Thomas Blom Hansen
Background
Thomas Blom Hansen is a Danish anthropologist and leading contemporary commentator on religious and political violence in India. Out of this work came two books: The Saffron Wave. Democracy and Hindu Nationalism in Modern India (Princeton 1999) and Wages of Violence: Naming and Identity in Postcolonial Bombay (Princeton 2001). He is also engaged in a long term historical and ethnographic investigation of ‘vernacular urbanism’, that is, the dynamics of social segregation and community-based capitalism in the
Thomas Blom Hansen
Occupation
• Professor and Chair of Department of Anthropology, Stanford University
Qualification
• BA in Sociology
• MA in political theory from the University of Aalborg in Denmark
• Dr. Phil. (Habilitation in the social sciences) Roskilde University, Denmark
About: - Thomas Blom Hansen is a Danish anthropologist and leading contemporary commentator on religious and political violence in India. Out of this work came two books: The Saffron Wave. Democracy and Hindu Nationalism in Modern India (Princeton 1999) and Wages of Violence: Naming and Identity in Postcolonial Bombay (Princeton 2001). He is also engaged in a long term historical and ethnographic investigation of ‘vernacular urbanism’, that is, the dynamics of social segregation and community-based capitalism in the fast-growing provincial cities across South Asia. This person is connected with Ambedkar International Center