

Ashutosh Varshney

107
Citations
Postmodernism, Civic Engagement, and Ethnic Conflict: A Passage to India

Ashutosh Varshney

97
Citations
Ethnic Diversity and Ethnic Strife. An Interdisciplinary Perspective

Ravi Kanbur;Prem Kumar Rajaram;Ashutosh Varshney

93
Citations
Creating datasets in information-poor environments : patterns of collective violence in Indonesia, 1990-2003

Ashutosh Varshney;Mohammad Zulfan Tadjoeddin;Rizal Panggabean

83
Citations
The Indian Paradox: Essays in Indian Politics

Myron Weiner

82
Citations
Why Have Poor Democracies Not Eliminated Poverty? A Suggestion

Ashutosh Varshney

69
Citations
Collective Violence in Indonesia

Ashutosh Varshney

47
Citations
WHEN LARGE CONFLICTS SUBSIDE: THE EBBS AND FLOWS OF VIOLENCE IN POST-SUHARTO INDONESIA

Patrick Barron;Sana Jaffrey;Ashutosh Varshney

39
Citations
Introduction: urban bias in perspective

Ashutosh Varshney

39
Citations
Modi Consolidates Power: Electoral Vibrancy, Mounting Liberal Deficits

Ashutosh Varshney

36
Citations
Hindu Nationalism in Power

Ashutosh Varshney

27
Citations
Battles Half Won

Sadiq Ahmed;Ashutosh Varshney

2
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The Foundations of Ethnic Politics: Separatism of States and Nations in Eurasia and the World. By Henry E. Hale. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 278p. $85.00 cloth, $27.00 paper.

Ashutosh Varshney

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Frequent Co-Authors

Ravi Kanbur Cornell University

Tarun Khanna Harvard University

Jeffrey D. Sachs Columbia University

Gabriel A. Almond Stanford University

External Links

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