Professor Suhas Palshikar

Professor Palshikar is the Chief Editor of the journal “Studies in Indian Politics”.  He was Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration till 2016. He was also a Chief Advisor, Political Science, for NCERT. He specializes in the areas of Political Process in India, Politics of Maharashtra, and Political Sociology of Democracy. Currently he is the Co-Director of Lokniti. 

Some of his much acclaimed works include, The Political culture of ‘New’ India: Some Contradictions, in Niraja Gopal Jayal (Ed.), Re-forming India: The Nation Today, Penguin, New Delhi, 2019, Indian Democracy, (OISI, OUP, New Delhi, 2017), Electoral Politics in India: Resurgence of Bharatiya Janata Party, Routledge, edited with Sanjay Kumar & Sanjay Lodha and Towards Hegemony: BJP Beyond Electoral Dominance, Economic & Political Weekly, 2018. He, along with Rajeshwari Deshpande is Series Editor for Sage Series on State Politics since the 1990s.