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 colère de la déesse décapitée. Traditions, cultes et pouvoir dans le Sud de l'Inde; L'Inde fabuleuse; L'Inde. Désir de nation; and the editor of The Resources of History. Tradition, Narration and Nation in South Asia; and co-editor of Alterité et identiti. Ism et...See more

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 colère de la déesse décapitée. Traditions, cultes et pouvoir dans le Sud de l'Inde; L'Inde fabuleuse; L'Inde. Désir de nation; and the editor of The Resources of History. Tradition, Narration and Nation in South Asia; and co-editor of Alterité et identiti. Ism et christianisme en Inde; La possession en Asie du Sud; At Home in Diaspora. South Asian Intellectuals and the West See less