Books

Sajjanhar, Anuradha. 2024. The New Experts: Populist Elites and Technocratic Promises. NY/London: Cambridge University Press.

Peer-Reviewed Articles (available on request)

Sajjanhar, Anuradha. 2022. “The Double-Sidedness of Hindutva: Inside the BJP’s Think Tanks”. Journal of Political Ideologies

Sajjanhar, Anuradha. 2021. “The New Experts: Populism, Technocracy, and the Politics of Expertise in Contemporary India”. Journal of Contemporary Asia.

Sajjanhar, Anuradha. 2021. “The Emergence of Political Consulting”. Economic and Political Weekly (link to pre-print)

Sajjanhar, Anuradha and Denzil Mohammed. 2021 “Invisible Labourers: Immigrant Essential Workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic”. The Immigrant Learning Center: Public Education Research Initiative.

In-Progress Manuscripts

“Populism” in The Oxford Handbook of Authoritarian Politics (Book Chapter). In Progress.

Sajjanhar, Anuradha. “AI in Governance: Giving Tech Leaders a Seat at the Policy Table”. In Progress.

Sajjanhar, Anuradha. “Paradigms of Political Life: Idealised Political and Anti-Political Figures”. In Progress.

Policy Analysis

The UK’s Big Pitch: AI Innovation Over Accountability, Tech Policy Press, 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

Turning Water Challenges Into Opportunities. Brookings India Institutional Centre. New Delhi: Brookings India, 2014

Other Engagement

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

Appearance 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.

Food, Glorious Food: India’s Obesity Epidemic, Business Standard, November 1, 2013.