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PhD, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

MPhil, Ambedkar University, New Delhi

MA, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

BA, Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi

Prof. (Dr.) Rashmi Singh

Assistant Professor

Email rsingh1@jgu.edu.in
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Key Expertise Modern Indian politics Gender and politics Elections and organisational politics.

PhD, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

MPhil, Ambedkar University, New Delhi

MA, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

BA, Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi

Biography

Dr. Rashmi Singh is a political sociologist who researches Indian politics, electioneering and political candidacy. She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2021 and has taught inter-disciplinary courses on contemporary Indian politics and elections, social movements and organisational politics, and gender and party politics.

Her forthcoming work uses a qualitative approach to examine the gendered nature of Indian electoral politics and examines the complexity of political representation and party nomination practices in Indian politics. Previous to Jindal, she was a Junior Research Fellow at the Merian-Tagore International Centre of Advanced Studies in New Delhi.

  • Introduction to Political Theory
  • Indian Politics and Democracy
  • Political Processes in India
  • Political Sociology

‘Women in Indian Politics’ in Cambridge Companion to Indian Politics and Society, edited by Roy, Indrajit and Desai, Manali. Cambridge University Press, 2026.

Even As Ruling BJP Grows Politically Stronger, Question Marks On Indian Democracy. South Asia Monitor. https://southasiamonitor.org/perspective/even-ruling-bjp-grows-politically-stronger-question-marks-indian-democracy

‘Delhi Assembly Elections 2025: The Aam Aadmi Party Learns to Lose’. Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 60, no. 17. 26 April, pp. 27-30.

Book review of Marginalized, Mobilized, Incorporated: Women and Religious Nationalism in Indian Democracy, by Rina Verma Williams, Studies in Indian Politics.

‘General Elections 2024: The 2024 Election in Haryana’. Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 59, no. 41. 10 October, pp. 30-35.

Book Review of Strange Burdens: The Politics and Predicaments of Rahul Gandhi, by Sugata Srinivasaraju. Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 59, no. 25. 22 June, pp. 33-34.

Will women be a decisive force in the 2024 election? Heinrich Böll Stiftung. https://in.boell.org/en/women-2024-elections.

The 2024 general election: campaign strategies and prospects. The Probe: Caucus. https://theprobe20.wixsite.com/probe/post/the-2024-general-election-campaign-strategies-and-prospects.

The Women’s Reservation Bill and its unsettled details. In The India Forum. https://www.theindiaforum.in/gender/womens-reservation-act-and-its-unsettled-details.

‘Candidate selection in India: Municipal Elections and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’. Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, vol. 61, issue 1, 11 Feb, pp. 90-114. (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14662043.2023.2172792).

(Co-Authored with Manali Desai) ‘Political Parties: Machines Politics and Clientelism’ in The New Handbook of Political Sociology, edited by Janoski, Mishra, Mudge and de Leon, Cambridge University Press, 2020. Chapter 18.

Book Review of Mafia Raj: The rule of bosses in South Asia, by Lucia Michelutti, Ashraf Hoque, Nicolas Martin, David Picherit, Paul Rollier, Arild E. Ruud and Clarinda Still. Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, vol. 58, no. 2, 03 Mar, pp. 262-264.

‘The Diminishing Middle: How Modi is restructuring the BJP’, Commentary/Politics, The Caravan Magazine: A Journal of Politics and Culture, New Delhi, India, https://caravanmagazine.in/politics/how-modi-restructuring-bjp

‘Social Media, BJP 2.0 and the 2019 General Elections in India’, Asia Dialogue, University of Nottingham Asia Research Institute, http://theasiadialogue.com/
Email rsingh1@jgu.edu.in
Key Expertise Modern Indian politics Gender and politics Elections and organisational politics.