Amit Ahuja

Amit Ahuja is an Associate Professor and Faculty-in-Residence at the Manzanita Village and San Rafael Residence Halls. His research focuses on the processes of inclusion and exclusion in multiethnic societies. He has studied this within the context of ethnic parties and movements, military organization, intercaste marriage, and skin color preferences in South Asia.

Professor Ahuja’s book, Mobilizing the Marginalized: Ethnic Parties without Ethnic Movements published by Oxford University Press was the winner of the 2020 New India Foundation Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Book Prize. He has coedited a volume with Devesh Kapur, Internal Security in India: Violence, Order, and the State published by Oxford University Press. He is currently working on a book-length project titled, Building National Armies in Multiethnic States. In 2022-23, he was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington DC. Professor Ahuja was awarded The Margret T. Getman Service to Students Award in 2015.

Professor Ahuja’s research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Institute of Indian Studies, the National Bureau of Asian Research and the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, the Hellman Family Foundation, the University of California at Santa Barbara, and the University of Michigan.

Recent and Forthcoming Publications:

• Amit Ahuja, “Violence of Competition, Erosion, and Domination in Polarized Democracies,” Journal of Democracy, forthcoming.
• Amit Ahuja, "Subaltern Mobilization in the Global South," Annual Review of Political Science 29 (June 2026): 391–411.
• Rajkamal Singh, Rahul Hemrajani, and Amit Ahuja, "Preventive Repression: Protest Policing in New Delhi," Journal of Urban Affairs 46, no. 8 (2024): 1595–1622.
• Amit Ahuja and Devesh Kapur, eds., Internal Security in India: Violence, Order, and the State (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023).
• Amit Ahuja and Srinath Raghavan, "Military in Internal Security," in Internal Security in India: Violence, Order, and the State, ed. Amit Ahuja and Devesh Kapur (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023), 269–291.
• Amit Ahuja and Rajkamal Singh, "Hierarchy in Protest," in Dalits in the New Millennium, ed. Sudha Pai, D. Shyam Babu, and Rahul Verma (New Delhi: Cambridge University Press, 2023), 127–149.