Jyotirmaya Sharma
Jyotirmaya Sharma (Telugu: జ్యోతిర్మయ శర్మ) is a public intellectual, political philosopher and professor of political science at the Department of Political Science at the University of Hyderabad, Telangana, in India. Between September 2015 and June 2016, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, Austria. Earlier, between January–June 2012, he was a Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study and Fellow of the Lichtenberg-Kolleg at the Georg-August-Universität in Göttingen, Germany, in 2012-13. He was also a member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the French Network of Institutes for Advanced Study, RFIEA between 2013 and 2016. In January 2015, he was appointed member of the scientific advisory board of the Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Göttingen. His recent publications include, Cosmic Love and Human Apathy: Swami Vivekananda and the Restatement of Religion, HaperCollins, New Delhi, 2013, A Restatement of Religion: Swami Vivekananda and the Making of Hindu Nationalism, Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2013, Hindutva: Exploring the Idea of Hindu Nationalism (HarperCollins, 2015); this book has been translated in Indian languages) and Terrifying Vision: M.S. Golwalkar, the RSS and India (Penguin/Viking, 2007; this book has been translated into Malayalam). An edited volume titled Grounding Morality: Freedom, Knowledge and the Plurality of Cultures (co-edited with A. Raghuramaraju) was published by Routledge (2010). 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 Ruprecht-Karls University at Heidelberg in 2005. The International House, Japan, awarded him the Asia Leadership Fellow Programme fellowship for 2008. Sharma also held senior editorial positions at the Times of India and The Hindu between 1998-2006.
Major works
Books - Hindutva: Exploring the Idea of Hindu Nationalism, HaperCollins, New Delhi, 2015. - A Restatement of Religion: Swami Vivekananda and the Making of Hindu Nationalism, Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2013. - Cosmic Love and Human Apathy: Swami Vivekananda's Restatement of Religion, HarperCollins, New Delhi, 2013. - Grounding Morality: Freedom, Knowledge, and the Plurality of Cultures, co-edited with A. Raghuramaraju, Routledge, New Delhi & London, 2010. - Terrifying Vision: M.S. Golwalkar, the RSS and India, Penguin/Viking, February 2007. - The Malayalam translation of Terrifying Vision was published by Penguin India and Malayalam Manorama in 2008. - Hindutva: Exploring the Idea of Hindu Nationalism, Penguin/Viking, 2003. Second edition of the book with a new Introduction and an additional chapter was published in November 2011(This volume was listed by The Economist as one of the ten sources on India in its survey of India in February 2004). - The Malayalam translation of Hindutva was published in 2004, the Marathi translation in 2007, and the Telugu translation in 2009.
Recent Publications in Edited Volumes and Journals
- `Dissecting Hindutva: A conversation with Jyotirmaya Sharma’, Global History Forum, June 30, 2017. - `Violence Affirmed: V.D. Savarkar and the Fear of Non-Violence in Hindu Nationalist Thought', in Rethinking the Social Sciences: From Local Universalisms to Global Engagements, Yehuda Elkana, Shalini Randeria and Björn Wittrock (eds.), Brill, 2018. -`My Religion is Less Violent than Yours’: Myth, History and the Representation of Violence’, in Partition: The Long Shadow, edited by Urvashi Butalia, Zubaan Books, New Delhi, 2015. - `Political Hinduism: India’s Disenchanted Religion’ in Religion Dispatches, Online journal of the University of Southern California, January 16, 2014. - `The Foul Link of Complicity’, Seminar, No. 653, January 2014. - `Writing Vivekananda’, IIC Quarterly, Volume 40, No. 1, Summer 2013. - `Digesting the Other: Hindu Nationalism and the Muslims of India’, Exemplar: The Journal of South Asian Studies, Volume 1, Number 1, Spring 2012. - `Imagining Incommensurables: The Hindu Rashtra and the Indian Nation’, in Jyotirmaya Sharma, A. Raghuramaraju (eds.), Grounding Morality: Freedom, Knowledge, and the Plurality of Cultures, Routledge, 2010. - `Digesting the `Other’: Hindu Nationalism and the Muslims in India’, Political Hinduism, Vinay Lal (ed.), Oxford University Press, 2009. - `Someone Else’s Memory: The Home and the World in Nirmal Verma’s Vey Din’, Le Simplegadi, 2009, 7, 7:24-39. - `A Gandhian Moment’, IIC Quarterly, Autumn 2009. - `Emancipation Without Utopias’, Seminar 601, September 2009. - `A Gandhian Moment in South Hebron’, India & Global Affairs, October–December, 2008. - `History as Revenge and Retaliation: Rereading Savarkar’s The War of Independence of 1857’, in 1857: Essay From Economic And Political Weekly, Orient Longman in association Sameeksha Trust, 2008. - `Shahar Baaki Hai, Mohabbat Ka Nishan Baaki Hai’ Seminar, 585, May 2008.