Ananya Vajpeyi

Ananya Vajpeyi is an Indian academic and writer. She is Associate Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies. She is the author of the award-winning book "Righteous Republic: The Political foundations of Modern India" published by the Harvard University Press.

Vajpeyi is the daughter of Sahitya Akademi award winning poet Kailash Vajpeyi. She is married to Basharat Peer, a Kashmiri writer, journalist, and Kashmiri separatist based in New York.

Vajpeyi received her MA at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, M.Phil from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. She has taught at the University of Massachusetts and Columbia University

Her book "Righteous Republic" won the Crossword Award for Non-Fiction (2013), jointly with "From the Ruins of Empire" by Pankaj Mishra. It also won the Thomas J Wilson Memorial Prize from Harvard University Press and the Tata First Book Award for Non-Fiction (2013). It was also featured on the Books of the year 2012 list on The Guardian and The New Republic.

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