The Algebra of Warfare-Welfare A Long View of India's 2014 Election

Irfan Ahmad, Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Gottingen, Germany, Pralay Kanungo, ICCR Chair in Contemporary India Studies & Fellow, IIAS, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

Irfan Ahmad is Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Study of Religious & Ethnic Diversity, Gottingen, Germany. His most recent publication is Religion as Critique: Islamic Critical Thinking from Mecca to the Marketplace (University of North Carolina Press, 2017 and Oxford University Press, 2018). Before working as Associate Professor of Political Anthropology at ACU, Melbourne, he taught politics and anthropology at Monash University, (2009- 2013). He was the founding founding co-editor of Journal of Religious and Political Practice (2015- 2017). He has held visiting positions, inter alia, at Brown University, the USA; Kanungo, Pralay is Professor of Politics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India; ICCR Chair of Contemporary India Studies at Leiden University and Fellow at International Institute for Asian Studies, The Netherlands. He is Honorary Professor at Australian Catholic University, Melbourne and Guest Professor at Sichuan University, Chengdu, China. He was a

Visiting Professor at Maison des Sciences De L'Homme, Paris. Kanungo is the author of RSS's Tryst with Politics: From Hedgewar to Sudarshan (2002) and co-editor of The Politics of Ethnicity in India, Nepal and China (Primus, 2014). He was also the Principal Indian Investigator of Indian-European Social Sciences Research Networking Project focused on election studies.