Vikas Tripathi

Assistant Professor

MA (JNU) MPhil (JNU) PhD (JNU)

Indian Politics

Department of Political Science
Gauhati University, Guwahati, 781014
Email: vikastripathi[at]gauhati[dot]ac[dot]in

 

Indian Foreign Policy: Themes and Issues, Sem III (Optional)

India and its Neighbors, Sem IV (Optional)

Regions in World Politics, Sem IV (Optional)

 

 

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS:

  • Review Article: ‘The Indian Parliament: A Democracy at Work,’ B L Shankar & Valerian Rodrigues, OUP, New Delhi, 2011, Anasakti Darshan, Vol.7 No.2 & Vol.8 No.1, July2011-June2012, Gandhi Smriti & Darshan Smriti, Ministry of Culture, Government of India, New Delhi. Pp.81-89

 

  •  ‘Making Sense of the House: Explaining The Decline of The Indian Parliament amidst Democratisation’ (co-authored),  Studies in Indian Politics, Vol. 1, No. 2, December 2013, ISSN- 2321-0230, (Sage and CSDS, New Delhi). Pp.153-178

http://inp.sagepub.com/content/1/2/153.abstract

 

  • ‘Understanding the Political Shift in Assam: Withering Congress Dominanace’ (co-authored), Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 50, No. 39, September 26, 2015, (Mumbai). Pp. 67-71

http://www.epw.in/journal/2015/39/notes/understanding-political-shift-assam.html

 

  • ‘Convergence of the ‘National and ‘State’ Level’: Explaining the BJP Victory in Madhya Pradesh’, Politico, Vol.4, No.2, 2015, (New Delhi). Pp. 29-38

 

  • ‘Rethinking ‘Responsibility’: An Analysis of the Government- Opposition Relation in the Indian Parliament’, Journal of Political Science, Vol.IX, January 2017, (Gauhati University Press, Guwahati) Pp. 100-113.

 

 

 

 

  • ‘National Narrative and Regional Subtext: Understanding the Rise of BJP in Assam (Co-authored) Studies in Indian Politics, Vol. 6, No. 1, June 2018, ISSN- 2321-0230, (Sage and CSDS, New Delhi). Pp.1-11

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2321023018762676

 

 

ARTICLES IN EDITED BOOKS:

  • ‘Responsibility’ and ‘Accountability’ : Confidence and No Confidence Motions in the Indian Parliament in Ajay Mehra ed. The Indian Parliament and Democratic Transformation, (pp.251-272). New York : Routledge Taylor & Francis. ISBN-9781138107113

 

BOOK REVIEWS:

 

  • The Indian Parliament: A Critical Appraisal, Sudha Pai & Avinash Kumar, Orient Blackswan, New Delhi, 2014.  ‘The Book Review’, VOLUME XXXIX NUMBER 3 March 2015. Pp.25-27.

http://www.thebookreviewindia.org/articles/archives-4412/2015/march/3/reviving-studies-of-public-institutions.html

 

NEWSPAPER CONTRIBUTIONS:

  • ‘The Decline of India’s Parliament’, Vikas Tripathi & Poonam K Borah, The Assam Tribune, September 12, 2012.
  • ‘Stability Amidst Change : Explaining the AAP Victory’, Sandhya Goswami & Vikas Tripathi, The Assam Tribune, February 12,2015.
  • Maha-Understanding: Assam Polls, 2016, Sandhya Goswami & Vikas Tripathi, The Assam Tribune, November26, 2015.
  •  How will history view Pranab Mukharjee-Narendra Modi Relationship? Daily O, August 4, 2017.

http://www.dailyo.in/politics/modi-president-pranab-mukherjee-gst/story/1/18773.html

             

 

 

 

·         Presented a paper titled “Crisis of Representation facing Equality and Inclusiveness in Contemporary India” in ‘International Seminar on Equality and Inclusiveness in Contemporary India: The Emerging Discourses’ held on 27th -28th January, 2010 at Department of Political Science, Banaras Hindu University.

