Introduction
Professor Robin Jeffrey has published, with his colleague Assa Doron, Waste of a Nation: Garbage and Growth in India (Harvard University Press, 2018). He and Doron also co-authored The Great Indian Phone Book (London: C. Hurst/New York: Harvard University Press, 2013), which was published in India by Hachette under the title of Cell Phone Nation.
Professor Jeffrey co-edited with Ronojoy Sen and Pratima Singh, More than Maoism: Politics, Policies and Insurgencies in South Asia (New Delhi: Manohar, 2012), and co-edited with Ronojoy Sen, <em (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2014) and Media at Work in China and India (New Delhi: SAGE, 2015).
He has written about Kerala, Punjab and Indian media. A third edition of India’s Newspaper Revolution was published in 2010, and The Decline of Nair Dominance, first published in 1976, remains in print. He contributes to ISAS policy papers and reports.
He first lived in India as a school teacher in Chandigarh from 1967 to 1969 and has spent six years in India between 1967 and 2019. He completed a doctorate in Indian history at Sussex University in the United Kingdom in 1973, taught for 25 years in the Politics Program at La Trobe University in Melbourne, and worked twice at the Australian National University in Canberra.
Areas of Interest and Expertise
- Politics and Modern History
- Indian Telecommunications
- Islam in Contemporary South Asia
- Media Change in India and China
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isasrbj@nus.edu.sg |
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+65 6516 1381 |
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Visiting Research Professor |
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Email : |
isasrbj@nus.edu.sg |
DID : |
+65 6516 1381 |
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Designation
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Visiting Research Professor |
CONTRIBUTIONS
BOOKS
Media in Religion and Politics
16 January 2021
Waste of a Nation: Garbage and Growth in India
1 March 2018
Soundings and Echoes: Introduction
5 January 2016
Media At Work In China and India: Discovering and Dissecting
26 October 2015
6 December 2014
Modi’s sweeping victory in India
19 May 2014
