#  Deepika Padmanabhan 

Raphael Morrison Dorman Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Scholars Program

PhD, Department of Political Science, Yale University

 

 

 



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Deepika Padmanabhan holds a PhD in political science from Yale University and additional degrees from St. Xavier’s College, Johns Hopkins University, and New York University. She studies nationalism, language, and self-determination in South Asia.

**Research Interests:** Nationalism; nation building; subnationalism; language; self-determination; discrimination; state responsiveness; Indian politics; and South Asian politics.



 

 

 





 

 

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