Christophe Jaffrelot was born on 12 February 1964 and is a French political scientist and Indologist specialising in South Asia, particularly India and Pakistan.
15 Facts About Christophe Jaffrelot
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Christophe Jaffrelot is a professor of South Asian politics and history the Centre d'etudes et de recherches internationales at Sciences Po, a professor of Indian Politics and Sociology at the King's India Institute, and a Research Director at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique.
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Christophe Jaffrelot is a graduate of the institut d'etudes politiques in Paris, the universite de Paris-I Pantheon-Sorbonne and of the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales.
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Christophe Jaffrelot has a doctorate of political science from Sciences Po in 1991 and has received a post-doctoral Habilitation degree.
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Christophe Jaffrelot is currently a senior research fellow at CNRS and a professor at Sciences Po.
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Christophe Jaffrelot is a visiting professor at the India Institute, King's College London, and has taught at Columbia University, Yale University, Johns Hopkins University, the Universite de Montreal, and as a Global Scholar at Princeton University.
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Christophe Jaffrelot was awarded the CNRS Bronze Medal in 1993, has served as editor or editor-in-chief of several scholarly journals on politics and sociology, and is a Permanent Consultant at the Direction de la Prospective of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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Christophe Jaffrelot is the president of the Political Science section of the French National Committee for Scientific Research since 2012.
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Christophe Jaffrelot's research is centred on South Asia, particularly India and Pakistan.
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Christophe Jaffrelot visited India when he was 20 and found the Indian society interesting in many different ways.
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Christophe Jaffrelot has been the editor-in-chief of Critique Internationale and serves on the editorial boards of Nations and Nationalism and International Political Sociology.
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Christophe Jaffrelot is on the editorial board of The Online Encyclopaedia of Mass Violence.
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Christophe Jaffrelot often writes columns for the Indian Express and The Caravan, and received the Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism.
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Christophe Jaffrelot was awarded the Brienne Prize for geopolitics by the Defense Ministry of France for his book Le Syndrome Pakistanais.
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Sathyamurthy, Christophe Jaffrelot's scholarship on Hindu nationalism is an important contribution with empirical depth and field research in Madhya Pradesh and the interviews of RSS members.