gilles.verniers
Gilles Verniers
gilles.verniers@sciencespo.frGilles Verniers holds a PhD in political science (Sciences Po, 2016). His research focuses on South Asian politics, with a focus on Indian electoral politics and history. His most recent work focuses on political representation, gender and politics, the political sociology of public elites and the institutional exclusion of Muslims in India.
In addition to his research, he has taught courses on South Asian politics, India’s democracy, qualitative methods, political violence and histories of the far-right at Ashoka University, India, and at Amherst College, Massachusetts.
At Ashoka University, he founded the Trivedi Centre for Political Data, a research laboratory dedicated to producing open-access datasets on Indian elections and to conducting empirical research on Indian politics. He is a regular contributor to various Indian Media.
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Languages
French, English
- Gilles Verniers (2025), “Caste, Social Justice, and the Politics of Inclusion in the 2024 Indian General Election”, Indian Journal of Politics and Policy, Vol.5, 1, p. 87-110.
- Gilles Verniers (2024), “Why India’s Incumbent Candidates Struggle to Win Elections”, in How Indian Voters Decide (Ed., Milan Vaishnav), Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, p. 71-80.
- Gilles Verniers & Christophe Jaffrelot (2020), “A new party system or a new political system?”, Contemporary South Asia, 28:2.
- Gilles Verniers & Christophe Jaffrelot (2020), “The reconfiguration of India’s political elite: profiling the 17th Lok Sabha”, Contemporary South Asia, 28:2, 242-254.
- Gilles Verniers & Christophe Jaffrelot (2020), “The BJP’s 2019 election campaign: not business as usual”, Contemporary South Asia.
- Gilles Verniers (2018), "The Transformation of Backward Class Politics in Uttar Pradesh", Economic and Political Weekly, 68-73.
- Gilles Verniers (2018), "Conservative in Practice: The Transformation of the Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh", Studies in Indian Politics, 6(1): 1-16.
- Gilles Verniers & Francesca R. Jensenius (2017), "Studying Indian Politics with Large-scale Data: Indian Election Data 1961–Today", Studies in Indian Politics, 5(2): 269-275.
- Gilles Verniers, Oliver Heath & Sanjay Kumar (2015), "Do Muslim voters prefer Muslim candidates? Co-religiosity and voting behaviour in India", Electoral Studies, 38: 10-18.
- Gilles Verniers & Karthika Sasikumar (2013), “The India-US Nuclear Cooperation Agreement in Indian Domestic Politics”, Asian Survey, Vol. 54, number 3.
