Books
Sajjanhar, Anuradha. 2024. The New Experts: Populist Elites and Technocratic Promises. NY/London: Cambridge University Press.
Reviewed: Perspectives on Politics, Economic and Political Weekly, India Forum, Middle East Monitor, New Books Network
Featured: The Indian Express, The Wire, The Hindu, The Syllabus, The Conversation (UK)
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Sajjanhar, Anuradha. 2025. The Stack and the State: India’s Digital Governance Model as Technopolitical Power (currently under review)
Sajjanhar, Anuradha. 2022. The Double-Sidedness of Hindutva: Inside the BJP’s think tanks. Journal of Political Ideologies, 28(1), 121–141.
Sajjanhar, Anuradha. 2021. The New Experts: Populism, Technocracy, and the Politics of Expertise in Contemporary India”. Journal of Contemporary Asia, 52(4), 653–677.
Sajjanhar, Anuradha. 2021. The Emergence of Political Consulting. Economic and Political Weekly 56(44).
Book Reviews
Sajjanhar, Anuradha. 2025. “The Unfinished Quest: India’s Search for Major Power Status from Nehru to Modi. By T.V. Paul.” Perspectives on Politics 23(1), 341–43.
Sajjanhar, Anuradha. 2025 “Response to T.V. Paul’s Review of The New Experts: Populist Elites and Technocratic Promises in Modi’s India.” Perspectives on Politics 23(1), 345–46.
Policy Analysis
India’s Digital Infrastructure Is Going Global. What Kind of Power Is It Building?, Tech Policy Press, July 2025
The UK’s Big Pitch: AI Innovation Over Accountability, Tech Policy Press, January 2025
India’s alternative facts: how the government of Narendra Modi invents its own kind of ‘experts’ to legitimise its policies, The Conversation (UK), 2024
Invisible Laborers: Essential Immigrant Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic. The Immigrant Learning Center Research Initiative, 2021
A Study of Bangalore’s Water Crisis: Key Findings and Policy Suggestions. International Waters Network, 2019
Other Engagement
Invited Presentation on AI Ethics in Public Services, Committee for Standards in Public Life (CSPL), University of Cambridge, 2025
Contributor, UNICRI Report on "Right- and left-wing violent extremist abuse of digital technologies in South America, Africa, and Asia", 2024
Interviewed for New Books Network with Dave O’Brien (Podcast), October 2024
Interviewed for “The Jarring Opulence of the Billionaire Ambani Wedding”, TIME Magazine, July 2024
Interviewed on BBC Scotland: The Nine discussing the Indian National Elections, June 2024
Interviewed for This Week, Those Books, June 2024
Tales from the Field: Theorizing the New Experts”, American Sociological Association Newsletter: Political Sociology, pp 15-16.
Alternative Logics of Ethno-Nationalism, Ideology, Theory, and Practice Blog, 2022
Beginning a New Conversation on Women, The Hindu, June 21, 2014.
Turning Water Challenges Into Opportunities. Brookings India Institutional Centre. New Delhi: Brookings India, 2014
Food, Glorious Food: India’s Obesity Epidemic, Business Standard, November 1, 2013.