Education
Receiving his Doctor of Philosophy from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1990, he taught at Harvard from 1989 to 1998 and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor from 2001 to 2008.
Receiving his Doctor of Philosophy from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1990, he taught at Harvard from 1989 to 1998 and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor from 2001 to 2008.
He is Sol Goldman Professor of Political Science and International Studies and Social Sciences, and the Director of the Brown-India Initiative at Brown University where he is affiliated with the Watson Institute. He also served on the Millennium Task Force on Poverty for United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan from 2002 to 2005. He has been a consultant to the World Bank and to the United Nations World Development program
Indian edition published by Foundation (Delhi) in 1996.
In 2008 he won the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Carnegie Scholar awards. Additionally, he won the Gregory Luebbert Prize for best book in Comparative Politics in 2003 and the Daniel Lerner Prize for best Doctor of Philosophy dissertation in Political Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1990. Winner of the Daniel Lerner Prize in its Doctor of Philosophy dissertation form, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990. Battles Half Won: India"s Improbable Democracy.