Gyanesh Kudaisya

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Gyanesh Kudaisya is a historian of modern South Asia whose main research focuses on the contemporary history of India. He is associate professor in the South Asian Studies Programme at the National University of Singapore. He was the head of the South Asian Studies Programme from 2006 to 2010. He has published extensively on the post 1947 history of South Asia. His works include A Republic in the Making, India in the 1950s, which looks at the critical first decade of independent India.