Steven Wilkinson Session Overview

STEVEN WILKINSON is the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and the Nilekani Professor of India and South Asian Studies and Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at Yale University. He has worked on political conflict in India, and his first book, Votes and Violence, won the 2005 Woodrow Wilson Award for the best book on Politics, Government, and International Affairs. He is also interested in corruption in politics, and co-edited the bookPatrons, Clients or Politics: Patterns of Political Accountability and Competition (with Herbert Kitschelt). Wilkinson’s most recent book is Army and Nation, which examines India’s success in managing the imbalanced colonial army it inherited in 1947. He is currently working with Saumitra Jha (Stanford GSB) on articles and a book on war and political change, and on a new book on India’s changing defense structure (with Sushant Singh).