Centre for Alternative Studies in Social Sciences
Ashutosh Kumar is a Full Professor of History at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. He earned his PhD from the History Department of the University of Delhi, where he also taught from 2012 to 2014. He received prestigious SEPHIS Fellowship (South-South Exchange Programme for Research on the History of Development, a Government of Netherlands funded programme) during his PhD. He was fellow at the University of Leeds, United Kingdom; Yale University, USA; Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi; the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), New Delhi, and at Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla. He is president of Indian Association for South Asian Studies (IASAS) and President of Centre for Alternative Studies in Social Sciences, New Delhi.
