Ganesh Gaigouria

Education

• PhD, Political Science, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (ongoing)
• M.Phil, Political Science, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, New Delhi (2018-21)
• MA, Political Science, Utkal University, Vani Vihar, Bhubaneswar (2016-18)
• B.A (Hons) Political Science, Rajendra (Auto) College, Balangir, Sambalpur University (2013-16)

Profile

Ganesh has previously worked as a Guest Faculty in the Non-Collegiate Women’s Education Board (NCWEB), University of Delhi. He is the founder of a student academic forum, Speaking from Margin. He loves to write opinion pieces in newspapers and blogs on the issues of society and politics with contemporary relevance.

Ganesh is a Doctoral Candidate at the Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His working PhD thesis title is “Emotions, Politics and Identity: Analysing Anger in Everyday Dalit Politics in Contemporary Uttar Pradesh”, which problematises the existing theoretical underpinnings of emotions and Dalit identity politics and discrimination through the empirically embedded fieldwork based on three events (violence and resistance) in three villages of UP. He holds an M.Phil degree from the Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, on the thesis titled “Politics of Recognition in Liberal Democracy: An Understanding of Epistemic Crisis of Dalit Bahujan Politics in India”, find out the reasons of the decline of the dominance of caste-based political parties and missing link of Dalit intellectual activism into it.

Research Interests

• Emotions and Politics
• Caste, Identity and Aesthetics
• Political Anthropology in India
• Discrimination and Public Law

Publications

• Gaigouria, G.(2025). ‘Begampura’ in the Ballads of Ambedkar Summer School. Economic & Political Weekly. Vol. 60, Issue No. 10, 08 Mar 2025, pp 73-74, ISSN (Print) – 0012-9976 | ISSN (Online) – 2349-8846 , https://www.epw.in/journal/2025/10/postscript/begampura-ballads-ambedkar-summer-school.html
• Gaigouria, G. (2024). Civic Virtue and Social Hurt: Why Emotions Matter for the Politics of Oppressed? Socio-Legal Review, National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, ISSN No.: 0973-5216 , https://www.sociolegalreview.com/post/civic-virtue-and-social-hurt-why-emotions-matter-for-the-politics-of-the oppressed#:~:text=When%20the%20civic%20virtue%20of,like%20anger%2C%20hope%20and%20desire.
• Gaigouria, G. (2023) Book Review: Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd & Karthik Raja Karuppusamy, The Shudras Vision for a New Path (Rethinking India Series 5). Penguin Random House, Vintage Books, 2021, 233 pp., `699. e-ISBN: 978-9-390-91424-1. Contemporary Voice of Dalit, Sage, PP: 1–3 DOI: 10.1177/2455328X231198713, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2455328X231198713
• Gaigouria, G. (2022). From Home to Asylum (Deportation): The Refugee Journey. Economic & Political Weekly. Vol. 57, Issue No. 37, 10 Sep, 2022. pp 63-64. ISSN (Print) – 0012-9976 | ISSN (Online) – 2349-8846 , https://www.epw.in/journal/2022/37/postscript/home-asylum-or-deportation.html
• Gaigouria, G. (2025). In Odisha, push for Koshal statehood picks up pace again. Scroll. 16 April. https://scroll.in/article/1081127/in-odisha-push-for-koshal-statehood-picks-up-pace-again
• Gaigouria, G. (2024). Three Reasons Why Naveen Pattnaik Lost Odisha. The Indian Express, 14 June. https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/naveen-patnaik-odisha-loss-9393164/
• Gaigouria, G. (2025). Caste Enumeration and Social Justice (Jatiganana O Samajik Nyay). The Samaj, 4 May.
• Ganesh, G. (2025). Dilemma of Trust and Power on the Judiciary (Nyayapalika Upare Astha O Khyamatara Dwanda). The Samaj, 25 April.
• Ganesh, G. (2021). When will the Poor Get Justice (Garibanku Nyaya Miliba Kebe?). The Samaj, 09 November
• Ganesh, G. (2021). Caste-Based Reservation and Social Justice (Jatibhittika Saranksyna Byabastha o Samajaika Nyay. The Samaj