·         Attended a 10 day workshop on the ‘Use of Quantitative Methods in Political Science’ held at Karnal from 24.05.12 to 02.06.12 organised by ICSSR-CSDS, New Delhi.

·         Presented a paper titled “The crisis of ‘representative politics’, Social Movements and a vision of ‘New Politics’” in ‘National Seminar on State, Social Movements and Democracy in Northeast India’ held from 27th February to 1st March, 2013 at Department of Political Science, Gauhati University.

·         Presented a paper titled “Debating the Decline: Coalition and the Indian Parliament” in ‘National Conference on Democracy, Development and Social Justice’ held from 21st March to 23rd March, 2013 at Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

·          Presented a paper titled “The Parliament and Government in India: Confidence and no-confidence motions amid Fragmentation” in International Conference on ‘The Indian Parliament and Democratic Transformation’ held from 9th April to 11th April, 2013 organised by India International Centre (New Delhi), Centre for Policy research (New Delhi) and Conrad Adenaeur Stiflung (Germany).

·         Presented a paper titled ‘Politics beyond the Local: Explaining the electoral stability in Sagar Vidhan Sabha Constituency, Madhya Pradesh’ in The Second Annual EECURI Networking Meeting (International Workshop) held from 3rd January- 4th January, 2014 organised at Bangalore.

·         Presented a paper titled , ‘Amidst the 'National' and 'State Level': Explaining the MP Lok  Sabha Election Results’ at Workshop on ‘The 2014 Lok Sabha Elections in Urban And Rural India’ 19-20, August 2014  organized by ICSSR, New Delhi.

·         Presented a paper titled, ‘The convergence of Poll Surveys and Ethnographic Analysis: Explaining the BJP victory in 2014 MP Lok Sabha Elections’ at EECURI WORKSHOP (9 January 2015) titled ‘Studying Elections: Reflections on Methods’ held in JNU, New Delhi

·         Presented a paper titled, ‘Regionalism or Nationalism? Understanding the Rise of BJP in Assam at the Workshop (12-13 July, 2016) titled ‘Identity Movements and Regionalism in the Context of India’s North East’, Organised by OKDISCD, Guwahati.

·         Participated in a three day Teachers Training Programme in International Humanitarian Law at the Department of Law, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong from the 25th-27th April 2017 in Shillong, organised by International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) .

 

·         Presented a paper titled, ‘Recasting the Jatiyanayak : Understanding the Rise of Sarbanada Sonowal’ at National Seminar on ‘State Level Leadership in India : Patterns, Trends, Challenges and Opportunities’ held in MPISSR, Ujjain on February 22-23, 2018.

 ·         Master of Philosophy in 2009, from the Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

·         M.A. in Political Science, 2006, from the Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

·         Qualified National Eligibility Test (UGC-NET) in June 2006.

·         Awarded Junior Research Fellowship (UGC-JRF) in June 2010.

·         B.A from Ewing Christian College, University of Allahabad in 2003.

·         Assistant Professor  (Ad-hoc) St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi (September 02, 2011 to January 01, 2012)

·         Assistant Professor  (Ad-hoc) Dyal Singh College, University of Delhi (January 18,2012 to 22.05.13)

·         Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Dr. H.S. Gour Central University, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh (05.06.13 to 16.06.14)

·         Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Gauhati University, Guwahati, Assam (19-06-14 onwards)

 

 Research Projects :

    ·      Member of India-Europe Research Networking project on ‘Explaining Qualitative and Quantitative Electoral Changes in Urban and Rural India’ (Joint collaboration between CERI, Paris; King’s India Institute, London; LSE, London ; CPS, JNU, New Delhi; BBAU, Lucknow; and Janagrah, Bangalore. 2013-2015)

 

 

Ongoing Research Activities

 

  • Political Leadership of Sarbananda Sonowal and the Office of Chief Minister in Assam
  • The Cabinet and the Parliament in India

 

 

              

 

  • Indian Politics

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