Ravi RanjanRavi Ranjan is a Political Science faculty at Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi. Till very recent, as a Fellow at Developing Countries Research Centre, University of Delhi, he has coordinated many research projects, suported by UGC, London School of Economics and Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. He is also a Member of the Advisory Committee for the Indian Council of Social Science (ICSSR, New Delhi), Commissioned State Level Studies on “Educational Status of Schedule Castes: Attainments & Challenges in Delhi.” He is an executive member of the Indian Association for Asian & Pacific Studies and was an IUC-IIAS Associate at the Indian Institute of Advance Study, Shimla. He is a regular contributor to various Hindi and English newspapers that include Dainik Jagran, Amar Ujjala and the Hindustan Times. He recently published chapters in the book edited by Paul Wallace titled India’s 2014 Elections. He has also contributed research papers to peer-reviewed, referred academic and research journals like Gandhi Marg and Social Action. He has also presented papers at national and international seminars in India and abroad. Read More Read Less