SOAS, University of London (The School of Oriental and African Studies)

Overview

Name:

Miss Priyadarshini Singh

Email address:

priyadarshinipsingh@gmail.com

Thesis title:

Nation at the Grassroots: The meanings of Indian nationhood and the role of political practices in its institutionalisation

Year of Study:

4

Internal Supervisors

• Rochana Bajpai
• Matthew J Nelson

PhD Research

My research uses ethnographic approaches to understand the meanings of nation and national identity at the grass-root level in India, with particular focus on its intersection with politicised identities such as caste, religion and language and examines how bottom up political practices, both formal ones of voting, elections, campaigning and informal ones of deliberations, created by a top down institution of elections, institutionalises nationhood.  

PhD Publications

• Singh Priyadarshini, Review of Schooling Passions , by Veronique Benei, 2011, Journal of Conflict Transformation and Security, Vol. 1, No. 1, Available at http://cesran.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=269&Itemid=292&lang=en [accessed on May 27, 2011]
• Singh Priyadarshini, March 2011,“Reflections on the fieldwork of a Dancer-Political Sociologist”, Polyvocia, Vol. 3, Available at
  http://www.soas.ac.uk/research/rsp/rss/journalofgraduateresearch/edition-3/file67224.pdf [accessed on March 28, 2011]
• Singh, Priyadarshini, 2008, January 1, IDSA Strategic Comment, “Whose Arctic is it anyway”, Available at  http://www.idsa.in/idsastrategiccomments/WhoseArcticisitanyway_PSingh_010108 [accessed on June 13, 2010]
• Singh, Priyadarshini, 2007 “Ethanol and India’s Energy Security” Available at http://www.idsa.in/idsastrategiccomments/EthanolandIndiasEnergySecurity_PSingh_101207 [accessed on June 13, 2010]

PhD Conferences

• “Cosmopolitanism  and everyday narratives of National Identity” Tata Institute for Social Sciences, Mumbai, 2011
• “Searching the ‘National’ in everyday narratives of national identity”, SOAS Politics Department Seminar, 2011
• “Everyday Nationhood in India”, BASAS Annual Conference, 2011
• “Village as a Place in the everyday: An Ethnographic Study of Malarna in India”, UCL, London ‘Lost in Space’ Workshop, 2010

PhD Affiliations

• Co-Chair Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism
• British Association for South Asian Studies
• Teaching Assistant, Department of Politics, SOAS, Term 1