ASIS MISTRY

About

Dr Asis Mistry is a Political Scientist working through South Asian empirical sites. He works on ethnicity, nationalism, democratic politics, critical theory, and decolonial epistemologies. He has published in journals like Asian Survey, Contemporary South Asia, Ethnicities, Asian Ethnicity, Political Studies Review, Contemporary Voice of Dalit, Socialist Perspective and Economic and Political Weekly. His books include The Idea of Injustice (Palgrave Macmillan) and Rethinking Social Science Research (Peter Lang).

Employment

• University of Calcutta Assistant Professor
  2020 - Present
• Kazi Nazrul University Faculty
  2015 - 2020

Education

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Publications (35)

• Governing the Electorate
  Voter Registration and Voter Registers: Theory, Awareness, Inclusion and Technology (Vol. II) 2026
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• The right side of history? Liberalism after progress: Williams D, Liberalism in Time: A History WilliamsD (2025) Liberalism in Time: A History. McGill-Queen’s Studies in the History of Ideas, 94. McGill-Queen’s University Press. ISBN: 978-0-2280-2626-6 (…
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  Political Studies Review 2026 DOI: 10.1177/14789299261450441
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• Whose nation, whose federalism? Disputed imaginaries of belonging in Nepal’s ethnic politics
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  Asian Ethnicity 2026 DOI: 10.1080/14631369.2026.2708070
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• Who Speaks for the Subaltern? Translation, Caste and the Mediation of Dalit Voice in Bengal
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  Contemporary Voice of Dalit 2026 DOI: 10.1177/2455328X261466424
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• Strategic inclusion or democratic transformation? Ethnic quotas in post-conflict Nepal
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  Ethnicities 2026 DOI: 10.1177/14687968261453713
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• Sacralising the state: Hindu nationalism, populist imaginaries, and the politics of belonging in post-monarchy Nepal
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  Contemporary South Asia 2026 DOI: 10.1080/09584935.2026.2668414
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• Genealogies of Tolerance
  Socialist Perspective 2026
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• Affective Archives and the Ethics of Listening
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  The Idea of Injustice: Power, Silence, and the Limits of Liberalism 2026 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-92-0187-7_8
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• Anti-Colonial Thought and the Refusal of Liberal Inclusion
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  The Idea of Injustice: Power, Silence, and the Limits of Liberalism 2026 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-92-0187-7_6
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• Bridging the Himalayas: Nepal's Evolving Geopolitical Strategy Between India and China
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  Contemporary Geopolitical Alignment in the Global South: Security, Peace and Sustainable Development 2026 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-81977-3_6
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• Bridging the Himalayas: Nepal’s Evolving Geopolitical Strategy Between India and China
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  Contemporary Geopolitical Alignment in the Global South Security Peace and Sustainable Development 2026 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-81977-3_6
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• Caste, Gender, and the Grammar of Exclusion
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  The Idea of Injustice: Power, Silence, and the Limits of Liberalism 2026 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-92-0187-7_7
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• Conclusion: Listening to Injustice---Beyond Liberalism and the Remaking of the Political
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  The Idea of Injustice: Power, Silence, and the Limits of Liberalism 2026 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-92-0187-7_10
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• Epistemic Injustice and the Politics of Voice
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  The Idea of Injustice: Power, Silence, and the Limits of Liberalism 2026 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-92-0187-7_5
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• Grounding Theory: Praxis, Refusal, and the Remaking of the Political
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  The Idea of Injustice: Power, Silence, and the Limits of Liberalism 2026 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-92-0187-7_9
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• Histories of Harm: Injustice as Structure, Not Failure
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  The Idea of Injustice: Power, Silence, and the Limits of Liberalism 2026 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-92-0187-7_4
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• Introduction: Why Injustice?
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  The Idea of Injustice: Power, Silence, and the Limits of Liberalism 2026 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-92-0187-7_1
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• Normative Silences and the Limits of Fairness
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  The Idea of Injustice: Power, Silence, and the Limits of Liberalism 2026 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-92-0187-7_3
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• The Idea of Injustice
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  2026 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-92-0187-7
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• The Liberal Imaginary and the Myth of Moral Consensus
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  The Idea of Injustice: Power, Silence, and the Limits of Liberalism 2026 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-92-0187-7_2
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