Jackie Assayag

Jackie Assayag is Director of Research at the CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research) and affiliated to EHESS, Paris. He has worked extensively on anthropology, sociology and politics in modern India. He is the author of La col?re de la d?esse d?capit?e. Traditions, cultes et pouvoir dans le Sud de l'Inde; L'Inde fabuleuse; L'Inde. D?sir de nation; and the editor of The Resources of History. Tradition, Narration and Nation in South Asia; and co-editor of Alterit? et identiti. Ism et christianisme en Inde; La possession en Asie du Sud; At Home in Diaspora. South Asian Intellectuals and the West