Jyotirmaya Sharma

Jyotirmaya Sharma is a public intellectual, Political Philosopher and professor of political science at the Department of Political Science at the University of Hyderabad, Telangana (India). Professor Sharma held senior editorial positions at the Times of India and The Hindu between 1998 - 2006. Between January-June 2012, he was a Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study. He is currently a Fellow of the Lichtenberg-Kolleg at the Georg-August-Universität in Göttingen, Germany. His new book titled Cosmic Love and Human Apathy: Swami Vivekananda’s Restatement of Religion has now been published to be released in January 2013 by HarperCollins. He has been nominated as a member of the Start-up Grant Review Panel of the European Research Council (ERC) for 2012. He has recently been invited to join the scientific advisory board of the Network of French Institutes for Advanced Study (Réseau français des instituts d’études avancées or RFIEA). He has been a fellow of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies and the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, and has lectured at the universities of Baroda, Hull, Oxford, and the St. Stephens College, Delhi. He was visiting professor in democratic theory at the South Asia Institute at RuprechtKarls University at Heidelberg in 2005. The International House, Japan, awarded him the Asia Leadership Fellow Programme fellowship for 2008.

Major Publications: 1. Hindutva: Exploring the Idea of Hindu Nationalism (Penguin/Viking, 2003/2011; this book has been translated in three other Indian languages) 2. Terrifying Vision: M.S. Golwalkar, the RSS and India (Penguin/Viking, 2007; this book has been translated into Malayalam). 3.Co-Edited with A. Raghuramraju Grounding Morality: Freedom, Knowledge and the Plurality of Cultures (co-edited with A. Raghuramaraju) was published by Routledge (2010).